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Council & local affairs, 1949

2,499 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 125

Dean’s Letter Worries Mayor

Tribune · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 8

THE Dean of Sydney’s application for use of the Town Hall for a debate between Mr. L.H. Gould, of the Australian…

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Shire To Get Electricity Subsidy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 5

Black town Shire will receive a Government subsidy of £385, paid over 10 years, towards the cost of extending the…

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Council Decides Board Candidate

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 5

Baulkham Hills Council decided at its last meeting to vote in favour of Alderman Duff as its representative on…

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Soviet's Sordid Slave Camps Upwards of 14 Million in Chains Forthright Exposure Before U.N. COUNCIL

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 12

Shades of Nazi concentration camp atrocities were recalled at the United Nations' Council meeting in New York, when the American delegates demanded a searchlight…

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Before the Privy Council What it Means and What it Involves a Legal Committee Which Writes British Commonwealth History

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 6

Speaking recently in a B.B.C. broadcast from London, a South African lawyer, Sir John Grenfell Williams, referring to the Bank Nationalisation Case before the Privy…

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How Many Wards, How Many Aldermen? Coming Re-division of Penrith Municipality

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 3

THE PRESENT arrangement by which United Penrith Municipality is divided into four wards, these being the areas of the…

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Sutherland Shire Assembly

The Propeller · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 1

The first annual dance of the Sutherland Shire Assembly was held in the Sutherland School of Arts on the 7th…

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Explosion Kills Shire Councillor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 1

An explosion killed instantly a 35-years-old Colo Shire Councillor of East Kurrajong yesterday afternoon. He was Councillor Ian McLaren Bruce…

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Fairfield Council

The Biz · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 4

No one had a chance to go to deep at las[?] Tuesday night's Fairfield Council meeting, for the aldermen were on alert from 7.30 till 12.15, Present were…

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Audit of Nepean Shire Accounts

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 3

A report on audit of the finances of the Nepean Shire, which, under amalgamation, ceased to exist on January 1, was received by Penrith…

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Aldermanic Service. Recognised by Hurstville Council

The Propeller · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 1

At the last meeting of Hurstville Council the following Mayoral minute was submitted by the Mayor, Ald. N…

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National Council of Jewish Women Israeli Appeal

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 10

The Chairman and Executive of the Kingsford Maroubra Committee are holding a high tea and games night at the Council Rooms on Sunday, May 29 at…

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Communist Is Re-elected A.E.U. Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 4

Mr. E. A. Rowe, a wellknown Communist, has been re-elected to the Commonwealth Council of the…

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Aerodrome Facilities in the District. Penrith Council's Request

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 3

Ald. R. S. Fragar moved, at the meeting of Penrith Council on Thursday evening that Council "ask the Department of Civil Aviation to give…

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Protest Against Library Rate Wallacia Progress Association to Council

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 1

"THE ASSOCIATION considers that, as the Library is situated in Penrith, this rate is unjust, because there is very little…

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The Issue of Rate Notices Council Discusses Delay "A Colossal Job"

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 7

MUCH concern was expressed by some aldermen at the meeting of Penrith Council on Thursday evdning at the delay In…

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Jindalee Shire To Get Power

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 12

MR. R. WARD a member of an Australian Primary Producers Union deputation which met the Cootamundra Municipal Council, said…

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Council News Council Meeting 11th May Another Crowded Night

The Observer · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 1

It was a case of standing room only again at this meeting when the Public Gallery was packed with visitors. The President, Councillor Monro,…

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Council of Jewish Women of Parramatta

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 12

Mrs. A. Rose kindly lent her home, Parramatta, for the meeting of the Executive and welcomed Dr Reading…

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WIZO State Council of Nsw Northern Wizo

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 12

It is not often that one is privileged to spend an evening at a party as perfectly arranged in all details as at the one that took…

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