Ku-ring-Gai Council In The Lead
Children benefit from colour planning
The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 6 November 1953
In recent years, psychologists have proven that planned colour environment has a beneficial effect on children and the Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council is to be congratulated on introducing colour planning to their nursery school at Gordon.
Australia was first made aware of the benefits of colour planning by the findings of extensive research projects conducted overseas. Psychologists discovered that whilst all children are susceptible to colour, it has its greatest impact on children of kindergarten age.
The Ku-ring-gai Council called in skilled colour consultants from Taubman’s Colour Service, to supervise the colour planning of their nursery school. Taking Pottery Blue, Shadow Grey and Primrose as the basic colours, they developed a colour scheme which, when executed by the contractor Mr. E. Mullins, of Pymble, created ideal surroundings for the children of the district.
Colour Returns To Stations
By “WARATAH"
The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 14 March 1947
RAILWAY station gardens along the North Shore line are being restored from drab war-time garb to places of green lawn and colour masses.
The work is being carried out by Ku ring gai Council gardeners.
Already there are beds of bright flowers and rejuvenated roses.
Masses of pink petunias, late dahlias and zinnias with phlox and portulacca as borders to roses and flowering shrubs, are a relief in the monotony of daily travel. Interest centres in floral progress
day by day.
ELECTRIC LIGHT EXTENSION.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 15 December 1916
The extension of the electric lighting system along the Milson's Point line continues to make substantial progress.
The Ku-ring-gai Council bas been informed by the General Manager of the City Council's Electric Light Department that if the weather conditions were favourable a start would be made early next week with the work of laying the extension mains adjacent to the Gordon Railway station.
The council has been assured that unless unexpected difficulties are encountered the supply of electricity should be available in restricted areas at four centres near the railway stations Roseville, Lindfield, Killara, and Gordon by the end of March or the beginning of April next.
A THREATENED AVENUE
The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 11 August 1942
Sir, - Wahroonga possesses a unique avenue of tall trees which for many years have been a joy to behold. It consists of some 36 camphor laurels and tristanias planted alternately on either side of the avenue, and forming an overarching canopy of foliage above the road. In total effect it is most impressive. I know of no avenue near Sydney that can match it.
It is pleasing to note that the Ku- ring-gai Municipal Council, which had authorised the lopping of the trees, has suspended operations in order to consider the representations of a deputation of Wahroonga residents.
It is hoped that the council will respect the earnest wishes of all tree-lovers that the impressiveness of this avenue shall not be diminished.
E. G. WATERHOUSE. Sydney University.
Water Board Rates
The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 2 May 1953
Sir, - Surely nobody knows better than the Water Board president, Dr. T. H. Upton ("Herald," May 1) that a large portion of the total of his municipal rates paid to Ku- ring-gai Council are compulsory levies or dues collected by council on behalf of statutory authorities.
Compulsory payments by my council to the Cumberland County Council, Main Roads Board, County Council, and Board of Fire Commissioners skyrocketed from £36,655 in 1949 to £67,717 in 1953.
In considering rates for 1953, my council decided that the quantum of rates payable in 1952 had reached the limit ratepayers should be called upon to pay, and consequently we slashed our officers' estimates and, in view of the new valuations, reduced the rate in the pound to provide only the same total income received by council in 1952.
How will householders feel when they receive the Water Board's assessments in a few months' time, calling upon them to pay increases of from £8 to £22?
ERIC SOLOMON.
Alderman. Gordon.
GELIGNITE STOLEN.
Suspected Criminal Purposes
The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 18 October 1930
An intensive search is being made by the police for the men who stole a large quantity of gelignite from a shed In Lindfield Park yesterday morning. It is believed to be highly probable that the theft was committed by men anxious to secure explosives for criminal purposes.
The gelignite which was used in road construction and for blasting purposes, was stored in a workman's shed owned by the Ku-ring-gai Shire Council on Thursday evening. In the morning it was missing. Apparently some persons had burst into the shed during the night. Only the gelignite was stolen, and all the tools were left untouched.
