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

Politics & elections, 1951

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Fuller Regains Hume for Labor Country Swing Returns A.L.P. Candidate

Boorowa News · Friday 4 May 1951 · page 1

WITH APPROXIMATELY 3.000 POSTAL AND ABSENTEE VOTES STILL TO BE COUNTED, IT APPEARS ALMOST CERTAIN THAT MR. A. N. FULLER (LABOR) HAS REGAINED THE HUME SEAT FROM THE SITTING…

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Election Day at Frogmore Voting—c.w.a. Stall Success—tennis

Boorowa News · Friday 4 May 1951 · page 4

For the first time in years over 100 ordinary voters cast their votes at Frogmore…

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Hospital Auxiliary's Successful Street Stall £53 Raised From Effort On Election Day

Boorowa News · Friday 4 May 1951 · page 5

The Boorowa Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary conducted a very successful Street Stall in Marsden Street on Election Day (Saturday last) when an amount of £53 was raised from the effort…

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Federal Election Labor Win Seems Certain in Hume Mr. A. N. Fuller (Labor) seems certain to win the Hume seat from Mr. Chas. Anderson (Country Party)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 2

The Divisional Returning office said this morning there had been no further counting since Friday when the position was:…

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Potato Board By-election

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 4

Owing to the death of Mr. W. J. Lowe, the elected representative of No. 5 District of the Potato Marketing Board for the…

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Election at Wombat

Boorowa News · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 3

A man may be proceeded against for an alleged infringement of the Commonwealth Electoral Act at the…

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Returning To Korea After Election

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 May 1951 · page 1

Speaking at the declaration of the EdenMonaro poll in Goulburn on Saturday, Mr. A.G. Keys, the unsuccessful Liberal candidate, who will be returning to Korea shortly, warned that…

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Potato Marketing Board By-election

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 5

Owing to the death of Mr. W. J. Lowe, the elected representative of No. 5 District of the Potato Marketing Board for the…

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40,000 Persians Have Meeting of Protest in Parliament Square

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 1

TEHERAN, Wednesday: More than 470,000 demonstrators in Teheran last night heard speakers bitterly attack Britain and the United States while reference to Russia and its leaders was cheered. Police riot cars guarded streets leading to the scene of the demonstration in Parliament Square, but the tanks which arrived earlier in the day were not seen at the demonstration…

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De Valera May Win in Irish Elections

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 5

Early counting in the Eire general election of 147 seats for the Dail last ngiht gave De Valera's' party 24 seats against…

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City By-Election Prospects

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 1

Goulburn City Council will hold a by-election on Saturday, July 7, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ald. L. Martin…

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Electricity Election

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 1

Twenty-six shire, county, city, and municipal councils in the Central West, will next month elect a member to the Electricity…

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Parliament Rises

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: After only six weeks, the State Parliament has risen for three months and will not meet again until September…

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Elections in France

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: The latest returns in the French elections give the De Gaulle Party 117 members, other independent…

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Inter. High School Cadets at Opening of Parliament

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 1

TWO YASS CADETS were present at the opening of Parliament in Canberra last week. They were Lionel Finn and Robert…

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Local Elections

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 5

It is understood that there are several candidates for the vacancy on the Goulburn city Council caused by the…

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Auxiliary Bishop's Visit To Boorowa Parish Administers the Sacrament of Confirmation to 90 CANDIDATES Most Rev. Guilfred Young, D.D.

Boorowa News · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 1

Over the, week-end His Lordship, Most Rev. Guilfred Young. D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, carried out. an official visit of inspection of the Parish of Boorowa, and on Sunday administered the Sacrament of…

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Our Member in Parliament

Boorowa News · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 7

In the Federal Parliament last week, the Member for Hume (Mr. Arthur Fuller) asked the following question of the…

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Country Party Candidate

Boorowa News · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 7

The Young Electorate Council of the Australian Country Party at a recent meeting at Grenfell endorsed Mr. Douglas Beard…

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Parliament

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 2

Speaking in the House of Representatives the other evening, the new member for Canberra Mr. J. Fraser,…

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