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Council & local affairs, 1945

2,226 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 112

Amendments Rejected Vain Battle by Opposition on Council Change

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 7

THE Government in the Legislative Assembly last night rejected every amendment suggested by the Opposition to the Local…

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Amendments Rejected Vain Battle by Opposition on Council Change

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 7

THE Government in the Legislative Assembly last night rejected every amendment suggested by the Opposition to the Local…

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Agric. Council Reviews Fodder Position; Serious Effects of Drought Stressed

The Land · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 3

THE Australian Agricultural Council, at its meeting in Melbourne last week, gave much of its attention to the acute fodder position, as it was realised that there was urgent need for such action as would ensure…

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State Ministers Urge Maximum Price for Wheat Necessary To Stimulate Production, Says Council Farmers Still Want 5/2 BUS

The Land · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 2

AT its recent meeting in Melbourne the Australian Agricultural Council passed a motion urging the Commonwealth Government to raise the guaranteed price of wheat to the maximum figure possible,…

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Baseball Council Elects President

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 March 1945 · page 12

A. P. Nichols, has been elected as first president of the newly-constituted N.S.W. Baseball Council, which takes over this season…

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Has Advisory War Council Outlived Its Usefulness?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1945 · page 2

Early debates of the new Parliamentary session acutely raise the question whether the Advisory War Council remains of any substantial use to the nation. There is no doubt that the Council is of more substantial political use than ever to the Government—a very different thing…

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Letters to the Editor Allied Works Council Treatment of Workers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1945 · page 2

Sir,—Two reports have come into my hand dealing with the treatment by the A.W.C. of the workers at the hydro-electric dam at Butler's Gorge, Tasmania…

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Mayor to Sing "Mairzy Doats"

Truth · Sunday 4 March 1945 · page 19

THE Mayor of North Sydney (Ald. A G. Fowle) will sing "Mairzy Doats" in Harry Yates' Digger session over 2UE at 4 p.m. today…

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Wide Search for Missing Ex-mayor

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 March 1945 · page 5

Two hundred miners, police, and other volunteers searched yesterday for Edward Francis Dobbs, 56, ex-Mayor of Lithgow, who was missed early…

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£1000 Loan subscription to silence singing Mayor

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 March 1945 · page 4

Mayor Fowle, of North Sydney, said yesterday it would cast £1000 to stop him singing "Mairzy Doats" in the 2UE Digger session at 4 p.m. today. Mr. Fowle expects to get…

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Council says backyard building must come down; landlord says, "NO"

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1945 · page 3

ROCKDALE council and the landlord of a Ramsgate property are in conflict about a building in a…

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Council Ban on Dogs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 4

Several Alsatian dogs kept on premises in Foster Street, Leichhardt have set a problem which Leichhardt Council has been…

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Council Declines Red Army Day Invitation

Tribune · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 1

MAITLAND Municipal Council did not accent an invitation from Greater Maitland Committee of the Australian Communist Party to be…

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Illegal Housie Game Alleged Report To Council; Committee To Consider Action

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 7

Housie games played in the lower hall of the Sydney Town Hall were illegally conducted, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Neville Harding) alleged yesterday…

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Alderman Loses £635 In Notes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Alderman Whiteley, of Petersham, has lost £635 in notes, but he does not know just where. He thinks he lost the money…

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Housie Condemned by Lord Mayor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 5

Housie had become such a financial lure to many that it was "endangering the moral fibre of the community," the Lord Mayor, Alderman W. Neville…

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Cricket Challenge to Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 1

Maybe there is some outdoor employee of Parramatta Council who has felt sometimes that he would like to hit the town clerk or one of the…

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National Mapping Council Approved

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Full Cabinet yesterday approved the establishment of a National Mapping Council on lines approved by the…

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National Mapping Council Approved

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 9

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Full Cabinet yesterday approved the establishment of a National Mapping Council on lines approved by the…

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