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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1920

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Balmain Election. Petitions Against Validity Dismissed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 3

The elections and Qualifications Committee in dismissing the potitions concerning the validity of the recent general election at Balmain, decided…

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Duntroon College. Dearth of Candidates

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 5

At the annual meeting of the Australian National Defonce League the following letter was received from Mr V. J. Rundell Miles, a member of the…

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State Parliament. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1920 · page 6

As soon as formal business was disposed of in the Assembly yesterday afternoon Mr. Wearne asked the Premier if he was in a position to say what steps…

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Federal Parliament. House Op Representatives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1920 · page 3

In the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, informed Mr. Burchell (W.A.) that a…

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Federal Parliament. the Senate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 3

In the Senate yesterday the debate on the second reading of the Northern Territory Representation Bill was resumed…

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State Parliament. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 7

Mr. Minahan, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, gave notice that he would move for leave on next sitting day to bring in a Bill to amend the…

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Municipal Election. Probable Candidates

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 2

Nominations to fill the two vacancies in the Municipal Council were not closed as we went to press and it was not definitely known who are to…

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Late Mr. G. S. Briner. References in Parliament

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1920 · page 9

Sympathetic references to the late Mr. G. S. Briner, M.L.A., wore ninde in the Legislative Assembly last week. The Premier (Mr. Storey) moved,…

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U.S.A. Elections. Armed Outrages. Vancouver, Sept. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1920 · page 5

A message to Chiengo states that during the primary voting in illinois for the Presidential election, a ward-worker was killed by a policeman, and…

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Balmain Election. Petitions Against Validity Dismissed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1920 · page 9

The elections and Qualifications Committee dismissing the petitions concerning: the validity of the recent general, election at Balmain decided…

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Queensland Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1920 · page 4

Queensland is in the throes of a State parliament general election, on an issue, that is fortunately for Australia without precedent in Australian…

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Municipal Election Polling Day, Saturday 25Th

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 2

Next Saturday will be polling day for the Municipal election which has been occasioned by tho resignation, of ex-Ald Cox and Do Costa. The…

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Swedish Elections. Red's Crushing Defeat. London, Sept. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Stockholm reports that the Swedish Reds sustained a crushing defeat at the general election. Not a single…

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State Parliament. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 6

When the Assembly met yesterday, Mr. Levy, Speaker, announced receipt of the certificate of the death of Mr. Briner, the member for Oxley,…

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Federal Parliament. House of Representatives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 3

In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Page (Queensland) was loudly cheered on entering the Chamber…

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Election a Certainty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 5

A message from Paris says that influential measures are being taken to induce M. Millerand to withdraw his refusal to stand for the Presidency…

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State Parliament. Legislative Assembly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 September 1920 · page 3

Mr. Levy, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was unavoidably absent from his post yesterday afternoon. An announcement to that…

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Federal Parliament. House of Representatives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 September 1920 · page 6

In the House yesterday, Mr. Maloney (Vic.) asked that the law relating to Jewish women married to men born in Palestine be…

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Federal Parliament. the Senate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 6

In the Senate yesterday the Arbitration Bill passed all its stages. The debate on the second reading of the New Guinea Bill was resumed by…

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State Parliament. Legislative Council

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 3

In the Council yesterday, Mr. Wilson gave notice of his intention to ask the Vice-President of the Executive Council if the Hotel…

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