Caucus Approve Election News, Black-out
SYDNEY, Tues.: State Parliamentary Labor Caucus today [?] dorsed pro-posed changes in the electoral laws designed to…
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C P. Candidate At Jerilderie MR. & Mrs. Hugh Roberton Entertained
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Roberton were entertained by members of the Jerilderie branch of the Counry Party at a social afternoon on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Election News Black-Out Explained SYDNEY
NEWSPAPERS during the pre-poll period of electoral silence could refer objectively to the holding of a State election, but there must be no comment or canvassing of the possibilities of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Fadden Warns That Coming Federal Elections Vital
"I cannot impress too strongly that the coming Federal election will be the most vital, the most momentous and the most unique since Federation. Upon its results will depend the general shape of Australian economic life for generations," said the Federal Country Party…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Die in Election Riots
CARTAGENA (Colombia), Tuesday: At least seven persons were killed and scores were injured in widespread rioting…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →New Election Bill Approved by Caucus
SIDNEY, Wed. ; State [?] today approved of the [?] [?] which proposes to increase the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farrer Liberals Prepare for Coming Elections
At the annual meeting of the Liberal Farrer Electorate Conference at Culcairn on Saturday afternoon, 29 delegates were present. Among them were: Messrs Alex…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Country Party Candidate Active in Riverina
"The lives of every man, woman and child in Riverina are being blighted by Socialism," said Mr. Hugh S. Roberton, the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Party Candidate Active in Riverina
“The lives of every mail, woman and child in Riverina are being blighted by Socialism,” said Mr Hugh S. Roberton the Australian Country Party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International Wheat Agreement Statement by Mr. Roberton, C.P. Candidate for Riverina
"The ratification of the International Wheat Agreement by the United States Senate is a generous gesture by the Govt. and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament Adopts Snowy Project Bill Passes All Stages
CANBERRA, Friday: Work on the Snowy: River hydro-electricity project had already begun, the Minister for Works and Housing, Mr. Lemmon, said in the House of representatives, last night. The Bill to sanction the work passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bill to Reduce Country Seats in State Parliament "Death Knell" of Government, Says Col. Bruxner
The Parliamentary Electorates and Elections (Amendment) Bill which is now going through the State Parliament was severely criticised by the Leader of the Country Party (Lt. Col. Bruxner). The Bill provides for an increase of four in the number of seats…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament to Rise Next Week
CANBERRA, Fri.: Federal Parliament is expected to adjourn next week, and not re-assemble until late in August or early in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reds Win A.r.u. Election
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Prominent Communist, Mr J. J. Brown, has been re-elected Victorian secretary of the Australian Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →“White Australia As Election Issue”
CANBERRA, Tues. : The Minister for Immigration (Mr Calwell) said today that he refused to make exceptions of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conference of Murray Valley Members of Parliament
Behind the various objectives of the MVDL stands the purpose of trebling the present population of the Murray valley thus bringing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →G.n. Candidate Goes Fast Over Six
MELBOURNE, Thursday: The Adelaide Grand National candidate. Shot By, performed more like a sprinter this morning when he ran 6 furlongs…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →T.b. Appeal— Country Candidate Leads Competition
Although retaining a comfortable lead, Miss P. Jarvis, Country Queen in the Albury Hospital’s T. B. Appeal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain May Have an Early Election London
LORD Woolton, chairman of the Conservative Party, said last night that Britain’s economic crisis might force an early election. He added : “I [?]elieve we may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →C.P. Candidate, Mr. John MacKay
John Harold Mackay was born in 1900, son of a wheat-farmer, and as a lad lived and worked on the farm, in the 1914-18 war four of his elder…
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