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Council & local affairs, 1926

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League Crisis Seats on Council Rival Claimants London, February 11

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 1

Replying to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons Sir Austen Chamberlain said that Germany's application for…

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Personographs Auburn's Mayor

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1926 · page 10

FIGHTS, frights, thrills, burglaries, and hold-ups have do unnerving effect on George C. Gollan, Mayor of Auburn…

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Germany Suspicious League Council Seats London

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1926 · page 1

"A breach of faith" is how Dr. Stresemann's newspaper, the "Taglische Rundschau," describes" the proposed creation of new seats on the…

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Fate of Council Is It the Last Session? Lang Confident

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1926 · page 2

Unless the calculations of the Premier (Mr. Lang) are based on undue optimism, the current session of Parliament will be the last in which the…

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Municipal and Shire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 8

Lane Cove A, 91 and 53, beat North Sydney, [?]0 and 43; Northern District, 171 and none for 52, heat Randwick, 55 and 153; Gordon, five for 141, closed, and five for 117, beat Paddington, 67 ond 185; Lane Cove B,…

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Insanitary Depot Council Fined Mayor Indignant But Penitent Braidwood

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 4

At the Police Court the Braidwood Counters was Proceeded against by an officer of the Board of Health, on three charged [?] out of alleged insanitary…

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Mayor's Compliments Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 5

In presenting his report to a meeting of citizens in connection with the New Lambton effort on behalf of the Walisend Hospital, the Mayor, Aid…

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Murrumburrah Tories One Sane Alderman Murrumburrah

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 8

The Murrumburrah Council decided to join in the Tory protest against the abolition of the Legislative Council, but not before Alderman K. Smith…

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Dubbo Municipal Council. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 12

At the municipal council meeting, a motion was carried that water meters be installed in all houses except those with very small lawns. A motton that the council should…

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Elizabeth Street Lord Mayor's Minute

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 5

In a minute issued to city aldermen during the week-end the Lord Mayor (Ald. Stokes) asks the City Council to give immediate consideration to the…

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Meat Council's Proposals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 9

Referring to the statement that two Queensland graziers had left Brisbane to protest to the Prime Minister against what is described as "a proposal of the Australian…

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Women for the Council

The Labor Daily · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 4

Sir,--I have learned through the columns of the "Labor Daily" that the Royal assent ban been given to the Hill enabling women to sit In the…

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"Treachery" Council Abolition Lang Discredits Rumors

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 11

Rumors were current at Parliament House to-day that certain members of the Legislaitve Council who voted for the Council Abolition Bill last session…

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P.p. Union Richmond River Council

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 5

LISMORE.--The annual meeting of the Richmond district council of the Primary Producers' Union adopted a resolution congratulating Victorian…

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"Death to Locarno" France's Diplomacy Packing League Council London

The Sun · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 1

French diplomacy, in aiming to counter Germany's entry to the League of Nations by a scheme for packing the League Council with…

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The League. Council Members. Mooted Increase. Continental Opinion. LONDON, Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 11

The Council of the League of Nations has fixed March 8 as the date for the extraordinary meeting of the Assembly to receive an opinion from the Council on Germany's…

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Bridge-builders or Lunatics? Sarcastic Alderman

Evening News · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 12

"The Railway Department seems to do as it likes with our roads. If we built a bridge like this one we would be told we were lunatics…

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Aldermen of City and Randwick Councils at Cricket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 14

THE LORD MAYOR SENDS ONE TO THE BOUNDARY. ALDERMAN COURTENAY'S UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT…

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£10,000 Road Alderman's Charge a Willoughby Job

Evening News · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 12

ALD. H. W. CLARKE protested at Willoughby Council last night against the proposal of the Mayor, Ald. Forsyth, 10 contract…

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City Council v Randwick Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 14

The City Municipal Council played a cricket match with the Randwick Municipal Council on Coogee Oval yesterday, Randwick winning by 10 runs., City woo the toss and elected to bat, and during the innings,…

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