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Minutes of the Finance Committee: Town Hall lettings; creation of position of Lord Mayor’s

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Unique IDA-00432659SeriesMinutes of the Finance Committee I [Municipal Council of Sydney]DateBetween 14th January 1925 and 28th December 1926FormatVolume - Leather BoundDescriptionMinutes of the Finance Committee: Town Hall lettings; creation of position of Lord Mayor’s Secretary; letting of Kiosk at Moore Park to Kindergarten Union; Frog Hollow resumption; Christmas dinner for poor at Town Hall; reinstatement of Manning Chambers; site for new Library building; retirement allowance to T H Nesbitt; reorganisation of City Architect and Building Surveyor’s Department; Roll of Honour In Town Hall; control of fish supply to Fish Market by Council; pigeon nuisance at Town Hall; lease of Sir George Grey Hotel; Martin Place Remodelling Scheme; model of Wattle Street Deport prepared by ex-City Surveyor Normal Selfe; repairs to Central Dome of QVB; transcript of inscription of T S Mort statue in Macquarie Place; control of Customs House Square; Town Hall Additions Block A tender; construction of Ways Terrace dwellings; staff reorganisation; erection of substation Kent and Clarence Streets; naming of Ways Terrace dwellings as Pyrmont Municipal Dwellings; preservation of license for Coronation Hotel; purchase of land at rear of Town Hall; question of supplying caretaker of Dowling Street Dwellings with revolver; proposed erection of tablet in Town Hall re South African War; disposal of war souvenir [spare breech block for 12 inch naval gun from HMAS Australia]; proposed new Coronation Hotel in Park Street resumption Area; construction of Workmens Dwellings at Pyrmont Bridge Road; work for unemployed citizens at Christmas; request to stop Town Hall Clock chimes at night [refused]; supply of bentwood chairs for Town Hall; method of appointment of unskilled labour; exchange of land with “Sun” newspaper – Elizabeth Street widening; offer of painting of A J Riley, Mayor in 1887; four cast iron boundary posts (inscribed “Hosking, Mayor 1842”) removed and stored at Wattle Street – offer of one to Royal Australian Historical Society; conversion of disused substation Forbes and Nicholson Streets to reading room; erection of Workmens’ Dwellings Pyrmont Bridge Rd; employees of Council to be unionists; bringing Town Hall Organ up to modern standards; plans for Town Hall Extension Block C; provision of revolvers for rent collectors; removal of rails at Druitt Street frontage of Town Hall; replacement of pneumatic action of Town Hall Organ.LanguageEnglish (eng)Digitised recordNo

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Minutes of the Finance Committee: Town Hall lettings; creation of position of Lord Mayor’s