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Politics & elections, 1950

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Labour Out To Win Gosford Electorate Choice Of Candidate Awaits Decision By Mr. Finnan

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 1

The Labor Party will contest the newly created Gosford seat at the forthcoming State elections, but no decision has yet been made about a candidate…

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Gosford Shire Will Vote On World Govt. Next Week Organisers Finalising Plans For Polling Arrangements

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 1

Thousands of residents of the Gosford shire will be asked next week what they think of the movement for World Government. Results of the poll are being awaited in many…

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Liberals Pick Candidate On March 4

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 1

The Liberal Party candidate , to contest the Gosford electorate at the forth coming State elections will be chosen…

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Liberal Candidate Selected For Gosford

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

Mr Harold Ernest Jackson, company director, of Terrigal, is the Liberal Party candidate for the new Gosford State…

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Mr Egan Endorsed As Labor Candidate

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 1

Mr John Patrick Egan, of Woy Woy, has been endorsed as the official Labor candidate for the Gosford electorate for…

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Fadden Assures Parliament Building Societies Will Receive Further Finance Negotiations Begin For Gosford No. 3 Society's Loan

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 1

The Federal Treasurer, Mr Fadden, gave an assurance in Parliament yesterday that further finance would be available for building societies. Negotiations have commenced for financing…

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Shire President Nominates For Gosford Seat Stands As Unendorsed Liberal Party Candidate

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1

President of the Gosford Shire Council, Cr. George Downes, announced this morning that he would contest the Gosford electorate as an unendorsed Liberal Party candidate at the…

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Country Party To Contest Gosford State Electorate Nomination Lodged At Last Minute: 6 Candidates Now

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 1

The Country Party lodged a last minute nomination for the Gosford State seat yesterday. This brought the number of nominations for the seat to six…

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Postal Votes For State Election

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 1

A postal vote for the State elections on June 17 can be cast only by an elector whose address on the electoral roll is more than five…

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Gosford Women's Branch Passes Vote Of Confidence In Liberal Candidate

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 1

Gosford Women's Branch of the Liberal Party passed a vote of confidence in Mr H. E. Jackson, endorsed Liberal…

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Four Candidates For Gosford Seat At Open Air Meetings

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 4

Four candidates for the Gosford electorate spoke to meetings at the corner of Mann and William Streets, Gosford, on Saturday and Monday…

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Election Campaign Warms Up In Gosford Electorate Fadden, Anthony And Finnan To Speak: Treatt's Address

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 1

With the State elections only 11 days off, the six candidates for the Gosford seat are campaigning vigorously. The leader of the State Parliamentary Liberal…

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Election Speeches By Candidates For Gosford Seat

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 3

The Postmaster General, Mr Anthony, addressed a meeting at The Entrance on Monday in support of Mr W. J. Wright, Country Party candidate for the Gosford State seat. Mr S. A. Storey,…

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17,435 Electors To Vote For 6 Candidates 42Booths,134Officials For Gosford Poll On

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 1

A total of 17,435 electors will go to the polls in the Gosford electorate next Saturday. This is approximately 2000 more than voted in the same area at the 1947 State elections when…

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Letters To The Editor Candidate's Thanks

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 4

The campaign for the 1950 State elections is now drawing to a close and tomorrow the people…

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Progress Assn. Move On Ccl. Candidates

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 1

The secretary was instructed at a meeting of the Erina-Springfield-East Gosford Progress Association on Monday night to…

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Gosford Poll To Be Declared Next Monday Lib. Candidate Goes Further Ahead

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 1

The poll for the Gosford State electorate would be declared next Monday, the Returning Officer, Mr G. A. Walpole, announced this morning. With the counting of all but a few hundred…

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Members Of Parliament At Annual Dinner

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 1

Messrs Harold Jackson, MLA (left) and Roger Dean, MHR (right) were guests of honour at the annual dinner of the Gosford District Chamber of Commerce. The president. Mr L. W. Graham (centre) welcomed them. Photo,…

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APPU Offer To Aid Rural Queen Candidate

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 3

Gosford APPU citrus section decided on Thursday night to write to the Gosford-Wyong branch of the Citrus Growers'…

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First Citrus Queen Candidate

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 1

Mrs A. P. Matthews is the first candidate to be nominated for this year's Citrus Festival Queen Competition. She was unanimously chosen to represent the Town and Services'…

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