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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1945

2,226 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 112

Bardwell Park Children. Council Will Provide Path

The St George Call · Friday 20 July 1945 · page 1

The Parents and Citizens’ Association at Bardwell Park made a very earnest appeal to last meeting of Rockdale Council for provision of some form of…

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Move to Dismiss Varsity Editor Fails Student Council's Six-Hour Debate

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 July 1945 · page 5

By seven votes to five, Sydney University Students' Representative Council last night decided not to dismiss the editor of Honi Soit, student newspaper…

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Vegetables City Municipal Markets

The Land · Friday 20 July 1945 · page 27

The State Marketing Bureau reports:—The effects of recent heavy rains throughout the coastal belt are being reflected in the meagre supplies of peas reaching the…

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Labour Council Foils A.C.T.U. Communists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1945 · page 3

A decision by the Hobart Trades and Labour Council on Thursday night to reject proposed amendments to the…

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Clothing of ex-Lord Mayor sold to dealer

The Sun · Sunday 22 July 1945 · page 5

FROM the wardrobe of one man, a former Sydney Lord Mayor, a second-hand dealer has bought enough shirts, suits, shoes and other clothing to stock a new shop…

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Council Leaves Goats to Chew Things Over

Truth · Sunday 22 July 1945 · page 23

WOY WOY, Saturday.—Woy Woy Shire councillors have decided to do something about goats in the shire, which are eating ladies' underwear, jam tins, broken glass and old boots in backyards and streets. Among changes sought by the councillors in the ordinances are the…

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Rush For Wardrobe Of Former Mayor

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 8

BUSINESS and professional men, including a high-ranking police officer, competed at Mr. and Mrs. Woolf's second-hand clothing shop, Bathurst St., this morning, for selected…

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Rush To Buy Clothes Of Ex-Lord Mayor

The Sun · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 2

From 8.30 am today, dozens of people besieged Mr. and Mrs. Woolf's shop in Bathurst-street, trying to buy part of the wardrobe of the late Sir Archibald Howie, former…

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The Council of Potsdam

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 July 1945 · page 2

The news "black-out" which has effectively cloaked the first week's' activity of the "Big Three" at Potsdam is understandably gailing…

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County Council For South Coast Asked

Tribune · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 6

AT their recent conference at Wollongong members of the South Cost and Tablelands District of the Australian Communist Party expressed…

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Mooring of Old Hulks. Protest By Council

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 2

The Maritime Services Board has informed the North Sydney Council, in reply to complaints, that efforts have been made to…

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Municipal Candidates

Tribune · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 5

MELBOURNE.—Dr. Dobbin, well-known for his fine work for. improved health and town-planning in Williamstown, will be one of the…

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Aldermen's Condolences

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 2

At last meeting of Holroyd Council, Mayor Maunder referred in feeling terms to the death of the late Prime Minister. Hon. John Curtin, and moved that a…

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Aldermen Sat Up and Took Notice Letter From Premier of School Council

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 5

When, recently, the Cabra-Vale Council received a letter from 12-years-old Barbara Wilson, "Premier" of the Canley Vale School…

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Adams New Mayor of Cabra-vale

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 5

Alderman A. E. Adams was elected Mayor of Cabra-Vale at a special meeting of the council on Monday…

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Melbourne City Council Election

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 4

At a ballot on Saturday for the selection of a Labor candidate for the Hopetoun ward election for the Melbourne City Council, Mr…

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Council Chided for Sit-down Strike

The Sun · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 5

Mr. Justice Clancy sharply rebuked the City Council today for not being represented at the Royal Commission on the Greater Sydney proposals. "If seems to me to be a sit-down strike in…

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Opened Road Without Council's Permit Plumber Prosecuted

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 9

Had he obtained from Granville Council a permit to open Weston Street, Sidney Thomas Lewis McLeod, a plumber, would have paid…

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The Council Needs Help to Fight the Rats

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 1

Parramatta Council's campaign against rats will be of little avail without the co-operation of the people generally. The council on Monday decided to employ two extra men to destroy rats Already it had a man engaged part time on that…

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Council Says "No" to Frankfurt Vendor Police Attitude Mentioned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 9

After he had moved refusal of S. A. Barnes's application for permission to sell frankfurts in Darcy Street, Mayor Jeffery, at this week's…

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