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Mid North Coast · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1909

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Forgot the Candidate

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 2

"What do the voters of your community think of our candidate?" asked the campaigner. "Well," answered Farmer…

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Kempsey Municipal Council. Election of Mayor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 13

A SPECIAL meeting of the above Council was held on Tuesday evening evening last for the purpose of electing a mayor in the room of Mr…

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The Next British Elections

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 3

Mr. WINSTON CHCRCHILL, Prosident of the Board of Trsde, speaking in Birmingham, regretted that the great home militant Radicalism had fallen into the grip of a…

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Municipal Election

Macleay Argus · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 11

NOMINATIONS of candidates to fill the extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. J. R. Marrack and Mr. A. A. Kemp closed with the…

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Decadence of Parliament

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 6

SPEAKING at the annual pionic of the employees of the City Council, Alderman R.D. Meagher, M.L.A., said that he has arrived at the conclusion that the older…

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Scene in Canadian Parliament

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

A lively scone took place in the Canadian House of Commons in consequence of a newspaper telegram which was alleged to have been sent…

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Municipal Election. Official Nomination

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

The official nomination of candidates in connection with the forthcoming election to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. J. R. Marrack and Mr. A. A. Kemp…

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Forgot the Candidate

Macleay Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 5

"What do the voters of your community think of our candidate," asked the campaigner. "Well," answered Farmer…

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Labor Organising for State Elections

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 3

It is generally recognised in labor [?]es that the next State election will offer better opportunity than past ones, for a big effort is to be made to [?] a majority at the…

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A British Precedent Ladies Gage for the French Parliament

Nambucca News · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7

I have just been hearing, and talking part in, a discussion, in the lobbies of the Chamber of Deputies on "ladies' cages." It arose from an…

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An Election Story

Nambucca News · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 3

A politician who was making a house-to-house canvass some years ago came to a prosperous-looking farmhouse at a cross-road when he…

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Shire Council. Election of President

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 3

A SPECIAL meeting of the Shire Council was held on Monday last in the Council Rooms, for the purpose of electing a President for the ensuing…

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Shire Council Meeting. Election of President

Nambucca News · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 5

A SPECIAL meeting of the Council to elect a President tor the ensuing year was held on Tuesday at noon, when all the Councillors were present…

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Election of Mayor

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 February 1909 · page 2

A special meeting of the Port Macquarie Municipal Council was held in the Town Hall on Saturday last, for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the current year…

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General Election

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 18 February 1909 · page 3

Mr. Joseph Albert Pesse, Junior Lord of the Treasury, addressing a meeting at Plymouth, declared that a general election would come before…

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Election of Mayor

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 18 February 1909 · page 6

A special mooting of the Council was held after the general meeting on Friday night for the purpose of, electing a Mayor for the ensuing year…

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Imperial Parliament

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 11

Thirty amendments have been tabled in connection with the address-in-reply in the British House of Commons. Mr. Barnes moved an amendment in which…

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The Mayoral Election

Macleay Argus · Saturday 20 February 1909 · page 10

WE venture to assert that the majority of the ratepayers will endorse the action of the aldermen on Friday last week in electing Ald. J. F. Small to…

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The Labor Parliament

Nambucca News · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 4

That very interesting gathering, the Labor League Conference, appears to have suffered through inadequate reporting; even the…

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State Parliament

Macleay Argus · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 11

The Parliament of New South Wales has been further prorogued until April 27th…

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