Bandon Grove Election Night Dance
A grand holiday night dance will be be held in Bandon Grove Hall on Saturday night next, May 3. Shelton's bus will transport patrons from…
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Politics & elections, 1947
437 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 22
No Redress for Libels Uttered in Parliament Query In House On Mr. Abbott’s Charges
CANBERRA Wednesday.—“I have always made it a practice to avoid saying in this House what I would not attempt to say on a street corner,” said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) in stating that there appeared to be no legal redreas…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—The Minister for Works. Mr. Cahlil, denied last night that the official opening by him of the Wyangala…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broadcast of State Election Figures
The Australian Broadcasting Commission will broadcast progress results In the NSW State elections throughout Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Popular Girl Candidates Golding Too Much Back
People In sore districts were losing interest in the Maitland Ambulance popular [?] competition because committee were holding too much money back, the Appeal Organiser (Dep. Supt. L. G. R[?] said today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Menzies Accused Of Election-Eve Stunt Renews Demand for Action in Victoria
CANBERRA, Friday.—When the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Menzies, in the House of Representatives last night repeated his demand for non-union labour, and Government protection for it, in the Victorian industrial dispute he was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir Earle Page’s Comment on State Election
GRAFTON, Monday.—A feature of the elections was that N.S.W. north of Newcastle solidly rejected the labour Government, said Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Queensland Elections
BRISBANE, Monday.—Latest figures in the Queensland elections give Labour 86 seats as against 36 previously…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—No further figures are available for the State elections until later to-day, and there is expected to be very little change…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Election Results Baddeley and Booth Returned By Large Majorities
Labor showed its loyalty to the cause on the Coalfields by returning Messrs. Baddeley and Booth for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Elections. D'arcy Rose Retains Seat. Increased Majority
The State election, so far as Muswellbrook was concerned, passed off very quitely. From early morning representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ban Did Not Debar Communists From Elections
Council’s ban on the Communist Party would not [?] the party from participating in the municipal elections in December, the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. A. Howarth Returned To Parliament
The final result for the Maitland electorate were declared today by the Returning Officer Mr. T. Cooney), the figures giving Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Election Notes Dungog Booth
Everything went smoothly at Dungog polling booth on Saturday. The Chief (Mr, J. E. Murray) and his Deputy (Mr. F. H. Robinson) had just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Election Figures for Cessnock
CESSNOCK, Friday.—The returning officer for the Cessnock electorate, Mr. G. Richards, made available to-day the final figures…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Believe Truman Is Regaining Status Presidential Election Hopes
WASHINGTON—(Associated Press)—President Harry S. Truman’s “inner circle” of observers is convinced that he is steadily regaining political stature at the close of his second year in the White House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Egg Board Election
The Chief of the Division of Marketing and Agricultural Economics. Department of Agriculture, states that a poll of producers will be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communist View Of Election Results Statement by Mr. H. Wilkinson, Campaign Director
The return of the McGirr Labor Government with a large majority over the antilabor opposition, represents a victory for the whole Australian Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Photos of Candidates in the Maitland Ambulance Popular Girl Competition
Violet Adams. Zone 4. Gwen Royce Zone 7…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A State Labour Caucus meeting will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday when the new Cabinet will be…
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