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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections
1,029 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 52
Police have frustrated an impudent attempt to obtain £5 each from applicants for positions in the Royal Australian Air Force by assuring them that they…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A short but keenly-fought State election campaign is reaching a climax. The consensus of opinion is that the voting on Saturday will be close, with the odds…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Federal genera] election will probably be held on December 1 1 this year instead of on December 18…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) has selected Saturday, December 11, as the tentative date for the next Federal elections…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →D.C. Williams and G. Seymour, photographed during training at Green Point track, South Africa. Both are wingers, and possibilities for the Springbok Rugby Union team to tour Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first result of the elections for the provincial Upper House comes from Bombay, which has 30 seats. Four members were nominated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Though state election results are not always a pointer to Federal diction possibilities, the swing to Labor in Tasmania is causing keen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Delhi correspondent of "The Times" says: "The final state of the parties in the United Provinces' Legislative Assembly is: Congress party 133,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A conference of the Waterside Workers and Seamen's Unions, and the Miners' Federation, will be held shortly to discuss plans for the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Attorney General (Sir Donald Somerville) is considering whether the findings in the Court of Inquiry into the Gresford colliery disaster afford grounds for prosecutions. THOUGH, the disaster, in which 265…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As a result of to-day's count for the Tasmanian House of Assembly elections, the position has undergone little change. Only 2407 votes were received for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The provincial elections have produced some remarkable and amusing results, and have shown the solidity of the Congress party, especially in the United Provinces…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →When Gold Rod was allotted 9.1, or 9lb above weight for age, in the Doncaster Handicap, it did not surprise to see him immediately withdrawn. Mr. Watt's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The first fight in the history of Parliament occurred to-day, when a Socialist and a Conservative member quarrelled over procedure during a session of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Although 3510 votes were added to the total of the five electoral divisions to-day the position of the doubtful candidates was not clarified to any great extent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The decision of the National Executive of the British Labour Party to go to the country at the next election with a short…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The triennial municipal elections in April promise to be keener, and more bitter the ever was originally anticipated. The party vote and especially…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Congress Party captured 27 of the 46 seats in the Upper House at Madras, ensuring a majority. It also has thus far won 32 seats in the Lower House,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Maryborough by-election yesterday was won by Ald. W. H. Demaine, Mayor of Maryborough, who celebrated his 78th birthday on Thursday. The polling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Polling in connection with the Oxford University by-election, caused by the resignation of Lord Hugh Cecil, on his appointment as Provost of Eton,…
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