MR. W. M. HUGHES Sole U.A.P. Candidate For North Sydney SYDNEY
The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. W. M. Hughes) has been unanimously endorsed by the North Sydney Divisional Conference as the United…
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Politics & elections, 1940
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N. Z. Parliament A Secret Sitting SYDNEY
A secret sitting of the New Zealand Parliament opened yesterday afternoon. All doors were locked and guarded. There remained in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Candidate's Committee Meeting
The committee of the Country Candidate in the Popular Man competition will meet in the Memorial Hall on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Armidale City Council Triennial Elections Postponement Favoured By City Council Use of Water Through Hoses Prohibited
A motion favouring postponement of the Local Government triennial elections, due in December, was carried at the Armidale City Council meeting on Monday night. Several aldermen were inclined to oppose the proposal at the…
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The Government announced yesterday that the local government elections would be postponed for the duration of the war and 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOCAL & GENERAL Council Elections Postponed
Local Government elections are to be postponed until 12 months after the end of the war. The manor was considered at a meeting of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Municipal Elections Third of Councils in State Favour Postponement Suggestion That Money Saved Be Given to Federal Government SYDNEY
Of the 300 councils in New South Wales circularised by the Local Government Association, 100 favour postponement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Municipal Elections Postponement Opposed Discussion by Local Aldermen
At last night's meeting of the Municipal Council. aldermen strongly opposed the proposal to defer Local Government elections…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baa. Black Sheep Nursery Rhyme in Parliament
Not every sovereign has been careful for dignity when delivering the speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Does the U.S.A. Presidential Election Interest Us?
The question is being asked—"What interest has the United States presidential election for Australia—and the the Empire?" In reply it may be said at once that there probably was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Municipal Elections Postponement Opposed Discussion by Inverell Aldermen
At last meeting of the Inverell Municipal Council, aldermen strongly opposed the proposal to defer Local Government elections…
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A number of country sub-branches of the War Functions Association have signified their intention to support the candidature…
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A meeting of the committee working in the interests of the Town Candidate (Mr. H. E. Manning) was held in the Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →City Council Vacancy By-Election Will Not Be Held
The Town Clerks (Mr. F. W. Milner) stated to-day that the Department of Local Government would not insist upon a by-election to fill the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mexico Election Forty Dead in Riots Mexico City
Forty are known to be dead as a result of rioting throughout the country during the presidential election The independent candidate. General…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Postponing L.G. Elections
At the monthly meeting of the Tenterfield Chamber of Commerce of number of resolutions were submitted for inclusion on the agenda for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Election May Be Impossible To Hold, Says Mr. Hughes SYDNEY
The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) declared that the Federal Government, as a Government, had not given any consideration to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rioting in Mexico 40 Persons Killed During Presidential Election Mexico City
Forty are known to be dead as the result of rioting throughout the country during the Presidential election. The Independent candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yallaroi Shire Election
The result of the poll on Saturday to fill the vacancy on the Yallaroi Shire Council caused by the death of Mr. C. C. Bayly, resulted as follows…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Postponing Elections Sir Joseph Cook's Query SYDNEY
Sir Joseph Cook has commented on a statement by Attorney-General Hughes that "during the last war proposals were made for the…
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