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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1926

4,841 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 243

Sydney Labor Council Decides to Fight Literature Ban

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 1

The N.S.W. Trades and Labor Council has decided to accept the. challenge of the Lang Government and fight for the unrestricted right of working class organisations to sell…

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A.l.p. Trade Unions. Labour Council's Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 15

The attitude of the trade union movement to the Australian Labour party will be the subject of a special report by the Sydney Trades and labour Connell to the State trade…

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Hotels First Council's "Charity" Refund Overpaid Rates Redfern's Decision

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 17

Practically all the money that Redfern Council has available for charity tills year is to be paid to hotelkeepers. When it was decided by the Privy…

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Council of Jewish War Memorial, London. Max Michaelis Schoolarship

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

Applications are invited for the Max Michaelis Scholarship of the value of £200 per annum, tenable for three years at the Universities of Oxford or…

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The Legislative Council. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 10

Sir,—Doubtless many thousands of the electors of this State, and of other States too, will read with astonishment the "pledge" set forth in your issue of to-day, which the 25…

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Returned Soldiers. Appeal to the Council. "Day" for a Collection

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 12

Mr. W. T. Kirwan, hon. secretary for the United Returned Soldiers' Fund, referring yesterday to the report of the proceedings of the finance committee of the City Council on…

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Council Still in Playful Mood Opposing Fair Rents Lively Interludes Good Progress Made

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 5

IMMEDIATELY the Legislative Council met yesterday, Mr. Willis rose and delivered the first blow…

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No Pairs! Caucus Repudiates Agreement Labor Platform First Another Blow at Legislative Council

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 13

"That, in view of the vital importance to the Labor movement in passing Government legislation, and as the planks of the Labor platform must come before every other consideration, this party will not recognise any pairs given in the Legislative Council…

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Straight-out Defeat Vital Clause in Electoral Bill Council Shows Its Teeth Provision for Contingent Vote

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 1

By 30 to 29 votes the Legislative Council last night defeated the Government on a vital issue in the Electoral Bill, 'first past the post' provision, was the rock on which the Government, came to grief. The Council's original…

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44-Hour Week Granville Municipal Employees

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 2

In every case where practicable, Granville Council has arrangement to allow its employees Saturday morning free in accordance with the recent Forty-four…

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No Increase Granville Municipal Rate The Cat Nearly Escaped

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 2

Granville Council will not make an increase in the municipal rate for 1926. There will be many sights of relief. What transpired behind the closed…

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The Threatened Municipal Elections

The St George Call · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 2

At last Tuesday’s meeting of Bexley Council, a letter was received from the Local Government Association inviting the Mayor to make one of the…

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Municipality of Bexley. Estimates—general Fund

The St George Call · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 5

Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1919, the following Estimate for the year 1926 has…

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Municipality of Bexley. Estimates — Special Public Works Loan Account

The St George Call · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 5

Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act, the following Estimate for the year 1926 has been…

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Municipal Franchise

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 4

Sir.--I am, like many other Laborites, tickled to death with the [?]dent protest against adult franchise by the Bumbles win run the…

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New Election For Municipalities Bill Before Assembly

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 8

Strong objection to the provision in the Local Government Amendment Bill, whereby municipal councils will be dissolved in…

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Government Is Beaten in the Council Single Seat Electorates Absent Labor Men Give Opponents Margin of One Bill Sent to Committee

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1926 · page 5

THE GOVERNMENT WAS DEFLATED in the Legislative Council last night on the Electoral Bill. MUCH ACTIVITY HAD BEEN noticed in the Opposition ranks during the evening, but even in important divisions they were not able…

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Mount Wilson Main Road Shire Council Approached

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 16

Following is a copy of a letter which has been forwarded to the Blue Mountains Shire Council by the Mount Wilson Progress Association:--…

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Penrith Council

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Penrith Council was held on Tuesday evening last in the Council Chambers. A large volume of business was put through,…

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Mayor's Minute Many Important Matters Dealt With

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 3

The Mayor of Penrith (Ald. J. J. Price) presented the following minute at last Tuesday's meeting of Council: (1)I have to report that during the…

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