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Politics & elections, 1920

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The National Candidates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

The Hon Walter Bennett wires us as follows:—"Kindly contradict that I was candidate for selection at the National Conference on Wednesday. My name was on the…

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East Maitland Municipal Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Captain J. J. Fernon is soliciting the votes of the ratepayers in East Maitland at the municipal election to-morrow. He advices all to vote for the individual, and not…

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To-morrow's Elections. Public Probity Needed. High Sense of Public Duty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

To-morrow, local government electors throughout the State will be called upon to choose the men who are to represent them for the next three years in the positions of alderman of municipalities, and councillors of shires. A city contemporary, after summing up the new and enlarged powers conferred by the new Act, to which much…

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The Municipal Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Saturday next will be the actual beginning of an important period in the history of local government of New South Wales (writes our Muswellbrook correspondent), and electors in…

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Municipal Elections. Two Progressives

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

At a meeting of soldiers on Tuesday night for the purpose of considering the candidature of Messrs Dobbinson and Robinson for the…

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Our Sydney Letter. The Elections

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 3

Politically, the coming elections monopolise attention. The Premier, with superhuman energy, is working to bring off another National win…

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Correspondence. Scone Municipal Election, 1920. (To the Editor)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

Sir,—Having made a statement (the report of which appeared in the "Advocate') at a meeting of the local Progress Association some…

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The Shire Elections

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 3

To-morrow the ratepayers will be called upon to select representatives by ballot for the ensuing three years. In C Riding of the shire two councillors…

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Popular Candidate

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 5

Mr. V. A. Freeman Meeks, who is a candidate for the Presidency of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League (N.S.W.) is a son of the Hon…

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Polling at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 4

According to old hands there has not been so much enthusiasm shown in connection with municipal elections at East Maitland as there was to-day since the system of equality of…

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Muswellbrook Chronicle Saturday. Jan. 31, 1920 The Municipal Election

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 2

The triennial election of aldermen for Muswellbrook Municipality takes place to-day, and electors have the duty placed upon…

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Ex-internees As Shire Candidates. Returned Soldiers' Emphatic Protest

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 1

A deputation from the New South wales Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League waited upon Mr J. D. Fitzgerald Minister for Local…

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Kurri Hospital Elections

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 4

The result of the ballot in connection with the annual election of office-bearers of the Kurri Kurri District Hospital was as follows: President, Mr. G. Booth 1192,…

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The Municipal Elections. West Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 4

The interest in the elections in West Maitland is greater than has been the case for a number of years. This is evidenced by the number of candidates…

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The National Candidates

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 4

A conference of delegates from National Associations throughout the new Maitland State electorate was held at West Maitland on Wednesday evening,…

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The State Elections

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 January 1920 · page 4

The State elections will be held within the next few weeks. The leader of the Opposition (Mr John Storey, M.L.A.) strongly urges all who have neglected…

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Municipal Elections Saturday's Polling. West Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 6

Never before in the history of West Maitland was so much interest shown in the result of the polling for aldermen in connection with the West Maitland Municipal…

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National Candidates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 4

The executive of the National Party has almost completed the task of selecting candidates for the forthcoming elections. For Maitland Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson and…

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Local Government Elections. the New Era Opens. West Maitland's New Team

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 February 1920 · page 4

With the local government elections which took place on Saturday, the new era in local government, brought about by the passing of the new and bulky Local Government Act, may be said fairly to have commenced. The cessation of many of the war activities that absorbed so much public attention during the period of the…

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Municipal Elections. Taree. Taree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 February 1920 · page 4

The result of the municipal elections, was the election of Messrs. W. Basham, W. Wrigley, G. Clerk, M. Parker, L. O. Martin, A. Saxby, W. Chapman, W. B. Batger, E. L…

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