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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1937

4,411 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 221

U.A.P. Break Wider Fear Defeat of Referenda Resolution Against "Yes" Vote Council to Meet

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 7

SHOWING how hopelessly divided the U.A.P. is on the Referenda to be held next month, and how much it fears defeat because of the effect it will have on the next elections, is the resolution to be dealt with at this month's U.A.P. Council meeting…

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Call-up of Workless (Published gratis because of the Government's withdrawal of the advertisement from "The Labor Daily.") Positions Vacant. Government Labor Exchanges. Municipality of Bexley

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 4

LABORERS (trench work). Those men at present registered holding current cards issued by the Metropolitan Labor Exchanges, with the above…

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This Mayor Is a Treasure Made All the Council Furniture

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 5

Holroyd Council is very proud of its new furniture which was made by the Mayor Alderman Tucker Jones. The aldermanic table, semicircular…

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Applied for a Re-count Provisional Alderman's Action Gosford

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 5

Appointed by the Minister for Works, Mr. Spooner, as one of the nine provisional aldermen to function prior to the first Gosford…

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Protest to Council

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 12

The Cranbrook School authorities have informed the Woollahra Council that they will strongly resist any attempt by the council to acquire…

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Big Business Paper For City Council

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 12

After a long Christmas and New Tear recess, the City Council, to-morrow resumes business with some of the…

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Beauty Spot at Parramatta Scrubland Transformed by Council

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 4

Once a tangled waste of scrub, Lake Parramatta Reserve has been transformed by Parramatta Council into a beauty spot…

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A Goddess Pleads Lotus Feet in Privy Council London

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 1

A Hindu idol fashioned of gold and silver and other precious metals, and named the Goddess of the Lotus…

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£866 Car to Be Traded in Served County Council for One Year

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 13

The car purchased for the chairman of the Sydney County Council has had one year of life, but the general manager, Mr. Forbes Mackay,…

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Loan Council's Problems No Definite Decisions At Last Week's Meeting Premiers in Dilemma

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 16

LAST week's meeting of the Loan Council appears to have passed off without any of the anticipated friction, although there was a long and more or less academic debate on financial policy generally…

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Loan Council Vignettes N.S.W. Holds Own with Rest of Commonwealth Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 7

So much of the government or Australia, both Commonwealth and State, has been centred in Melbourne during the second half of the week that a few impressions and summaries may not be amiss…

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Spooner May Elect Administator for Erina Council Deadlock After Private Conference to Choose President for 1937 GOSFORD

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 19

For the second time within 12 months, the Minister for Works, Mr. Spooner, has under consideration the dismissal of Erina Shire Council and the appointment of an administrator…

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Spooner's Role of Mediator Deadlock In Erina Shire Council Administrator Gosford

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

FOLLOWING a visit here yesterday by the Minister for Works and Local Government. Mr. Spooner, accompanied by the Under-Secretary…

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Baulkham Hills Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

The president (Cr. A. Whitling) occupied the chair at Tuesday's meeting of Baulkham Hills Council. Others present were Crs. Crawford, Williams, Rayer, Cornwell,…

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Erina Shire. Administrator Likely. Deadlock Over Presidency. GOSFORD

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 6

Although the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner) was reticent regarding the outcome of the conference with the Erina Shire Council yesterday afternoon,…

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Council to Be Disbanded Deadlock at Erina

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

GOSFORD, Sunday.--It is certain that Erina Shire Council will be disbanded on Wednesday owing to failure to elect a President…

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Three Hotels on Offer Council Policy Of No Trading

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 15

Continuing its policy of withdrawing from the field of trading enterprises, the City Council will shortly offer for sale three more city hotel…

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£500,000 SCHEME Resumption of Slum Areas Council Will Object

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

Lidecombe Council objects to the Government's scheme of spending £500,000 on the resumption of slum areas in and around the city. It considers that slum…

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Idol Before Privy Council. Strange Appeal from India. LONDON, Feb. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 10

A Hindu idol, fashioned in gold, silver, and other precious metals, and named the goddess Sri Sri Iswari Bhudaneshwari Thakuarni, has appeared in the role of appellant before the…

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Lighting of Oval Cost of £1000 to Instal Council to Consider

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

"It is all very well for anyone to say: If the oval is lit, we will be only too pleased to make use of it'," said the Mayor (Ald. C. W. Phillips) at last…

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