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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1935

4,951 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 248

Refund to Council. Bellingen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 10

The Bellingen Shire Council has been advised by the Premier (Mr. Stevens) that £1704, representing £1500 paid by the council in instalments on the Urunga bridge since…

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Radio Hoax At Council Meeting

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 7

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday. ALL Nelson is laughing at the joke played on the City Council, which has recently been the subject of…

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Council By-elections in Melbourne Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 7

Legislative Council By-elections were held yesterday in Melbourne South province and South-Eastern province to fill the vacancies created…

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Miners' Eyes on Privy Council Case Hearing of Appeal by Coal Coy. Compensation For Incapacitated Workmen Silica Dust London

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 7

THE Privy Council will commence the hearing in July of the appeal by the Metropolitan Coal Co., Ltd., of Sydney, against…

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Municipal Elections. Alleged Malpractices. Police to Investigate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 9

The Police Department has been asked to investigate complaints made to the Government of alleged malpractices at a number of polling booths in the municipal and shire…

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Torn-up Paths City Aldermen Criticise Electricity Dept

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 8

Although City aldermen have been loud in their protestations against the Government's proposal to shift the electricity department to the control…

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Miners' Council

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 6

Presidents of the various district branches of the Miners' Federation, who have been in conference at Sydney dealing with internal financial questions,…

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Bill Posting. Municipal Council's Powers. Railway Commissioners' Property

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 6

An interesting point of law was decided in the Kogarah Police Court recently arising out of a prosecution by the local council for sticking posters on property belonging to the…

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Council and Railway Property

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 10

Ald. Dean asked the Lord Mayor, Ald. Parker, at yesterday's City Council meeting why a prospective tenant of premises at the corner of…

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Council Property to Be Auctioned

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 8

Five big city auctioneering firms have been retained by the City Council to act conjointly as auctioneers for the sale of lands in Park Street,…

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"Red Hot" School Request to Council

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 4

When Fernoourt School Committee asked Marrickville Council last night for some loads of soil to beautify the grounds, the Mayor,…

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Council Sells Organ & Windows of Church

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 5

The City Council yesterday decided to accept an offer from the trustees of St. Stephen's Church for the purchase from council of the organ,…

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Municipal Polls Report on Alleged Irregularities

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 7

The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Spooner, will probably receive this week the report of detectives investigating alleged…

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Drummoyne Alderman May Resign Seat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 14

"It is quite possible that I may resign my seat," said Alderman Nield at the meeting of the Drummoyne Council last night.He was responding to a motion of confidence…

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Mayoral Minutes To Overcome Obstruction. Aldermen Object

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 10

Several minutes by the Mayor of Bankstown (Alderman J. Cragg) at last nignt's meeting of the municipal council caused considerable discussion. Alderman P. Coleman described…

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Council Abandons Rationing

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 5

THE Randwick Council last night decided immediately to abolish rationing. Employees will now go on…

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Miners' Council Financial Report

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 6

Reports on various matters with which the organisation has been en[?]ed occupied the whole of the opening session of the meeting of the Central…

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Waterloo Council. Alleged Irregularities at Election. Minister's Advice to Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 14

The Minhlci for Local Government (Mr. Spooner) informed last night's meeting of Waterloo Council that he did not consider the council had put forward a case that would…

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Agricultural Council Meeting Canberra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 3

The Australian Agricultural Council, which was to have hold its first mooting in Sydney on April 16, will probably not meet until late in May…

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Council's Resolution. "Mind Your Own Business."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 14

When a letter from Newtown Council inviting co-operation in an effort to have the old-age and invalid pensions restored to £1 a week was read at last night's meeting of…

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