FLATS Council's Opposition Attitude Challenged
A definite movement to discourage the building of flats in certain of the more fashionable Sydney suburbs has begun, and is due to express itself in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney · Council & local affairs
Council & local affairs, 1926
4,841 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 243
Farewell to Health Officer Vogwell for Overseas Tribute From Lord Mayor
Mr. W. O. Vogwell, chief City Health Inspector, was the guest of his brother officers of the Health Department of the City Council, at a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Romantic Rise. From Newsboy to Mayor. Story of the Boys' Brigade
The early frowns of fortune have very often been the best security for her final smiles. The narrow surroundings from which not a few self-made mon have looked out upon life…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Legislative Council. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—During the present political crisis two theories have been advanced as to the position of the Governor with regard to the making of appointments to the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Up Till Midnight Lively Council Meeting Ratepayers Cheered Goulburn
Allegations and violent discussions kept the City Council up till after midnight, when the proposal to erect a now town hall for Goulburn was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →St. Marys Council Sunday Cricket Permitted About a Mad Bull, and the Clerk's Salary
The usual monthly meeting of St. Marys Council was hld on Monday evening last. There were present.—The Mayor (Ald. Brooker), and Ald…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →House of Hoboes Beer on the Lawn Last Phase of N.S.W. Legislative Council
IN THE LOBBIES THEY call Lang's new Legislative Councillors "The Twenty-five Hoboes," and if you have heard them make speeches, or joined them as soul-mates in a pint, you'll guess why. THIS DOESN'T SAY THAT there aren't decent fellows among…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Municipal Election Also Proposed Loans Poll
The ratepayers of Penrith Municipality have some very important matters to decide on Saturday next, Feb, 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Elections
Mr Alex. Cameron, the Reform party candidate to contest the municipal vacancy, and his upporeers will place their views before the ratepayers on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXPELLED Alderman Harrington
The Executive of the A.L.P. has expelled Alderman T. Harrington, late Mayor of Balmain, from the Labour Party. He was charged with violation…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Alderman Interested
A letter has been received from Mr. H. G. Polyblank, one of the newly-electcd aldermen, in which he says, incidentally:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Up to Shire Councillors
THE Royal Automobile Club urges the Shire and Council authorities in country districts to give more consideration to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alderman Give Presents to Themselves Story From Brisbane Brisbane
It has been ascertained that one of the last things the defunct Brisbane City Council did was for the retiring aldermen to present to themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Redhead Disaster Fund for Dependents Move by Council Newcastle
The Redhead Colliery disaster has caused widespread sympathy throughout the northern district, and many offers of assistance have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Billiards the British Empire Amateur Championship Australian Amateur Billiards Council: The Shailer Fund
Australia's chance of victory in the British Empire Amateur Billiard Championship is now the chief topic of conversation in our clubs…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Refuse Rots in Bondi Streets Putrid Food Means Disease and Death to Children Blowflies Breed in Millions by People's Homes Mayor Jackaman Has No Comment to Make
Putrid house refuse grilling in the hot sun; thick clouds of heavy, lazy blowflies hovering over it; uncovered garbage tins, each a prodigious, vile, hatchery of millions of the common, but deadly, house-fly; millions of giant maggots; filthy, uncared-for streets; the uncovered tins standing at the gates of the pretty little homes of the victimized ratepayers; rubbish tips in the centre of a by-way that is called and meant to be a public thoroughfare; stagnant sand on the people's bench; rotting fruit, crusts of bread, meat that is putrefying for the second or third time, all in the path…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What Is Waverley Council Going to Do About It? Last Season's Grain Greater Than Average For Past Ten Years Heaps of Old Wheat
The Acting Government Statistician (Mr. T. Waites) has issued a preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest of the current season, based upon returns…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labor Trouble League and Aldermen Defiance Resented
Paddington Council, consisting entirely of Labor aldermen, is likely to have a "no-confidence" motion passed against it at a special meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Abolition
A meeting will be held at the Coronation Hall. Bondi Junction to-night to protest against the proposed abolition of the Legislative Council. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →One Big Council
Harstville, Rockdale. Bexley, and Kogarah Councils will amalgamate, and form one big council, comprising the area between the George's and…
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