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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1937

4,411 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 221

Lower Electricity Rates Forecast to Follow Big Scheme Stevens Confident Loan Council Will Help £12,000,000 PROPOSITION

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

WHEN the big electricity scheme of the State Government is completed, existing bulk rates in the north should be reduced by 40 per cent. and in the west by 33 per cent. City consumers should also benefit by a…

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Millions for Wealthy But Social Services Are Slashed [From the N.S.W. Council of Unemployed and Relief Workers]

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 4

Progress figures in relation to government income and expenditure have been released. These figures show that, despite the…

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Award Variation Sought Municipal Employees' Union Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 8

An application for a variation of the award covering draftsmen and cleaners employed by the Electric Supply Department of the City Council was made to-day to the…

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Housing Board. Lord Mayor May Be Chairman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 17

At its meeting next week, the State Cabinet will complete the personnel of the new Housing Improvement Board. The chairman of the board will probably be…

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Loan Council Meets Feb. 4

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- It was stated officially today that it was almost certain the Loan Council meeting would begin in Melbourne on…

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Tas. and Loan Council Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 1

The Loan Council meeting will be held in Melbourne on February 4 to consider the loan programme for the rest of the present financial year…

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Point Piper Flats. Residents' Petition to Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 18

In a petition presented to the Woollahra council, 36 residents of Point Piper protested against the proposed erection on one allotment at Point Piper of a building containing…

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County Council. Election of Chairman. Councillor Lloyd's Prospects

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 17

The Sydney County Council, which controls the city electricity undertaking, will elect its chairman at a meeting to be held on Tuesday. The twelve months' term of the present…

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Loan Council Business for Discussion. Ministers Reticent. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 18

Federal and State Ministers are markedly reticent about the business, which will be discussed at the meeting of the Loan Council to be held in Melbourne on February, 4. No…

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Oppose London Borrowing Federal Stand At Loan Council CANBERRA

The Sun · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 3

Suggestions that the Commonwealth should borrow on the London market are not favorably regarded in Federal Ministerial circles…

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Anti-labor Council Rebuffs Spooner Loss of Subsidy a Blow Dunningham Asked To Receive Deputation LEICHHARDT

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 8

A STRONG U.A.P. council--Leichhardt--has rejected the so-called "full time works at award rates scheme" of the Minister for Works…

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League Council. Danzig and Alexandretta to be Discussed. (British Official Wireless and Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 18

The British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) will leave London next Wednesday to attend the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations on January [?]1…

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New Municipal Library? Carnegie Trust May Be Approached

The Sun · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 2

An approach to the Carnegie Trust for help in constructing a new Sydney municipal library building will be recommended to the City Council…

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

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 12

STONEMASONS. Those men at present registered holding current cards issued by the Metropolitan Labor Exchange, with the above…

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King's Cross Chemist Fails Former Mayor of Mosman Examination In Bankruptcy

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 20

THAT he had paid away about £4 a week for meals for himself and two employees while conducting a chemist…

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County Council Chairman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 11

Alderman A. Malnerd. (Bexley) has been re-elected chairman of the St. George County Council. The allowance was fixed at £104, Alderman McGuire (Rockda's) has been…

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Differ on Loan Council

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- The Commonwealth did not desire the Loan Council meeting, to take place on February 4, because it considered that the…

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Slum "Germ Traps" Sydney "Bad As Worst in World" View of London Alderman

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

WHILE Sydney's modern homes and buildings compare more than favorably with any in the world, some…

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Mayor Entertains His Supporters Labor's Confidence in Future of Party

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 2

The Mayor of Auburn (Alderman Upton) entertained about a hundred friends and supporters at a gathering on the stage of the Town Hall,…

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Grave-diggers on Strike Council Employees Go Out in Sympathy London

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 11

Following allegations, which an inquiry failed to substantiate, that a child's body had been removed from a grave in a cemetery at Hebburn-…

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