C.p. Candidate for Liverpool Plains
At a meeting of the Liverpool Plains Electorate Council at Scone recently, Mr. Cleve Slack-smith, of Lochmor, Premer, was endorsed…
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Politics & elections, 1947
437 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 22
U. S. Request On The Polish Elections
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Ru[?] and Britain are being urged by the United States to Join with it in demanding that the Polish…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water Board Election
The Hunter District Water Board advised Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day that an election to re[resent the first…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Calling of fresh nomination’s in the ballot for president of the Miners’ Federation, [?] with the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' President Not for Re-election Mr. Wells to Resign
The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) decided yesterday not to stand for re-election in the new ballot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liverpool Plains Electorate Mr. C Slack-smith Country Party Candidate
Mr. Cleve Slack-Smith, the endorsed Country Party candidate to oppose Mr. R. B. Nott, MLA, in Liverpool Plains electorate at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Non-school Candidates Sit for Individual Subjects
A number of non-school students attended the Leaving Certificate examination in one, two, or more subjects. Results are given below…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Senate Elections How the Electoral System Should Be Reformed
It is generally recognised that the Senate system of counting ballot papers is fundamentally unsound. From the 30th June next the Senate will consist…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Federation Many Candidates for Leadership
It is expected that the number of candidates for the President of the Miners', Federation will…
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TEHERAN, Jan. 18.—Dr. Mohammed Mosadega, leader of the independent coalition parties opposing the Premier, the Suitanch’s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last Hope Of Free Polish Elections Vanishes
WARSAW, January 15.—Although the Polish President, M. Beirut, yesterday denied to the Press that allegations in the British and American Notes to Poland, that the elections to be held next Sunday were not free, were correct, the leader of the Polish Peasant Party, Mr Mikolajcyk asserts that the last hope of a free and unfettered election…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clear-cut Issue for Polish Voters Elections on January 19
WARSAW—(Associated Press)—Soviet-backed Poland, long the centre of diplomatic disagreements between powers of the east and west, will hold her first general elections since 1935 on Sunday, January 19, to choose a government by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russia Aloof From Polish Election Protest
LONDON, January 16.—An American proposal that Rossia should join with Britain and America in making representation to the Polish Government about the conduct of next Saturday’s polish elections has been flatly rejected by Russia This was revealed when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Senate Elections. How the Electoral System Should Be Reformed
It is generally recognised that the Senate system of counting ballot papers is fundamentally unsound. Fromthe 30th June next the Senate will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →135 Polish Candidates Arrested
LONDON, January 17.— Polling figures for the Polish Peasant Party at the general elections on Sunday next have been “fixed” at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →M. Auriol Elected President of France Six Candidates Took Part in The Ballot
PARIS, January 18.— Elected earlier in the week as President of the National Assembly, M. Vincent Auriol, French Socialist, was last night chosen as President of the Republic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Democrats Win Elections in Persia
TEHERAN, January 20.—Voting for the Teheran area in the Persian general elections closed without incident on Saturday night a week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move For Annulment Of The Polish Elections Not “Tree And Unfettered” Says Peasant Party Leader
LONDON, January 20.—Annulment of the Polish general elections on the ground that they were not “free and unfettered” as required by the “Big Three will be demanded by the leader of the Polish Peasant Party, M. Mikolajczyk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Annulment in Polish Elections Demanded
Leader of the Polish Peasant Party (Mikolajezyk) will demand that the Polish general elections, which began yesterday, be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Could Not Get Into Parliament House with Shorts
An interstate visitor lodged a complaint that, because he was wearing khaki shorts which, he said, were neat and tailored to measure, he was…
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