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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1931

4,238 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 212

UNEMPLOYMENT. More Acute Than Ever. Statement by Mayor of Mascot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 14

Addressing a meeting at Daceyville, called to consider the plight of the Daceyville Crown tenants, Alderman Alexander (Mayor of Mascot) said that if the unemployment…

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WHEAT. Request for £l,000,000 From Loan Council. Labour Caucus Acts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 13

At a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour party yesterday it was decided that immediate application should be made to the Loan Council by the Premier (Mr. Lang) for a…

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Country People's Growing Indignation Clamour for Reform Producers Advisory Council Stirs Up Smouldering Fire Nationalist and Labor Join Hands

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 1

INDIGNATION at the failure of our Governments to ward off the threatening financial crisis is spreading like fire through the country. For months…

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How Mayor's Dignity Was Upset PARIS

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 4

WHEN the Mayor of Montor Mentier, failed to return from a hunting trip, his worried wife had a search made. The Mayor was found…

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Brush with Death Mayor In Tight Corner PARIS

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 4

The Mayor of Montormentier has lost all his mayoral dignity. His wife became worried when he did not return…

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"Staggering" Losses in City Rents Town Clerk's Report to Council £200,000 Down

The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 2

"The Town Clerk's report will be staggering to the citizens, not so much for the amounts of the defalcation in the city's rent…

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A Bitter Pill For Mr. Lang To Swallow Must Now Approach Loan Council

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 6

A review of the past week's work in the State Parliament can hardly be pleasing to those who have lost their jobs,…

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Alderman Charged. Alleged Breach of Local Government Act. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

Norman Clarence McLennan, taxi-driver, an alderman of South Grafton Municipal Council, was charged at Grafton Police Court on the information of Gerald Walter Fitzgerald with…

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Labor's Grip on the City Garden May Soon be Lord Mayor

Daily Pictorial · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

Labor aldermen of the City Council say that a Greater Sydney Bill has been drafted, and will be made law at the first opportunity!…

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Council Rents. Town Clerk's Report. Assets Department Criticised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 7

Sharp criticism of the loose methods of the assets department in collection [?] the council's rentals is contained in a report by the Town Clerk (Mr. W. G. Layton) te be considered at…

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Combined Club Leads Randwick-Kensington Athletes Olympic Council

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

ANOTHER round of the interclub competitions was successfully contested by the N.S.W Amateur Athletic Association…

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Someone Got Easy Money Big Shortages In Council Rates

Daily Pictorial · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4

As far as is known, only £851 out of over £2000 short in City Council rent collections has been accounted for. Who got the other £1100 odd?…

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Greater Sydney Request By Labor Aldermen

Evening News · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 3

A DEPUTATION representing the labor caucus of the City Council will wait on the Minister for Local Government. Mr. M'Kell, to-morrow, to…

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Payment of Aldermen. Estimate of Annual Cost

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 8

It is estimated that a system of paying aldermen and councillors, as proposed by the Labour conference would cost £70 000 a year. Mr. E. C. Bluett, secretary of the Local…

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Dundas Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

There was a full attendance of aldermen at the regular meeting of the council on 21st instant. Accounts to £1403/17/9 were passed for…

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Eastwood Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

The regular fortnightly meeting of the Eastwood Council was held on 21st inst. Apologies were received from Aldermen McBeath and Poole. All others were…

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The Loan Council

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

It is curious how the original promise of Federation is being inexorably forced upon the people by the stress of circumstances. The Institution of the Loan Council is a case in point. Paced with the deluge of loans falling due in too brief a period for the usual…

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Outspoken Mayor "One or Two Grunters at Eastwood"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

Alderman Matthews, Mayor of Eastwood, has a reputation for "calling a spade a spade," and he generally does it with a forcefulness that leaves no doubts in the…

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Riots Calcutta Extremists Mayor Arrested Lathis Win Calcutta

The Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 1

Calcutta got a taste this afternoon of what Bombay is thoroughly accustomed to when the police were called…

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Privy Council Appeal. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 9

The Judicial Committe of the Privy Council has allowed, with costs, the appeal of the United States Shipping Board versus the steamer St. Albans…

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