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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1948

2,260 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 113

National Council of Jewish Women Future Functions

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 12

Saturday, April 17th, 8 p.m., Dance, Council Rooms, 8 Young Street. Hostesses Western Suburbs Committee Council Younger Set…

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Sydney Diary Easy wash-days: Those Icebergs left us cold: British Council's work: Footnotes on Berger

The Sun · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 9

MODERN apartment blocks in New York have basements equipped with those automatic laundries. where husbands…

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Vegetables (City Municipal Markets)

The Land · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 26

The State Marketing Bureau reports: Offerings of beans continued to be well in excess of retail requirements and on most days prices ranged mainly from 1/…

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Fruit (City Municipal Markets)

The Land · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 26

The State Marketing Bureau reports: Vaules for apples were well maintained during, the period and in the case of Jonathans had a slightly firmer tendency…

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Loan Sought For Shire Control Of Electricity

Tribune · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 7

KEARSLEY Shire Council has decided to apply to the loan Council for renewed approval of its application for an…

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Police Favor Plebiscite On Move To Affiliate With Labor Council

Tribune · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 6

Police Association delegates, who on Wednesday voted by 22 votes to 21 for affiliation with the NSW Labor Council, on Thursday morning, by 27 votes to 16 vetoed a move to rescind this decision, but decided to call for a plebiscite of the whole membership before affiliating. Association president Mr. J. V Driscoll, who delegates had been swayed…

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Council's ultimatum on flats

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 April 1948 · page 8

Hunter's Hill Council has issued an ultimatum to the State Housing Commission to abandon…

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Commission To Defy Council

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 7

The Housing Commission would build flats at Henley, despite Hunter's Hill Council objections, a Housing Commission…

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Sidwell to Face L.t.a. Council

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Davis Cup player W. Sidwell will be called before the council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia to explain…

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Town Hall Ban on Communists Decision By City Council

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 7

The City Council decided unanimously last night to ban the use of the Sydney Town Hall by the Communist Party…

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Council Orders Inquiry on Blackout Plant Staff To Be Questioned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 9

Sydney County Council cat its meeting yesterday ordered the Council's general manager (Mr. Boyd) to inquire fully into last Sunday's…

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Wallaby Meets Mayor Eric Tweedale

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 2

Rochdale-born Eric Tweedale, a member of the Wallabies' Rugby Union team which has just completed a successful tour of Great Britain, called on the…

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Copland on Council

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Minister for Post War Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman) announced today that the Vice…

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Council Seeks More Telephones

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 2

Parramatta Council has asked for public telephones to be erected at the corners of Brabyn and Albert Sts.,…

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Electricity For All Of Baulkham Hills Shire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 5

All parts of Baulkham Hills Shire will be served with electricity by the middle of next year, under a scheme proposed…

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Wage Increase for Council Employees

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 2

EMPLOYEES of municipal and shire councils in N.S.W., excluding Sydney and Newcastle, were awarded…

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Wage Increase for Council Employees

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 2

EMPLOYEES of municipal and shire councils in N.S.W., excluding Sydney and Newcastle, were awarded…

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Rural Workers' Accommodation Act Operations of Advisory Council

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 10

The Minister for Labor and Industry, Mr. F. T. Finnan, in a recent press statement, emphasises the fact that his Department is responsible for the administration of the…

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Balmain Council Move -For Big Rise In Rents

Tribune · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 7

Balmain Council has taken preliminary action to increase property valuations in the municipal ity by 25 per cent. WHERE the Improved Capital Value of a Property is…

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Council Building Fees Doubled. Another Burden For Building Public

Construction · Wednesday 21 April 1948 · page 7

Yet another addition to the ever-rising building costs has been added by the doubling of the building fees payable to municipal councils for the submission and approval of building plans…

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