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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1947

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State Elections

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 2

WITH the Easter holidays behind us the next few weeks will see a concentration on party politics, with an…

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To-day’s Leader: State Elections Memorial Unveiled By De Gaulle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 1

PARIS, April 7.—The Communists boycotted ceremonies in the Strasbourg Cathedral yesterday at which General de Gaulle unveiled a plague…

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State Election

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 3

Campaigning for thte State election on May S will begin in earnest next week. This will allow three weeks for the…

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Postal Votes for Election

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 2

The returning officer for Maitland (Mr. T. F. Cooney) has opened his office at West Maitland courthouse and is well on…

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Coin Tables At Polling Booths

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 4

When East Maitland Red cross Society applied to place coin tables at the two polling boths in its area on May 3, Aid. E. C. Scarlett asked…

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The Candidates For Upper Hunter

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 2

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The Stockyard Parliament

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 8

Why is no systematic effort made to collect empty bottles when the glass to make new ones can only be made by using…

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Official Labour Candidate For Upper Hunter Mr. Jack Speers

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

Cr. Jack Speers, President of Gosford Shire Council, and formerly Mayor of Gosford from 1941 to 1946,…

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History and Personality of the Communist Party Candidate

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

Alderman Charles Evans was born in the little mining town of Mount Hope, Western New South Wales, in 1902. He came to Cesssnock in 1924, and started…

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Municipal Elections To-morrow. Those Entitled to Vote

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

The attention of electors is drawn to the fact that only those persons whose names appear on the municipal roll are entitled to vote at to-morrow's…

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Country Party Candidate

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

Mr. D'Arcy Rose, Country Party, and member for Upper Hunter for the past eight years, is seeking re-election at the State…

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Gloucester State Electorate Five Candidates Electors Have Wide Choice

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 3

From now on until polling day, May 3, Gloucester Electorate will be busily occupied with politics. There are five candidates in the field and…

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Australian Country Party Candidate FOR Liverpool Plains Electorate 1947 Mr. Clive Slack-smith

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 6

[?] the endorsed Australian Country Party Candidate for Liverpool Plains was born at Gunnedah in 1910, and his early years were…

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Ban on Election Speakers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 6

Sir,—Although there may be much to recommend the decision of our City Council not to [?] meetings at election time except in…

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Orderly Elections in Burma

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, April 11.—Before the final results [?] available, the leader of the [?] Anti-Fes[?] Peoples Freedom [?] (Mr…

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Gloucester Candidate Broadcasts

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

In a broadcast talk to the electors of Gloucester electorate today, Mr Darcy Began, Independent Liberal-Country Party…

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Labour Candidate at Beresfield

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 5

At Beresfield last night the Official Labour candidate for Maitland (Mr. W. F. O’Hearn) [?] attacked the Liberal Party on [?] sorry record…

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Guarantee Freedom of Speech and Liberty Bruxner Opens Country Party Election Campaign

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 4

ORANGE, Saturday.—Firing the first shot in the New South Wales election campaigns, the leader of the Country Party, M. F. Bruxner, said that if returned to power the opposition parties would conduct State affairs in accordance…

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Parliament to Be Convened

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 4

Melbourne's suburban railways carry daily about 750,000 people, including 350,000 through Flinders Street Station—the busiest station…

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200 Candidates May Fight Elections

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 1

More than 200 Candidates are expected to contest 90 seats in the Legislative Assembly at the State election on May 3…

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