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Blue Mountains · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1916

9 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Election of Mayor and President. Probable and Particulars

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 8

Ones again the whirling of time brings round the annual election of the civic head of our Local Authority bodies. For the Shire, it is rumoured…

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The Blue Mountains Shire. Election of President. Cr. Wall's Record

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 3

For the fourth year in succession Cr. J. T. Wall has been elected to control the destinies of the Blue Mountains Shire. It was anticipated that the…

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Extraordinary Election. W. A. Crawford Returned

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 3

On Saturday last a poll was taken to see who would fill the vacant chair in the local Council, caused by the forced retirement of Aid. C. H. E. Lindeman,…

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Katoomba Municipal Election

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 5

In acknowledging my return at the head of Saturday's Poll, I desire to publicly thank the ratepayers who nominated me for the position and all who accorded…

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Local and General. State Elections, 1916

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 14 April 1916 · page 4

Elsewhere, Mr. Archdale Purkhill announces that candidates intending to submit their names for selection in the Liberal interest at the next general…

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The Hartley Election

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 1

Although the general feeling of the electors of Australia, and N.S.W. in particular, is that the State Houses of Parliament should be abolished, or…

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The Triennial Elections. Are You on the Roll?

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 November 1916 · page 3

The triennial elections of the local Municipal Council and the Blue Mountains Shire Council are fixed for January next, and the all-important question for…

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Prolongation of Parliament

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 6

Dear Editor.—As a constant browser in your breezy and progressive columns. I was somewhat dismayed with your leader, "Prolongation for a Year." Whatever the…

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Prolongation of Parliament

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 December 1916 · page 3

Sir,—Your lengthy reply to my humble protest against the prolongation of the life of Parliament covered such a number of controversial subjects that an…

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