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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1939

3,672 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 184

Council's Ban on Camels. Gosford

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 7

Folowing the receipt of numerous compiaints from residents that camels had been allowed to roam about the bacaches and roads, the Erina Shire Council has decided to…

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Council to Aid Workless CASINO, N.S.W.

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 3

As a result of the agitation by the Relief Workers Council, the Labor Party and the Communist Party,…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jardan. Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, and Mr. Justice Maxwell). Crushed by a Pole. Thomason v Council of the Municipality of Campbelltown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 5

Judgment was given on an application by Maggie Bella Thomason for the new trial of an action in which she sued the Council of the Municipality of Campbelltown for herself…

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New Floating Dock for Stockholm Grant Approved by Stockholm City Council

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 5

Negotiations, which have been proceeding for quite a long time concerning a floating dock for large vessels in the port of…

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Council Tests Govt Sincerity Asks £1000 Grant On Civilian Defence SYDNEY, Apr. 28

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 4

The sincerity of the Federal and State governments’ talk about civilian defence of Australia and particularly about any form of protection from air raids will now be put to the test. The North Sydney Council has asked the National…

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Mayor To Help Defendants In Council Cases

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--In the next few days the Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman C. W. Jenner) will appear in the…

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How the Aldermen Put One Over Themselves

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 9

Some of Parramattta's city fathers recently made a somewhat disconcerting discovery. They discovered that they had purchased a motor…

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Left the Meeting "Wrong Ruling" Says Alderman

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 1

Dissenting to what he described as a "wrong ruling", Alderman Chapman, at last night's meeting of Liverpool Council, left the…

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Aldermen Clash Use of Hall for Sunday Political Meetings

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 4

Heated exchanges occurred between Alds. Harris and Adams at Cabra.Vale Council on Monday, over the question of granting the…

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Paspalum Menace Mayor's Plea Permanent Works

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 16

Estimating that it would cost £1,000 a year to keep down paspalum, the Mayor (Ald. Phillips) told Lidcombe Council last week that the only…

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Nominated As Chief Warden Cabra-vale Mayor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 4

The Mayor of Cabra-Vale (Ald. Hill) was nominated as Chief Warden of the municipality under the National Emergency…

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County Council Move

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 14

Approached recently by Blacktown Council regarding the formation of a county council to administer the electricity undertakings of both Blacktown…

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Baulkham Hills Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 2

The president (Cr. Whitling) was in the chair at yesterday's meeting of Ba moham Hills Shire Council…

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Council Officer Promoted

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 3

Thirteen years good service with the office staff of Holroyd Council was recognised last week, when Mr. V. W. Knight was promoted to the important…

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Council Accepts German Tender

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 7

A tender for German electrical equipment, costing £1560, was accepted by the County Council at yesterday's meeting. The only other tender was for a…

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Council "Hoodwinked" Shanty Dwellers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 4

"We've simply been hoodwinked. Time after time these people tell us they're going to build houses, but they never do anything," declared the Mayor…

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Girraween Requests to Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 3

Girraween Park Local Committee last night thanked Holroyd Council for the erection of dressing sheds in the park…

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Singleton Council Loan. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 11

The Singleton Municipal Council proposes to raise a loan of £12,500 to cover the cost of installing the sewerage to buildings within the municipality…

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Approach Minister? Council and Roads

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 14

Possibility that Blacktown Council may be obliged to ask the Minister for Local Government to intervene regarding Holroyd…

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"You Pay" Council to Mr. Mobbs

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 9

Complaining last week to Parramatta City Council about "the character of the levels and street formation at and adjacent to the corner of Western-road…

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