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Sydney · Council & local affairs
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In the Legislative Council a motion by Mr. Willis in effect to cancel the appointment of the select committee on child endowment was defeated by 39 votes to 29…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →By six votes to two Penrith Council, on Tuesday evening, defeated a motion to rescind Council's decision to supply electricity to St. Marys. Council's electrical engineer, Mr C. Roberts, reported strongly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Legislative Assembly was in uproar during the discussion on the Legislative Council's amendments to the Liquor Bill yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The City Council proposals to acquire a metal quarry seem to have died a natural death. At next Tuesday's meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A WELL-KNOWN Manly identity is Alfred Walter Pearce, an alderman of the local Council, and popularly known as "Dick" by the boys of the Village. Last week a young…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The scope of Imperial legislation affecting the Dominions was the subject chosen by Professor J. H. Morgan, Professor of Constitutional Law,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One scandal follows another in rapid succession whenever the affairs of the City Municipal Council come under review. The burking of the inquiry into specific instances of joyriding by aldermen in municipal cars, driven by chauffeurs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Labour aldermen, at a caucus meeting decided to have Mr. James Johnstone, manager of the Richmond Main colliery, appointed as expert to advise the City Council…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MURWILLUMBAH, Monday. Mr. A. P.. Black, of South Murwillumbah, was elected to fill the vacancy in the Murwillumbah Municipal Council brought about by the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →An amusing incident occurred at the fortnightly meeting of the Boulder Municipal Council last night. The Mayor, Mr. Rainsford, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SAMUEL TOLBART GREEN. [?] was charged at the Central Court, to-day, with having while Two's Clerk at BPORT OF FREMANTLE.ath, concurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Brigadier-General J. H. Morgan (Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London), lecturing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Professor J. H. Morgan, lecturing on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, at the University of London, described the committee's reports as "the treasury of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—Apropos of the reported statement of his Excellency the Governor, "That the Legislative Council should be elective," might I draw attention to a proposal put forward at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →That Darlington, although perhaps the smallest municipality in New South Wales, is also one of the most progressive, is shown by the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Evidence of scandalous misuse of civic motor cars by "joy-riding" Labor aldermen in the City Council has been forbidden by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DUBBO.—At a meeting of the Talbragar Shire Council the prevalence and over-increasing spread of stinkwort, now generally looked upon as one of the worst of the noxious weeds,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the Legislative Council, the President (Mr. Flowers) announced that the Governor had assented to the income Tax (Amendment) Bill…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The regular meeting of the Eastwood Council was held on Wednesday, 23rd February, when the Mayor (Alderman R. Ball) presided over a full Council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The fortnightly meeting of the Ryde Council wan held on Wednesday last, the Mayor (Alderman C. Dyer) presided, and all the aldermen, with tile exception of…
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