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Council & local affairs, 1929

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Woman Claims £2000 From Council Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 5

Claiming £2000 damages, Ellen Morice a married woman, of East Brunswick entered an action in the Civil Court to-day against the Mayor,…

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Smell Risk Council Takes It L[?] Factory

Evening News · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 5

LID[?] Council recently granted [?] D[?] Ltd, [?] a huge soap factory and [?] works at North Ltd…

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Right of Choice Council Loan Work "Men Not Unsuitable"

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 14

Referring to statements made at the Kogarah Council meeting last night by the town clerk (Mr. Leighton--advising council to turn down a…

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Miners, Watch Your Step! Don't Be Stampeded Council's Edict

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 5

MINERS should read carefully the following statement, issued last night, which counsels caution in the face of determined efforts to stampede…

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"Illegal Use" Station Hospital Land Council Indignant "No Mussolini Attitude"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 11

"I don't wish to adopt a Mussolini attitude and force the State Hospital to hand the land back to us, but I certainly want that area restored to the…

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Waverley Mayor Answers L.g. Minister Bondi Baths Delay Fresh Water Every Night "Dept. Too Slow for Progress?"

Evening News · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 15

THE mayor of Waverley, Aid. D. Hunter, vigorously renewed his attack on the Local Government Department to-day for having held up the construction of £80,000 baths at Bondi…

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Salvation Army. Council Meeting. Witnesses to be Heard. LONDON, Feb. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 11

The High Council of the Salvation Army is sitting again at Sunbury to-day, instead of at London, as previously announced. It is understood that both sides will have…

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Gen. Booth Deposed High Council's Solid Vote Commr. Higgins Is Successor London

Evening News · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 1

DY 52 votes to 3, with four members abstaining from voting, the High Council of the Salvation Army, sitting at Sunbury on Thames to-day, found that General Booth was unfit to continue in office…

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"Farcical Position at George's R." Govt. Action Wanted Bridge Delays Anger Council Toll Slug for Pedestrians

Evening News · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 17

NOT satisfied with the statements of the Under Secretary for Public Works. Mr. The [?] connection with complaints about the slowness of the of the George's there bridge, Sutherland [?] Council decided last night to press…

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New General Elected By Salvation Army Council Booth "Unfit" Higgins to Succeed Tears Flow London

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 1

By 52 votes to 5, the High Council of the Salvation Army adjudicated General Bramwell Booth unfit to retain the leadership of the world-wide organisation. Four members abstained from voting…

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Wasted Time Small Talk Kink Alderman Protests

Evening News · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 7

ALD Skinner complained to Rockdale Council last night that hundreds of trivial of trivial complaints were placed before the council, and the…

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Council Meeting

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 3

In order to get though he [?] volume of [?] including [?] [?]chedule, the council helf [?] special meeting on Wednesday last…

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Municipal Council Supports Timber Men RICHMOND, Vic

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 2

At a meeting of the Richmond Municipal Council last week it was decided to instruct the surveyor to procure timber only from mills which…

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Jemalong Shire's Rates. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 14

Mr. R. T. Hole, representing the Minister for Local Government, inquired into the Jemalong Shire Council's proposal to increase the rate from 2d in the £ to 2½d for 1929 and…

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Sutherland Shire Ex-service Men’s Recreation Club

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 3

On Monday night next, 18th i[?]st., the above club will hold its last commitlee meeting of the year, and. it will also be the last night on which…

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Country News. Noisy Council Meeting. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 14

There was a stormy meeting of the Bathurst Council, when the application of the power-house engineer (Mr. J. Muston) for permission to withdraw his resignation Was…

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Woman Loses Claim Against Council Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 4

The claim by Mrs. Mary Ellen Morice, for 12000 from Brunswick City Council, for damages caused to her property by a stormwater drain…

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Loan for Kogarah Council Should it Be Accepted?

The Propeller · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 4

The Department of Labour and Industry and the Local Government Department informed Kogarah Council this week that it was prepared to lend it…

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Mayor Kelly Gets His Fine Paid “Labor” Govt’s Kindness to Scab Leader BOWEN, Feb. 4

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 3

J. E. Kelly, our local butcher, Mayor, and emblem of loyalty to the King, has been convicted for making false income tax returns for the year…

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Balmain, .Catamaran Miners’ Council Endorses Slave Conditions Full Description Next Week

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 2

The Miners’ Council, after hearing a pop-eyed report from H. Doran, a discredited ex-“Red,” decided last week that conditions under the collective…

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