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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections
739 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 37
"Knave though I may be, I have not yet been accused of being a fooll" In these words, Sir William Jowitt, K.C., opened the by-election campaign at Preston…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →E. A. Connolly is the first of the Victorians to arrive in sydney with candidates for the spring campaign, He brought over Dark Moon and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The opening of the now South African Parliament occupied a quarter of an hour. The Governor-General's Speech sympathetically referred to the King's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Another general election in the autumn of 1930 is possible;" says the noted publicist, Mr. J. L. Garvin, writing in the "Sunday Observer." The Premier, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, and Mr. J. H…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As the first business of the day in Parliament, the Premier moved appropriating private members days and suspending the 11 o'clock adjournment, General Smuts…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. H. Scullin Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party, replying to-day to statements made last night at St. Kilda by the Prime Minister (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Because he advocates inter-Empire free trade, Conservative headquarters decline to invite members of the House of Commons to speak in support of Sir John…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A serious situation has arisen in political circles over the nation of the Premier (Sir William McPherson) at the present time, when unemployment is rife, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nominations closed today for the Balaclava meat in the House of Representatives, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. W. A. Watt. There were only…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Beyond remarking that for five years while a private member, he did not touch his salary, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) declined to comment to-night on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. O. Gavey, Town Clerk and Returning Officer of Waratah Council, has received six nominations for the vacancy in the council, following the retirement of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The British general election of 1929, like every election in history, will produce its crop of witty stories and happy retorts. The humour comes during the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The official declaration was made at noon to-day by the town clerk (Mr. Gavey) in connection with the six nominations received to all the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a small attendance of ratepayers at the Waratah Town Hall yesterday, when Mr. C. Gavey, Returning Officer, declared the nominations for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Scanning the English papers one comes across the usual crop of witty stories and happy retorts that are produced at a general election, particularly a British…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Information available in Brisbane seems to confirm the news from the south that anything may happen in Canberra when the Federal Parliament meets next…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →That in spite of the industrial depression the institution had maintained its ground, and generally experienced a very satisfactory year, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The campaign committee of the Waratah Municipal A.L.P. Assembly has arranged a programme for this week's meetings in support of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The date for the election of an alderman to fill the vacancy created by the death of Alderman Light will be fixed by the Newcastle Council at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Bert Light, Managing Director of Messrs. M. Light and Son, Ltd., the well known house-furnishers of Newcastle and Cessnock has been requested by a large…
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