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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1920

19 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Progressive Candidates for Goulbarn Electorate

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

The Progressive Council for Goulburn electorate Town Hall, Mr A.J. McDonald was in the chair…

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Elections of Mayors and Presidents

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

Under the new Local govern-ment Act, 1919, (s.27), Municipal and Shire Councils will have the whole of the month of…

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Progressive Candidate at Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 2

The Progressive Party opened its State campaign for the Goulburn electorate on Saturday evening when Mr. P. F. O'Brien,…

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The Goulburn Electorate Labor Candidates at Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 2

On Saturday evening a goodly assemblage was addressed by Messrs. J. Bailey, M.L.A, and F. Morgan two of the three…

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The State Election. Address by Mr. W. H. TOMKINS

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Tomkins, one of the Progressive candidates, addressed an audience from the balcony of the Prince of Wales hotel, Cooma,…

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The Progressive Party. Addresses by Two Candidates

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1920 · page 2

At the Victor Hall, Cooma,'on Thursday evening there was a good attendance of electors to hear the address of Lieut-Col…

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State Elections. Address by Mr. MacDONALD

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1920 · page 2

Mr. Dick Macdonald, one of the three selected Labor candidates for the Goulburu electorate delivered an open-air address in Cooma on…

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State Elections Polling Day—Saturday, March 20 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Instructions How to Vote Number for Every Candidate

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 3

The State elections will take place on Saturday, March 20, sod the polling booths will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A change has been made in the manner of…

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State Elections

The Bombala Times · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

The State elections were heid last Saturday. In Bombala there was no excitement and voters went to the booth with very little enthusiasm. In…

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Latest Election News. SYDNEY

The Bombala Times · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 1

The first preference votes at Bathurst give Dooley (L) 7339, Fitzpatrick (N) 6034, Johnston (L) 4267, Brown (P) 1928, Camfield (N) 1731, Rogers…

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N.S.W. Parliament. Election of Speaker

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

The New South Wales Parliamentary session was opened on Tuesday. There was a very…

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Parliament in the Balance

The Bombala Times · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 3

There is little doubt but that Australia is the happy hunting ground of the experimentalist. Our political history rests in a…

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Proportional Representation. Experiences of Last N.S.W. ELECTIONS

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 2

In a pamphlet of over twenty pages Mr. Archdale Parkhill, Sec, National Association, Sydney, gives the results of proportional representation as…

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Father Jerger's Noisy Advocates. Federal Parliament Uproar

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 16 July 1920 · page 2

The House of Representatives on Wednesday was the scene of a disgraceful disturbance by several women in the public gallery…

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Open Column. Divide Our State, More Local Government, No State Governors, One Federal Parliament, Etc. To the Editor

The Bombala Times · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 2

Sir,—Since writing under the above heading I have been traveling around on different lines which have been recently erected…

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Questions in Parliament

Delegate Argus · Thursday 26 August 1920 · page 2

In the House of Representative Mr. Austin Chapman asked the Postmaster-General, upon notice— 1. In view of the high price of…

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American Presidency. [Published by Arrangement.] Neither Candidate Antiliquor. Both Open to Reason

The Bombala Times · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 4

Prohibitionists in Australia have taken much comfort from the absence of a wet plank in the platform of both political parties in…

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Writs for By-Elections

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1920 · page 2

Writs for the election of members to fill the vacancies in the Oxley and Goulburn State electorates were issued…

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U. S. A. ELECTIONS (Published by Arrangement) a Wet and Dry Fight League of Nations Ignored

Delegate Argus · Thursday 7 October 1920 · page 2

Campaigning in connection with the Congressional elections, which take place in America very shortly, is now in full swing…

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