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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1934

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Loan Council's Agenda Too Unwieldy, Says Vic. Premier

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday. Following the statement by the Premier to-day that the agenda of the Premiers' Conference next week…

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State School Teachers. Federal Council Meeting. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 8

The annual meeting of the council of the Federated State School Teachers' Association to-day decided to make representations to the State Premiers, and also to the Premiers'…

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Reserve Site for Garage Council Protests at Lease

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 9

Hornsby shire clerk (Mr. King) last night told council that in September the Lands Department had, without informing council, granted…

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National Council Jewish Women Sydney Section. the Late Louis H. Salkind

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

A Special Memorial Service in memory of their late member will be held by the National Council of Jewish Women and the Y.M.H.A., at their rooms, on…

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Municipality of Kogarah. Extraordinary Election. East Ward

The St George Call · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

In accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1919, and Ordinances thereunder, notice is hereby given that an election for the…

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St. George County Council. Our Electricity Supply. Record of Wonderful Achievement. The Past and the Present. Part Ii. Further Loan Moneys

The Propeller · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

With the switching on of the current applications for supply began to pour into the council's office, with the result that before the original loan was…

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Five Resign Mayor And Aldermen At Blayney BLAYNEY

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 3

The Mayor and four aldermen of the municipal council yesterday tendered their resignations to the Town Clerk because of the council's…

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More Aldermen Castlereagh Request Council Supports P.A.

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 1

Castlereagh Council has decided to support a request by the Castlereagh Progress Association to the Minister that the Council…

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Nepean Shire Council Election of President

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 7

A special meeting of the Nepean Shire Council was held at the Council Chambers, Bringelly on Thursday, 14th ult, for the…

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Blayney Council. Five Aldermen Resign. Administrator to Be Appointed. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 13

Five of the nine aldermen of the Blayney Municipal Council have resigned, and an administrator will have to be appointed by the Local Government Department, pending an…

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Lord Mayor's Callers

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 6

Further courtesy calls were held to the Lord Mayor yesterday, and among those whom he received were the president and secretary of the…

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No Comment Lord Mayor And Reform Party

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 3

The Lord Mayor (Ald. Parker) declined to-day to comment upon the statement issued by Sir Samuel Walder on behalf of the Civic Reform…

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Lord Mayor Is Busy Estimates and Calls Fill His Days

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 10

Since the new Lord Mayor, Aid. Parker, assumed office he has given himself over completely to his civic duties from 9.30 every morning…

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Castlereagh Council Increase in General Rate

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 6

A special meeting of Castlercagh Council was held on Thursday evening, 28th ult. There were present:—Tho Mayor (Ald. T. R. R. Smith), and…

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Executive Council "Gives It a Name"

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 3

A two-column nonce in the N.S.W. Government Gazette announces that in future the official name for the slender Long Tom (a fish of the…

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School Areas for Playing Council's Suggestion Is Rebuffed

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 4

Newtown Council recently asked the Education Department to throw open, the school ground, in the district after School hours, to be used…

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Administrator Wields Axe Dismissal of 23 Men at B'town 'One Man' Council Meeting Next Wednesday More Sackings

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 6

STORM-CENTRE of local government, Bankstown municipality, is again the focus of attention as a result of the administrator, Mr…

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New Lord Mayor Has Ideas His Hopes For 1934

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 2

It comes to the lot of few men to achieve the distinction of occupying the Lord Mayoral chair, and those…

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Fingerprints Prevented Gruesome Mistake Mayor's Son Nearly Buried As Pauper—Two Meet Awful Death Sensational Flood Sequel

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 15

MYSTERIOUSLY, in murky darkness on Saturday night week an awful death overtook two men as they floundered helplessly in the black waters of the Brisbane River at Hamilton, and during the week…

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Less Talk Means More Speed How One Man Can Be a Council

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 11

The one-man Council meeting to be held at Bankstown next Wednesday by Mr. W. R. Wylie, who recently was…

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