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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1938

3,978 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 199

Municipal Employees' Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 23

Although its employees are already being paid 3/ over award rates, Kogarah Council has decided to grant them the extra 1/ a week for males and 6d a week for females…

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Labor Council of N.S.W. Authorised Report. Pan Pacific Conference Proposed. Request for A.C.T.U. to Act. Military Training Opposition to Tasmanian Proposal

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 14

POLITICAL and Industrial Labor leaders throughout the Comman-Wealth last week expressed strong opposition to the proposal put forward…

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Labor Alderman Is Congratuated Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 7

[?]to be elected, on the primary count to the Greater Newcastle Council, received the congratulations of his fellow members on the…

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City Electricity. Reform Association's View. Relations with Aldermen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 5

It is expected that the annual meeting of the Citizens' Reform Association to-morrow will discuss the relations between the association and the Civic Reform aldermen of the…

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Executive Council Appointments

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 6

The Executive Council yesterday approved the appointment of Mr. C. H. Graham, assistant-superintendent of the State Penitentiary at Long…

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Call-up of Workless Positions Vacant. Government Labor Exchanges. Municipality of Manly and Shire of Warringah

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 10

LABORERS. Returned soldiers and sailors as denned in the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Employment Act. 1919. with the above…

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Council News. Progress Associations

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 5

Woronora Progress Association writes complaining of the condition of the road at the lower part of Price’s Avenue, and request that immediate…

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Council Jottings. Railway Matters

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 4

The Shire Progress Council together with Engadine, Heathcote and North West Arm and Gray's Point Progress Association requested the Council to…

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Tour of Inspection Baulkham Hills Shire Works Programme

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 7

Yesterday, members of the Baulkham Hills Shire Council, conducted a tour of inspection of "A" riding and completed their examination of "B" riding. This…

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Rehousing Scheme Council Still Sceptical

The Labor Daily · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 6

That his council was still sceptical of the success of the Government's housing scheme at Ersklneville, was the statement made by the Mayor of…

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Holroyd Council Tuesday Night's Meeting

The Broadcaster · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 3

Aldermen Campbell (Mayor) Warnock (deputy), Fenwick, Chamberlain, Jones, Martin, Thorburn, Barry, Clarke and Styles were in attendance at the last…

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Showground Council Further Considers Transfer

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 5

Penrith Council, at its meeting on Monday evening, further advanced the negotiations between it and the Show Society for the transfer of the…

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Ingleburn Council. Heavy Business Sheet

Liverpool News · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 1

The Mayor Ald. C. C. Murray), and Aldermen P. Connell, J. S. Freeman, W. G. Hosking, G. H. Naylor, C. Luff, and H. H. Bainbridge, were present at the…

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Chaos at Quay. Public Meeting Suggested. Lord Mayor's View, Deputation Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 8

The Lord Mayor, Alderman Nock, declared yesterday that the conditions at Circular Quay were discreditable both to the Government and to the city. The…

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Smashed Council's Meters. Bexley Man Fined

The Propeller · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 2

Before Mr. Reed, S.M., at the Kogarah Police Court on Tuesday, a man was fined £2, and ordered to pay 35- compensation to the St. George…

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Casula to Council (To the Editor.)

Liverpool News · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 1

Sir,—Would you kindly publish the following extracts from my teller read at last Liverpool Council meeting. They put quite a different construction [?]…

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County Council Showroom Last Year's Accounts

The Propeller · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 3

In a special report at the last meeting of the St. George County Council the Deputy County Clerk (Mr. H. N. Bennett) gave figures of the…

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Baulkham Hills Shire Inspection — Australian's Plane Wrecked — Erskineville Scheme Inaugurated

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 14

Baulkham Hills shire councillors viewing the Hawkesbury River and the River Road from a high vantage point during their inspection of the shire yesterday…

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Townson Street Residents. Apologise to Kogarah Council

The Propeller · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 2

An apology was received at this week's meeting of Kogarah Council from residents of Townson Street, concerning the phraseology of a…

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INQUIRY Into Council's Borrowing Request to Department

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 4

DENRITH Council on Monday evening unanimously carried a motion by the Mayor (Ald. D. Fitch) that the Minister be asked…

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