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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1937

4,411 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 221

Water Bores. Search for Supply at Moore Park. Council Orders Test

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 11

To determine whether there is sufficient underground water in Moore Park to supply the requirements of the municipal golf links, the City Council…

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Chairman Supported in Council Row Session in Camera Authority Is Upheld

The Sun · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 12

DECIDING that the dispute between the chairman (Cr. McElhone) and the deputy general manager (Mr…

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Sweating at Show Alleged Attack By Aid. At City Council in Sideshows

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 5

AT the City Council meeting yesterday. Aldermen O'Dea. Labor, said in his 28 year.' experience in the industrial movement, he had…

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45 Girls Face The Judge Seeking Council Position First Division Of Personality Stakes Many Types

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

THE first division of the Personality Stakes was decided at the Sydney County Council yesterday afternoon…

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Water Bores in Moore Park Move by Council Likely Experiment To Cost £300 for Link

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 6

A RECOMMENDATION that the City Engineer should be allowed to spend £300 on sinking experimental water bores in Moore Park was…

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Municipal Worker Retires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 12

Johnnie, a docile carthorse, owned by the Auburn Municipal Council, is nearing the end of his career. He reached his 27th birthday some time ago…

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Municipalities of Burwood. Concord, Ashfield, Strathfield and Homebush. Bottommen (experienced men only)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 10

Those men at present registered, holding current cards issued by the Metropolitan Labor Exchange, with the above qualifications, residing within the Municipalities of…

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Municipality Of, Hurstville. Bottommen (experienced men only)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 10

Those men at present registered holding current current issued by the Metropolitan Labor Exchange, with the above qualifications, residing within the Municipality of…

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Municipalities of Darlington and Redpern. Bottommen (experienced men only)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 10

Those men at present registered holding current cards issued by the Metropolitan Labor Exchanges with the above qualifications residing within the Municipalities of…

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Municipality of Paddington. Bottommen (experienced men only)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 10

Those men at present registered, holding current current issued by the Metropolitan Labor Exchanges, with the above qualifications, holding Registration Nos. G30,001 to…

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Portland Relief Workers Dispute With Shire Council

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 8

WE have received from M. Gallagher and J. Button, president and secretary respectively of the Portland Unemployed and Relief Workers' Council…

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Shire Conference. Junee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 11

The Illabo Shire Council has adopted the following resolutions for submission to the Shire Conference:— "That conference ask the Main Roads Board…

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Examination Fetish Criticised "Not Real Knowledge Test," Says Alderman

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 19

A FETISH was made of educational qualifications, said Aid. Moverly at the Water Board meeting to-day. Many boys had an examination complex and did not do well, he added…

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County Council Troubles

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 12

WHEN the Government took the electricity undertaking out of the hands of the City Council, under the authority of which it had been built up, it was doubtless with the excellent purpose of increased efficiency…

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Council of Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 14

The Council of Churches of New South Wales, at its monthly meeting yesterday, decided to exclude the Press from all its future meetings…

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Council Wants Act Amended

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 6

THE position of divided authority and consequent friction forecasted by the Labor Party when the bill setting up the County Council was before Parliament in 1935 came to a head yesterday, when, following a discussion held in camera the…

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Willoughby Park Lands. Proposed Lease for Golf Course. Mayor's Statement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 12

The Mayor of Willoughby (Alderman Meldrum) said yesterday that the area of six and a half acres along the foreshores of the Lane Cove River, over which the Chatswood…

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Students' Council. First Woman President

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 9

Miss Margaret Walkom has been elected president of the Sydney University Students' Representative Council for 1937. She is the first woman to hold…

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False Pretences. Estate Agent Sentenced. Mayor Told of His Own Promise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 10

When Bruce Nicol, 58, estate agent, was charge at the Burwood Police Court yesterday with false pretences, the Mayor of Burwood (Alderman Frederick Harold Reed) gave…

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Colonies a Vital Necessity German Mayor Talks Of Demands LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 10

Opening the Colonial Exhibition at Frankfort-on-Maine, the Mayor (Dr. Krebs) expressed the fervent hope that 1937 would see the fulfilment of…

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