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Council & local affairs, 1942

3,085 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 155

Municipal Markets

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 10

At the Municipal Markets this morning there was a steady request for fruit and a good demand for most lines of vegetables…

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Municipal Markets

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 10

At the Municipal Markets this morning there was a steady request for fruit and a good demand for most lines of vegetables…

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Municipal Markets

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 10

At the Municipal Markets this morning there was a steady request for fruit and a good demand for most lines of vegetables…

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Wair Council Adjourns Allied Nations in Talks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 13

MELBOURNE. Friday.—The meeting at which the War Council is discussing the defence of the South Pacific began in…

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WIDER N.E.S. POWERS Concessions to City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 13

The Lord Mayor Alderman Crick, said yesterday that, as a result of a conference with the Minister for N.E.S., Mr. Heffron,…

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More Positive Action Urged War Council Plans New Pacific Strategy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 2

War Council members yesterday urged that Australia should again demand more positive action by the United Nations in the Pacific…

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R.A.A.F. Makes Fifth Attack on Rabaul Aust. War Council Discusses Wider Counter-Offensive

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 1

More intensive air attacks on advanced Japanese bases were discussed by the Advisory War Council in Melbourne yesterday, says the Daily Telegraph Federal roundsman…

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Chiang Looms As Asiatic Leader Man Who Can Link Orientels Dr. Koo His Voice on War Council

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.-- The man who performed the impossible with his ill-equipped, if numerous forces, fought the powerful Japanese armies to a standstill and brought about the re-birth of China,…

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Chiang Looms As Asiatic Leader Man Who Can Link Orientals Dr. Koo His Voice on War Council

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.- The man who performed the impossible with his ill-equipped, if numerous forces, fought the powerful Japanese armies to a standstill and brought about the re-birth of China,…

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Chiang Looms As Asiatic Leader Man Who Can Link Orientals Dr. Koo His Voice on War Council

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.-- The man who performed the impossible with his ill-equipped, if numerous forces, fought the powerful Japanese armies to a standstill and brought about the re-birth of China,…

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Recast Plans to Defend Australia From Attack All Night Work By Staff Officers After War Council Sitting MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 28 February 1942 · page 3

Information reaching the Commonwealth Government indicates that Japanese penetration into the Netherlands East Indies is on such a scale that Australia can no longer rely on the impregnability of its outer…

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War Council Plans Australian Defence Allied Powers Take Part MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 1 March 1942 · page 2

Far-reaching decisions that will affect profoundly all future considerations of the strategy of Australia's defence were made at today's War Council…

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New Charcoal Plan Shire Councils to Help

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 5

The State Government plans to increase production of charcoal considerably by April 10. The executive of the War…

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Work of Pacific War Council Our Own Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 6

LONDON, March 1.—The "running-in" period of the Pacific War Council has achieved worthwhile results in smoothing out…

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Letters Pacific Council To the Editor of "The Herald."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1942 · page 3

Sir.—It was with dismay that I read Dr. Evatt's review of the war and the misk-statements made and implied therein. Mr. Roosevelt has…

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Council's Sales Policy to Stand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 10

SYDNEY County Council decided today to maintain its sales of electric appliances consistent with supplies and materials being available,…

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Council's Sales Policy to Stand

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 10

SYDNEY County Council decided today to maintain its sales of electric appliances consistent with supplies and materials being available…

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County Council to Build Coal Stocks

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 3

THE necessity of building up adequate coal stocks to maintain Sydney's electricity supply was stressed at today's meeting of the…

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Shelter in Street Council Committee Approves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 6

The City Council works committee yesterday created a precedent by sanctioning the construction of air raid shelters in…

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Mass Protest Over Evacuation Lag "Get Damn Thing Done" Says Lord Mayor

The Sun · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 7

Strong protests were made at a conference of municipal and shire representatives at the Town Hall today, when the Minister in Charge of Evacuation (Mr. Hamilton Knight) stated that the State Government had…

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