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Blue Mountains · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1920

28 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 2

Local and General Triennnal Election

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 9 January 1920 · page 2

Elsewhere, Town Clerk Hendry gives timely notice of the procedure to be observed by intending candidates at the forthcoming Council…

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Birth of Blackheath. the First Election. To the Ratepayers of the Municipality of Blackheath. Ladies and Gentlemen,—

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 5

After years of patient and persistent effort, Blackheath comes into its own. "hopes-over," as it were, from being the Cinderella of the Shire…

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The Triennial Elections

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 16 January 1920 · page 4

There are 3038 names on the Katoomba Electoral roll, but fully 1000 of the absentees will be unable to vote. Some are in Heaven, others…

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The Much-maligned Aldermen Six Seeking Re-election

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 1

Ratepayers of Katoomba:— It would be MADNESS to entrust the fate of the Municipality to NINE NEW WORK at the present juncture. Much BIG WORK IT IS TEN YEARS since writer first mixed in Local Authority work in the Mountain Capital. A decade is a fair span in any man's life, and when a close application over that period is given…

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German Candidates

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 7

A lively few has occurred at Culcairn in connection with the candidature of two former internees, Herman A. Peach, and Johann…

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Local and General Shire Triennial Elections

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 January 1920 · page 4

The B.M. Shire is out with the preliminary announcement of its annual election, to be held on Saturday, 28th February. Unlike the…

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The Municipal Elections. Katoomba and Blackheath

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

The Municipal Elections are with us, and the Mountains are agog with excitment, Katoomba seething with strife, and Blackheath bristling with the bustle of prospective candidates,…

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Current Topics. State Elections

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3

Are you on tho roll? The State elections will be held in March, and the time is drawing nigh In which to qualify. The Bathurst electorate…

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Election Sidelights

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 5

Ex-Ald. Crawford: I've been solidly. stoushed. Nine, ten—OUT!!! Ald. Tabrett: The vote is not mine; I feel it is in honor of my old dad…

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Election Echoes

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 3

Lithgow, like Katoomba, shot out its old Council—only two of the dozen surviving the ballot. Mudgee's top vote was 425; and…

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This State Elections

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 8

Sir,—The electoral law in N.S.W. now gives the people much greater freedom than they have had int he past in electing a new Parliament…

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Just a Word Elections: Saturday, March 20

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 4

Mrs E. A. K. Hudson was in town over the week, looking younger than ever. At St. Hilda's, on Sunday night…

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Nationalist Candidates for Bathurst Electorate

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 3

The first of the Nattonalists, the hon the State Treasurer, and Minister for Mines, is too well and favorably known to need any introduction as other politician, or Minister of the Crown. He catered the arona back in 1894, and has been hard at it ever since, winning his way to a…

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The Bathurst Seat Candidates in the Field for 'Em and Agin 'Em

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 1

Mr Fitzpatrick, yet they had a machine of their own to which every member had to pledge himself for three years. It was a fact that men…

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State Elections Polling Day—Saturday, March 20 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Instructions How to Vote Number for Every Candidate

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

The State election will take place on Saturday, March 20, and tho polling, booths will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A change has been made in the manner of…

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The State Elections. Case for Progressives. Sap. Roger's Candidature

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 7

Over the week, Supper A. A. Rogers, one of the Progressive candidates for the Buthurst seat, has been busy expounding on the…

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About the Elections

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 3

A "wag" pens the following in a city print:—"I've studied up instructions as to what I have to do, to pick a bunch for Parliament that…

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Federals Re-forming. Election of Officers

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 8

Footballers are getting things ship-shape for the approaching season. Last wools the Federals sounded the "fall-in" at Shield's sporting…

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The State Elections. Labor's Likely Lead. Bathurst Unaltered

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

The State election was held on Saturday last, and, locally, passed off very quietly. Similar conditions apparently prevailed In other centres,…

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Shire Ouster Action Mathews v. Savage Looks Like an Election

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 4 June 1920 · page 4

On Friday last, at the instance of Mr. Patrick Mathews, of Lakeman Mr. Delohery (instructed by Mr. R. A. Monro King, of Sydney and Katoomba) applied to His Honor, Mr…

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