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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1932

3,889 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 195

To Attend Loan Council

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

THE Premier, accompanied by the Attorney-General (Mr. Lamaro), will leave Sydney to-morrow night for…

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Loan Council. Officials Leave Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 6

The Under-Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. C. R. Chapman) accompanied by Mr. T. D. Kelly, expenditure accountant, left Sydney last night for Melbourne to confer with State and…

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Economy Plan Council Talks of Dismissals

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

DEBATE was heated in St. Peters Council last night over a suggested economy scheme, involving the dismissal of four employees…

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Jackson Still Mayor, Says Shannon "Reform" Goes Slow with Works Labor's Protest

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 4

Numbers of proposals were submitted to the Works Committee of the City Council yesterday for urgent constructional and…

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Music in the Parks City Council' Wants Time

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 4

The ex-Lord Mayor, now plain Ald. (Joseph Jackson made a great[?] onthful yesterday about the…

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Greenwich Baths Council Won't Stop Road Drainage Inflow

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

Although the health officer stated that the Greenwich baths were polluted with foul water from a nearby road drain, the Lane Cove…

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If Lang Wills It May Be a Snag Holding Out On His Figures? Loan Council

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Mr. Lang willing, a special sub-committee of Under-Treasurers will to-day analyse State finances and…

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Bruce Dictatorship Beasley Warns East Sydney of Trap Laid by Nats. to Enforce Policy Rejected in 1929 Arbitration Plot is Revealed Drastic Wage Cuts Are Planned Pressure From Loan Council Great Speech Cheered to Echo

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 1

CLAIMING that the weeks of futile blundering by the Lyons Government, pending the arrival bade of S. M. Bruce, dearly, proved that the policy of the new Government is the Bruce policy that the electors rejected so emphatically in 1929, Mr. J. A. Beasley, Federal leader, opened the A.L.P. campaign in support of Ald. E. J. Ward in East Sydney, at the Paddington Town Hall last night…

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Scorts and Socouting Lord Mayor Interested Lord Mayor Interested

The World's News · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 23

BY virtue of his office as the first citizen of Sydney, the Lord Mayor is a member of the Council of Control of the Boy Scouts Association. On the…

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Tea and Biscuits Council's Unique Treat for Ratepayers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 5

TIMES have changed in the municipal world. Not so long ago the councils were much freer in the distribution of refreshments to…

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Preliminary Plans Loan Council Gets Ready States' Finance Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 6

In further preparation for the meeting of the Loan Council, Treasury officials from the various States conferred to-day in Melbourne…

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Naming a Bridge. Brisbane Council. Queensland's First Governor. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 10

Numerous names were suggested at a meeting to-day of the Brisbane City Council, which held ballots to decide a suitable name to be conferred on the new bridge over the Brisbane…

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Bundle of Letters Stock Route Scandal Legislative Council Case Tortured Stock

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 7

The latest infamy of the Transport Board is to close stock routes near railway lines, so, as to force graziers to move their stock by rail. Instead…

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Loan Council. Queensland Policy. Not a Penny Borrowed. Mr. Moore in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 11

The Premier of Queensland (Mr. Moore), who passed through Sydney yesterday, en route to the meeting of the Loan Council in Melbourne, said that the attitude of his…

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Bowral Municipal Finances. Bowral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 12

The town clerk submitted a statement to the Bowral Municipal Council, showing that the loss in revenue, owing to new exemptive legislation, will aggregate £128 per annum. The…

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Bavin Implores Loan Council to Act No Money for Lang Govt. Another Fishing Trip With Latham in Vic. Pros and Cons Melbourne, Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 6

Mr. T. R. Bavin, leader of the New South Wales Opposition, who is reported to have slipped away secretly from Sydney a…

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Alderman in Trouble

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 3

Alderman Hewson's statement that the unemployed should grow their own vegetables instead of raising money by means of a collection has raised a hornet's nest…

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Municipal and Shire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 10

With 9 down for 385, Cumberland closed, and Ryde opened their first innings with Shaw and Partridge. The latter skied Ellis and Randall took a…

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Proposed Camp Lake Parramatta Aldermen's Views

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 5

The question of establishing a camp at Lake Parramatta, under the joint control of the council and the N.R.M.A., was discussed by Parramatta's civic fathers on…

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Ex.Mayor's Challenge

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 3

On the placid waters of the Parramatta River, ex-Mayor Briggs, whose party was routed at the recent election, is seeking hard to forget—and forgive. His launch,…

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