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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1929

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Local Water Rates Council Will Prosecute

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 7

At Tuesday night's meeting of Fairfield Council, the town clerk reported that on January 2, 1929, the rate notices were issued to the many persons liable for…

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Week End Stalls Cabra-Vale Council Assents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 6

G. F. Monaghan wrote to Cabra-Vale Council asking permission to erect a portable stall on Liverpool-road on Saturdays and Sundays…

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Widows' Pensions Amending Bill in the Council

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 5

Business in the Legislative Council yesterday was confined to the passing through its second reading and Committee stages of the Widows Pensions…

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Health Menace Ryde Garbage Council Takes Hint

Evening News · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 8

WHEN Ryde Council decided to dump the garbage of its extensive municipality in the discussed brick pit in the local park, it hoped it was…

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Wet Workmen Wait for Pay Council Complaint

Evening News · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 8

THAT it was unfair for a section of employees to be dismissed owing to wet weather, while others engaged on similar works were able to carry…

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Council of Jewish Women of New South Wales

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 4

At the general meeting of the Council of Jewish Women which was held at the Maccabean Hall on February 4th, interstate and…

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Alleged Laxity. South Grafton Council. Critical Report. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 12

Inspector W. R. Wylie, who inquired into the suspension by the South Grafton Municipal Council, of its health inspector, Mr. P. J. Plunkett, says in his report that…

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Italians Bombed in Melbourne New Worry for Manly Council

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 16

BOWLS FOR OLD MEN ONLY? -- Those who said so should revise their opinion after considering this picture, taken yesterday during pennant games at Victoria Park. PLAYING AT 6 A.M. in the A.I.F. Golf Cup…

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A Lady's Dress Paint and the Council Lithgow

The Sun · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 17

A newly-painted seat in the Lithgow Park, which did not it was alleged, bear the customary "Wet Paint" sign, was responsible for an application to the…

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Views of Our Readers Holroyd Council (To the Editor)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 19

Sir,—I preface my reply to Alderman Duke, by stating that my only knowledge of the doings of Holroyd Council is per medium of the "Argus". Alderman Duck…

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Mr. L. T. Courtenay. Honoured by Citizens. Future of City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 10

Speakers at a luncheon in honour of Mr. L. T Courtenay, ah ex-aldorman of the City Council and a member of the Local Government Association, given at David Jones…

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City in Darkness. Strike at Broken Hill. Municipal Employees. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 11

A general strike is in progress among members of the Municipal 'employees' Union, The mon affected are engaged in the electricity works, sanitary services, and parks…

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In Chambers. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Stephen.) Kogarah Municipal Election. Ex parte Matthews, re Harslett and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 8

An application was made ex parte by Mr. Ruudell Miles instructed by Mr. J. K. W. Cowie), on behalf of William hency Matthews, formerly an alderman of the Kogarah…

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Lismore Municipal Aerodrome. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 February 1929 · page 12

The Lismore Municipal Council proposes to raise a special loan of £5000 for the establishment of an aerodrome. The district engineer of the Public Works Department opened an…

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Labor Aldermen Buy Black Timber Lithgow

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 3

The local Municipal Council, composed of—with one exception—Labor aldermen, has just decided to accept the recommendation of its works…

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Shire Valuations

The Land · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 16

"Ratepayer" writes complaining that the Shire Council doubled the Unimproved Capital Value without notice and asks has it power to do this.—He…

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Council Juniors

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 8

Miss [?]. Rose presided at a meeting of the Council juniors at the Maccabean Hall on Monday night, February 23th; when, it was announced that the recent…

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Yanko Shire Appeal Against Valuations

The Land · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 6

Valuations recently made in the Yanko Shire, which came into effect this year, show increases as follows: A riding, 20 per cent., B riding, 100…

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Shire Valuations Now Every Six Years

The Land · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 7

Formerly, valuation of the whole of the land within a Shire or Municipality was done at least once in three years. The council appointed a…

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A Mountain Road Shire Problem at Dorrigo

The Land · Friday 1 March 1929 · page 5

Probably nowhere in the State does road construction and maintenance present a more difficult problem than on the scrub hills of the North Coast…

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