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Council & local affairs, 1929

4,700 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 235

Municipal Tit-bits

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 2

The council meeting on 17th instant and attended by a full team of aldermen, and with a full programme, Mayor S. G. Small kept them well up to the collar…

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Wild Scenes Glebe Council Affairs More Charges 'Mayor Turned Policeman'

The Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 16

Wild scenes were enacted again last night at a special meeting of the Glebe Council…

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Glebe Storm Theft Allegation Mayor's Charge

Evening News · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 8

STORMY scenes marked a special meeting of Glebe Council last night, when a committee was appointed to inquire into a statement…

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Council of Churches

The Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 16

The N.S.W. Council of Churches will hold a united service in the Pitt-street Congregational Church on Anzac Day from 12 to 12.45. Sir Charles…

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Erskineville a One Man Council

Evening News · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 8

BECAUSE the Town Clerk is going on a month's vacation [?] Council will not meet until he comes back…

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Council Donations No Money for Roads

Evening News · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 8

A RATEPAYER complained to Marrickville council last night that white council did not mind donating funds to f[?] and other outside purposes it falied…

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Glebe Council. Dismissal of Employees. Remarkable Scene

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 12

A special meeting of the Glebe Council was held last night, for the purpose of giving the Mayor (Alderman Walsh) an opportunity of substantiating charges made by him at…

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Sports That Can. and Sports That Cant City Council Leave (To the Editor)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 8

Sir,--It was with deep regret, I read the article dealing with the closing of Pyrmont Baths. I am not [?] as I have previously had a dose of this Town…

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Cost of Winning Coal Should Be 9- to 10- a Ton Small Users Pay About £3 Experts' Reports to City Council

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 6

THE following article has been [?]…

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Desert Keeps Grim Secret of Missing Aviator Atlanta Searches All Day Without Success Did Hitchcock Make for the Overland Telegraph Route? Landing Ground 40 Miles Away All Water Has Dried Up, Reports Pilot Brain Lonely 'Plane and Dead Aviator; Desert's Terrible Tableau Last Council of Despair

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 1

A WEARY search all day long in the deadening glare of the desert sun.. ... no sign of the missing Hitchcock .... just a glance at that terrible tableau, of the Westland monoplane, standing stark and lonely in the sand, with a sun-blackened body stretched out beneath one wing…

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Expulsion? Move Against Aldermen Glebe Labor League

The Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 3

A vote of confidence in the Mayor of Glebe (Alderman Walsh) was carried by an overwhelming majority at last…

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Aldermen at Canberra? New Suggestion for Representation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 5

The election of Dr. Alcorn, of Canberra, to the third Commissionership at the Federal Capital has aroused further discussion…

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Builds Own Roadway Parkes Farmer Didn't Wait for Shire: Concrete Strips

Referee · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 17

What may become the only solution of the road problem in the buck country arras, comes from Parkes. N.S.W., where a farmer has laid…

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New States. Dr. Page Aroused. Attacks Provincial Council Scheme. ARMIDALE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 17

The proposal for the establishment in northern New South Wales of a system of government by provincial councils was vigorously attacked by the Federal…

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Country News Killed by Page Provincial Council Move New State Wrangle Armidale

The Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 7

Though the New State Convention will not conclude till this afternoon, the delegates now have little interest in the…

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Scouts Attacked by L'hardt Alderman

Evening News · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 9

THAT Boy Scouts destroyed the natural beauty of all places they visited was the statement of Aid. Dyer at Leichhardt Council last night. when the…

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Council Matters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 13

The appeal of the president of the New South Wales Bowling Association to howers of the State to subscribe to a fund to assist the bowling clubs in Launceaton, whose greene were destroyed by the recent…

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Council of Churches

Evening News · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 9

A united service under the auspices of the Council of Churches of N.S.W. was held in the Pitt-stret Congregational Church at noun to-day, and was…

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Labour Council. Faction Fight

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 9

Supporters of the A.L. P. executive on the Trades and Labour Council scored a decisive victory last night when Mr. E. R. Voigt defeated Mr J. Kavanagh, the Communis…

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Conciliation Committee. City Council Employees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 6

On the application of the Municipal Council of Sydney variations have been made in the award made by the City Council Employees' Conciliation Committee for salaried officers of…

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