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Council & local affairs, 1927

5,295 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 250

State Session. Liquor Bill. Restored by Council. Tax Exemption

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 16

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier brought down a bill to exempt the dividends of co-operative companies from income tax. The Workers' Compensation…

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S. Coast Labor Council Miners Stand Out Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 6

By eleven vote to two (Balmain and Keria dissentients), the Miners' Delegates Board decided against co-operating with the Wollongong Labor League in its…

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Congress Convened Important to Unionists Trades Hall Council January 27, 1927

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 10

To the Secretaries of Trade Unions. Dear Comrades,--I have been instructed by the above Council to invite your Union to send…

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Liquor Bill Is Approved Legislative Council Wine Bars Benefit Forces Marshalled

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

SUPPORT for the Liquor Bill in the Legislative Council swung to such an opposite extreme last night that the second reading was carried by 34 votes…

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Council Kills Endowment Voting: 34 to 31 Sent to Committee Minister Appeals in Vain

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 1

AS was forecast by the motion of Mr. Farrar on Thursday night, the Family Endowment Bill was referred to a select committee for inquiry…

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Problems for Caucus New Wage ? Council Upsets Plans

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1927 · page 2

The decision of the Upper House to refer the Child Endowment Bill to a select committee has created confusion in the…

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All Godivas Soon Coventry Mayor's Dig London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 1

The Mayor of Coventry, lamenting the high municipal rates, declared that a modern Lady Godiva would relieve the burden, says the "Weekly…

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Council Refuses Job Private Co. Favored

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 1

FOLLOWING its decision to make roads for a firm of subdividers at a cost of £3774, Granville Council received a protest from a firm of…

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Manly Council. Loan Expenditure. a Novel Proposal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 11

Alderman Bath has given notice that he will move the following motion at Tuesday's meeting of the council:— 'That with a view to ascertaining whether…

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Basic Wage Caucus May Decide Council's Action Resented

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 7

Surprise and resentment were expressed during the week-end by members of the Parliamentary Labor Party at the decision of the…

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Fairfield Aldermen Deliver Addresses

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 3

The members of the Fairfield Council, at the invitation of the Fairfield West Progress Association, proceeded to that centre on Tuesday evening for the…

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Domain Baths Aldermen's Friends

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 12

Challenged by a statement that aldermen had secured for their friends free admission to the Domain swimming baths during the contests…

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Over the Creek Proposed Bridge Aldermen's Views

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 6

"I am very much in favor of the building of the bridge over Duck Creek at the foot of Rawson and Wellington streets, joining Lidcombe and…

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Bad Fruit. on City Stalls. Alderman's Allegation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 11

Alderman Marks, at the health committee of the City Council yesterday, asked that in future the patrolmen employed by the City Council should report on the bad fruit that…

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At Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 4

Alderman Briggs, Mayor of Auburn, presided for a short While only at the Council meeting last week. He left to attend another function. Alderman…

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Council Property Conveniences Lacking

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 12

Chinese occupiers of premises near the city markets area cannot be compelled to provide conveniences which are lacking in council buildings, Ald…

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Craft Unions Labor Council's Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 5

By the action of the Sydney Trades and Labor Council in urging employees in the various railway workshops and depots to join craft and sectional…

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New Stables Lidcombe Council Proposal

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 3

Lidcombe Council has agreed to appoint a committee of five, to confer with Council's officers, with a view to preparing plans and specifications for…

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EJECTED Chinese Market Forestallers Council Order

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 9

Following repeated applications by local gardeners for space in the Municipal Markets to sell their vegetables, about 30 Chinese…

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Forestallfrs. Evicted From Markets. Council's Action

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 11

City Council officials, this morning, evicted forestallers from their stands within the municipal vegetable market and turned them over to market gardeners…

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