Breden, John Neale

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Unique IDPE-004374SurnameBredenGiven namesJohn NealeBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1886-1931Biographical noteBiographical details:
Known as J Neale Breden

Elocution training – Results for Sydney Technical College – Elocution First Grade Pass [ref: The Daily Telegraph 12 January 1889 p3]

Participation in Killara Bowling Club: [ref: Arrow (Sydney) 6 October 1917 p 3]; Article by Elizabeth Dokulil ‘Early History of the Killara Bowling Club’ [ref: The Historian (Ku-ring-gai Historical Society journal) Vol 44.1 pp72ff]

Residence at “Yolanstere”, 19 Karranga Avenue, Killara– article ‘Karranga Avenue’ by Lorna Watt; [ref: The Historian (Ku-ring-gai Historical Society journal) Vol 44.1 pp25ff]

Events leading up to his resignation 7 April 1931

Conviction of Rent-collector Olsson for embezzlement [ref: SMH 19 December 1930 p8];

Embezzlement Scandal – Council Actions – [ref: The Sun (Sydney)25 January 1931 p 2]; Daily Pictorial (Sydney) 25 January 1931 p 2]; [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 18 March 1931 p13]; [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 25 March 1931 p13]; [ref: The Maitland Weekly Mercury 28 March 1931 p12]; [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 8 April 1931 p11]; [ref: The Labor Daily (Sydney) 8 April 1931 p 1]; [ref: The Sydney Morning Herald 9 April 1931 p9]

NSW BDMs Registry: Death BREDEN JOHN NEALE 16015/1939 [parents] OCTAVIUS WILLIAM & EMMA registered at CHATSWOOD

Funeral Notice: [ref: SMH 14 September 1939 p7]

Obituary: . [ref: SMH 19 September 1939 p14]

Details from contemporary sources:
1886 Application 3 February - appointed to Telephone Department at 10/- per week [ref: 26/210/334]
1886 Telephone Department - Requests increase - writing rate notices granted 15/- per week - June [ref: 26/213/1225]
1886 Clerk - Request increase - November [ref: 26/216/2187]
1887 Request increase - granted 25/- per week August [ref: 26/221/1517]
1888 Request increase - May [ref: 26/228/864]
1889 Increase granted 35/- per week - February [ref: 26/232/253]
1889 Request increase - October [ref: 26/237/1730]
1890 Request increase - February [ref: 26/240/562]
1892 Request increase - 4 years’ service as Clerk but receiving considerably less than his predecessor - December [ref: 26/262/2422]
1893 Schedule of Salaries 1893-94 - Finance Committee recommendation [ref: 22/46/6]
1894 Schedule of Salaries 1894-95 - Finance Committee recommendation [ref: 22/47/57]
1895 Report on Salaries of Employees - £130 pa [ref: 22/48/22½ (b)]
1895 Request increase - December [ref: 26/282/1541]
1897 Request increase - January [ref: 26/289/214]
1898 Clerk - £156 pa - Return of Officers and Servants, January 1898, by the Town Clerk [ref: 22/55/1]
1898 Clerk - £156 pa - Recommendations on working of Corporation Departments - Partial return of employees at July 1898 [ref: 22/55/1]
1898 Appointed to official staff - December [ref: 22/42/51]
1898 Schedule of Salaries 1898-99 - Finance Committee recommendation [ref: 22/55/65]
1899 List: Officers Fidelity Guarantees Policy - October 1899 [ref: 21/21/45 [817] (b)]
1899 Salary Schedule 1898-99 - Finance Committee recommendation - Chief Clerk £200 pa [ref: 22/55/65]
1899 Appointed acting Town Clerk 4 October 1899 - Palmer on leave [ref: SMH 5 October 1899]
1899 £500 pa - Mayor's direction to pay at this rate as acting Town Clerk [ref: 26/312/2687]
1901 Appointment as Superintendent of Assets reported Australian Star 7 March 1901 [ref: Council Meeting 6 March 1901]
1908 Memo - November [ref: 1908/2276]
1931 Resignation - allowances - April [ref: 1601/31]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-000404

Photograph

Portrait of Comptroller of Assets and Stores JN Breden, Municipal Council of Sydney, 1922

Portrait of Comptroller of Assets and Stores JN Breden, Municipal Council of Sydney, 1925

Item

File - Distribution of new types of garbage boxes, Sydney, 1902

Relationships

CollectionPeople and PositionsOrganisationSydney City CouncilPositionChief Clerk [Town Clerk's Department]Clerk [Town Clerk's Department]Comptroller of Assets [Corporation Assets and Stores Department]Superintendent of Assets [Corporation Assets and Stores Department]Town Clerk [Town Clerk's Department]Related itemsReport of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1894Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1895Report of the Committee appointed to Inquire into and report upon staff salaries and wages, 1895Finance Committee Report - Re adoption of Report of Committee of Inquiry (re fraud)Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1899Finance Committee Report: 20 Oct to 16 Nov 1899 - Payment of wages and various other matters

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Breden, John Neale