SYDNEY CITY COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18416, 24 June 1925, Page 10

SYDNEY CITY COUNCIL.

MUNICIPAL LABOUR PLATFORM. (FEOJI OTTB OWN . CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, June 18. With a Lalbour Government in power, it is almost a certainty that the Labour caucus in the City Council will now proceed 'to enforce even more strongly the platform on which it has set its heart. One of the first objects is a Greater Sydney scheme, to be achieved either by the absorption of adjoining municipalities, or by the passing of special legislation, fixing tho boundaries of a Greater Sydney, and tho constitution of a Greater SydneyCouncil, with election to it on adult suffrago. Another aim is to enlarge tho trading scope of the municipal garage, so as to include the control of the petrol service stations, and to make the supply of petrol on the streets of Sydney a City Council monopoly. This, of course, will not please the motor traders, hut the Labour caucus, in the exercise of its will, is not likely to be bothered by what they think. The more advanced section of the Labour aldermen believe that the Council should have control of the trams and the water and gas supplies, -but it will hardly ibe regarded as judicious to press these claims at present on the new Labour Ministry.