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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1932

3,889 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 195

More Light Holroyd's Need Alderman's Argument

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 2

The installation of additional street lights was strongly urged by Alderman Ferguson at Holroyd Council on Tuesday. The…

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American Firm's Tender Alderman Criticises Colleagues

The Sun · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 7

Alderman Tresidder, at a meeting of the Works Committee of the City Council, to-day, criticised his colleagues in the Reform Party for…

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Fine Effort For Mayor's Relief Fund

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 3

Nine hundred people crowded into the Granville Town Hall and two hundred had to be turned away when Mrs. George Hawkins organised a high-class…

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Eastwood Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 4

By a majority vote of four to two, Aldermen Matthews, and Pickford being absent, Eastwood Council decided at its last meeting that, as an experiment for…

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Empire Day "Should Stick to Original Date," Says Holroyd Alderman

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 5

That Empire Day celebrations be held in the municipality on May 24, as a gesture of loyalty, was suggested by Alderman Lane at Holroyd Council…

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Ermington-Rydalmere Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 4

Notwithstanding the fact that a meeting had been held just a week previously, there was an agenda paper that kept the Aldermen of Ermington and…

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Baulkham Hills Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 4

The regular meeting of the Baulkham Hills Shire Council was held last Tuesday, all of the councillors being in attendance…

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Mayor Cheetham Didn't Vote Cussen Asks Why

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 2

Alderman Cussen was a little peeved at Auburn Council last week. He was peeved because the Mayor refused to vote on a matter in which he was…

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Around the Councils Dundas Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 4

Alderman Mobbs, who is away on his annual holidays, was the only absentee from the regular meeting of the Dundas Council last Wednesday evening…

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Nyngan Council Anti-lyons Nyngan

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 5

At the municipal council meeting the following resolution was carried unanimously:--"Nyngan Municipal Council voices…

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"JERRY-BUILT" Toongabbie House Council Rejects

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 2

"Decidedly of the class known as jerry-built," was Building Inspector Haigh's comment at Holroyd Council on Tuesday, when A. R. Cromer applied…

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Still Falling Granville's Municipal Finance

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 1

Mr. L. N. Sharp, town clerk, Granville, in his financial statement on Tuesday evening stated that the total receipts of rates and sanitary charges current and…

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Achievements by Lang Govt. for Country Election Promises Are Carried Into Effect One Exception Thwarted by Vested Interests in Leg. Council

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 5

WHEN the Labor Party went to the people in October, 1930, it expounded a definite programme of legislation in the interests of the…

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How the Lang Government Has Battled to End Unemployment OVER £8000000 Spent in Work and on Relief Many Plans Thwarted by High Finance and Leg. Council Bold Policy Economic Effects of Low Wages on Employment Abermain

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 6

"NO Government in Australia has attempted or done nearly as much as the Lang Government to solve the problem of…

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REV. T. E. RUTH. Trades Hall Resentment. Alderman Garden's Challenge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 9

The comments of the Rev. T. E. Ruth on the administration of the State Government aroused a storm of indignation among union secretaries at the Trades Hall yesterday…

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A "Bob-in" Did It Aldermen Helped Poor Man Cow Set Free

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 1

Willoughby aldermen solved a difficult legal problem last night, and also tempered justice with mercy…

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Council Awards City Deputies Are Appointed

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 4

In the huge industrial organisation of the City Council, two Conciliation Committees operate-- one known as the City Council Committee, and the…

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Labor Candidate Defeated Council Seat Won by Independent

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday. -- A. Curtis, non-party candidate, won the Kelvin Grove by-election for the City Council seat, formerly held by Ald…

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Delegates Motor in Rain to Council Wagga

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 7

The intense enthusiasm for the "Lang is Right" campaign throughout the country was demonstrated here yesterday when the Young…

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Upper House. Privy Council Appeal. Case for Respondents. London, April 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1932 · page 9

Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., for the New South Wales Government, concluded his address by submitting that all colonial legislation regarding the manner and form of legislation…

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