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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1941

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Campaign Is Quiet Election Day To-Morrow

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 3

After one of the quietest election campaigns on record, Goulburn electors will go to the polls between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday to…

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Letters To The Post (To the Editor) Election Protest

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2

Election Protest. Sir,—Mr. Tully's letter, under the caption. "Election Protest," calls for the strongest condemnation. To drag…

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The Election

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 4

So far as the elections are concerned we, like the general public, will be glad when they are over so that the State can turn once…

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The Elections Labour’s Sweeping Victory Four Ministers Defeated Mr. Sheahan Elected For Yass

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 2

The State elections held on Saturday resulted in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party. Mr. W. F. Sheahan (Labour)…

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Mr. Ardill and Election

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 May 1941 · page 3

On Saturday night after Mr. Tully had returned thanks to the electors for his re-election, his principal op[?]ent, Mr. George Ardill, also spoke…

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Golspie Quiet Polling Day

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 May 1941 · page 1

GOLSPIE: Polling at the local booth on Election Day passed off uneventfully, Electors arrived at various times…

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Gundaroo State Elections

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 May 1941 · page 5

GUNDAROO: Polling Day passed off quietly, voters registering their votes and returning home…

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First Aid Classes Candidates Successful 100 Per Cent. Pass

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 14 May 1941 · page 5

For some months past Drs. Burns and Broadbent have conducted first aid classes for local women and recently the students,…

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State Elections Government Beaten 56 Seats to Labor "Bill" Sheahan Wins Yass Seat

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 3

The people of New South Wales in the most sensational poll ever recorded in the State have returned Labor to office…

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MR. J. TULLY Election Count Majority

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 4

As the result of a re-check of previous counts, and the addition of another 395 absentee votes, the load established by Mr. J. M,…

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Poll Declared Re-Election Of Mr. Tully

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 3

Only one of the three candidates who contested the Goulburn seat at the State Elections was present at the declaration of the…

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Parliament to Meet Election Of Speaker

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: The State Parliament will be opened on Wednesday by three Commissioners appointed by the State Governor, Lord Wakeshurst,…

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In Parliament Former S.P.C. Students

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 May 1941 · page 2

Ex-students of St. Patrick's College are finding cause for jubilation in the fact that two of their number have been…

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National Government Clash in Federal Parliament

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 5

A clash between the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, and Labour members occurred in the House of Representatives yesterday, when…

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Parliament Meets New Speaker Is Elected

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 May 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: The new State Parliament met yesterday for the first the since the elections, and was opened formally…

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Evening Classes For Air Force Candidates

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 2

IT is proposed to establish evening classes in Mathematics (Arithmetic, Algebra and Trigonometry) and in…

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Victory Social A.l.p. Celebrates Its Great Election Success Over 100 Couples Attend

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 4

The local branch of the A.L.P. conducted a euchre party and social in the Mechanics' Institute, Harden, on Friday night last, to celebrate the…

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Not Yet Yass-Canberra Railway Questions in Parliament

Yass Tribune-Courier · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

The Yass-Canberra railway proposition was revived in the Federal Parliament on May 28—but just temporarily, as might be…

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P.p. Board Election

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1941 · page 1

Two nominations, that of Mr J. J. Garry, "Garryowen," Binalong, and Mr B. J. Stocks "Linden Hills" Cunningar, have been received to fill the…

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L.g. Elections Shire Clerk's Stand Against Existing Ordinance

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 1

The Shire President (Cr. King) told council on Thursday last that Shires' Conference had failed to accept Crookwell's motion for…

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