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Hunter Valley · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1948

274 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 14

US Presidential Election

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, July 8 .— Mr. James Rowe, one of the leaders of the powerful New York delegation to the Democratic…

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Elections in Holland

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 1

AMSTERDAM, July 8.—With nearly 200,000 votes conducted of the estimated five million votes the Roman Catholic People’s Party was…

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Compromise on Hanging Clause Tabled in British Parliament

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 8

The British Home Secretary (Mr. Chuter Ede) tabled in the House of Commons the Government's compromise clause on…

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Candidate for President

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 1

PHILADELPHIA, July 12. — Senator Claude Pepper, of Florida, last night announced that be is a candidate for the…

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Truman Certain for Presidency Candidate Efforts to Defeat Nomination Have Failed

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 2

The Democratic Convention is certain to nominate President Truman for another term…

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U.N.O. Defied in Korean Elections

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 1

North Korea Radio (Soviet zone) announced that the North Korea people's committee would hold elections on August 28 to…

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Support For ALP Candidate

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—More than 80 school teachers have offered to assist Mr. H. W. Oxford, ALP candidate in the Kogarah…

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EDITORIAL. An Important By-Election

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 2

IN the political arena interest this weekend will centre around the by-election for the Kogarah State seat, made necessary by the death of the former member, Mr. W. M. Currey, V.C…

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To-day’s Leader: An Important. By Election Tense Reports From Catania

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 1

LONDON, July 15.—Tense reports from Catania, Sicily, say that Signor Pallante’s family have barricaded themselves in…

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‘Queen of the Hunter’ Campaign Launched Three Candidates for Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club Appeal

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 3

The “Queen of the Hunter” competition was launched last night at meeting of the Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club, when three candidates were nominated. They were Miss Laurel Mead (Rural areas), Miss Pat…

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The Kogarah By-election

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday. — Voting in the State by election at Kogarah began qul[?] this morning, but public interest in the result which will…

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Kogarah By-election Liberal Victory

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Final figures for the Kogarah by-election on Saturday were:— D. D. Cross (Lib.). 12,829…

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ALP Candidates Rejected

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr J. Young a United Trades, Unions candidate, has been elected President of the Sydney Waterside…

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Kogarah By-election Big Landslide

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 21 July 1948 · page 2

The Liberal candidate, Mr. Cross, is leading the Labour candidate, Mr. Oxford, by nearly 1000 votes. The by-election was caused by the death of…

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Kogarah By-election

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 2

The Liberal win. by a substantial majority at Kogarah, last Saturday is a very hopeful sig[?] that the electors have had enough of the injurious form of economics this…

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Queen of the Hunter Candidates

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 3

Twenty-three year old Miss Patricia ivies, the commerce and industry candidate in the Queen of the Hunter Lamentation, which is being run for Maitland Police citizens Boys’ Club, served for 2½ years during the war with…

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Derby Candidates

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Victorian representation in the £10,000 A.J.C. Derby this year will be the strangest since the war. Runners…

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Kearsley by Election

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 5

An election to fill the vacancy on the Kearsley Shire Council, due to the death of Councilor Kem[?]ell representative of B. riding will be held on…

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Demonstration Against Prices Crowd Gathers Outside Parliament House

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 2

About 250 people demonstrated outside Parliament House when the Legislative Assembly resumed last week…

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By-election Pamphlet Causes Three Men to Be Fined

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 3

Three men were convicted at Central, Summons Court on Wednesday of last, week in the first prosecutions brought under the…

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