Two nights previously ten thousand rounds of ammunition of small calibre were missed from the miniature rifle range at Victoria Barracks. The thieves had entered the building where they were stored by tearing two sheets of galvanised iron at the back of the store.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 11 October 1928
The proposal to change the Shire of Ku- ring-gai into a municipality is one that appears to be causing a good deal of contention. On the face of it there is nothing to be excited about in the change of status. When shires were first created there were quite a number of differences between the powers and functions of a shire council and a municipal council. Every change has tended to bring the two bodies more into line, and there is practically no difference between the two except in regard to their powers of borrowing and rating.
In a shire council the limit that may be borrowed is three times the annual income of the shire. Ku-rlng-gai could borrow about £300,000. As a municipality its limit of loans would be 20 per cent, of the U.C.V., or about £700,000.
In regard to rating, a shire has a limit in its general rate, but is absolutely unlimited in the amount it levies as special and local rates. As a municipality it would be able to levy a higher general rate, but would be limited as to special and local rates. Unless certain ratepayers of Ku-ring-gai imagine that the new council intends to commence an orgy of borrowing, it is hard to understand the opposition to the proposal.
SUBDIVISION SALES.
The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 11 October 1930
This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Hardie and Gorman Proprietary, Limited (in conjunction with Richardson and Wrench, Limited, and Raine and Horne, Limited), will offer at auction, under Instructions from the Ku-ring-gai Council, the Pymble Recreation Estate, Pymble, comprising sixty-five home sites, having frontages to the reserve, and the site for the new cricket oval, and close to the Pymble golf links.
The title Is Torrens. The terms are easy; 5 per cent deposit, subject to a minimum of £10, balance in twenty equal quarterly instalments, with Interest at 6 percent per annum.
DIVIDED CONTROL SPOILS OUR SCENERY
The Sunday Herald, Sunday 28 December 1952
This is an extract from a lengthy article lamenting different council policies in regard to tree preservation.
SYDNEY-one of the most beautiful sites for a city in the world-from the air looks as though it is suffering from a disease which causes' galloping baldness. There is a flourishing crop of trees in some suburbs ; others are as bare as a bleached skull.
What, if anything, is being done to arrest this denudation or to bring about the "higher standard of landscape beauty" which is one of the professed aims of the Cumberland County Council?
South of the city is an arboreal wilderness, dreary wastes without an acre of shade in a square mile, to the west, some green strips alternating with arid patches. The eastern suburbs are better, but not as verdant as such an area, built up as it is, could be. Only to the north and north-west has any real success been achieved in making Sydney into a green and pleasant landscape.
There are, to be sure, some dreadfully thin patches, as far as Chatswood, and Northbridge has substituted quasi-Hollywood homes for what was once a shady peninsula. And beyond Waitara the wavy and luxuriant growth of the "silver tail" suburbs gives way to the shiny pate of the highlands between it and the Hawkesbury.
But in between, the loving care of Ku-ring-gai Council and its tree-conscious residents have made the northern rises a perfect example of civic grooming; suburbs which could not be bettered anywhere else in the world.
Kuring-gai Mayor Defends Regalia
The Sunday Herald, Tuesday 17 August 1954
Ten of the 12 aldermen of Kuring gai Council are in favour of wearing robes, the Mayor, Alderman H. T. Cornish, said last night.
The two dissentients, Aldermen J. R. S. Malloch and G. Ball, said on Sunday they were against the robes which, Alderman Ball said, would probably involve the council in total expenditure of £1,000.
Alderman Cornish said the robes would not cost anything like £1,000.
"We have received a quotation for a wig for the Town Clerk and robes for the Town Clerk and aldermen for a total outlay of £131/5/," he said.
"As the robes will last at least ten years and be worn by successive aldermen, the annual cost will be a minute portion of council revenue.
"We received a quotation of £185 for a mayoral chain.
ADDS DIGNITY
“The idea of wearing robes is to set a high standard in the conduct of meetings and official functions, such as naturalisation ceremonies.
"I think robes add dignity to civic office.
"We are not very concerned what other councils do. Ku- ring-gai is entitled to set its own traditions. Mayoral robes have been worn for many years.
"Council's decision to have robes cannot be classed as an extravagance.
"Our rates have been at the same level for the past three years."
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