At Opening Of State Parliament
The Governor, Lord Wakehurst, leaving Parliament House yesterday with the Deputy-President of the Council, Mr. E. Farrer, after the opening ceremony…
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Politics & elections, 1941
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Control Indignation, Let Parliament Act Dr. Evatt Asks Unions and Public
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An appeal to "trade-unions and the great mass of the people to control their feelings of indignation and allow Parliament to take appropriate action" was made to-night by Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legislative Council Election
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The election of a member of the Legislative Council to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Frank Wall will take place on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook Show Election
MUBWELLBROOK, Thursday.—Thirty-eight nominations have been received for the 30 committeemen to be appointed at the annual election of Muswellbrook Pastoral and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Compulsory Voting for Council Elections
The Secretary (Mr. S. C. Williams) told Newcastle District Assembly of the Official Labour Party yesterday that he had been informed by the leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ready for Election in Queensland
ERIBANE, Sunday.—All three political parties in Queensland. Will be ready if there is an emergency Federal election. Sir Fergus McMaster, President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aldermen Differ on Compulsory Voting at Elections
Greater Newcastle aldermen are divided on the question of compulsory voting at municipal elections…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways Queen Candidate
Street days in support of Miss Jean Mangold. Newcastle district candidate in the Railways War Fund queen competition, will be held on August 8 and 15. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Municipal Elections
Because it considers that the time before the next meeting of the Municipal Assembly of the Official A.L.P. is insufficient for branches to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament Must Meet
THE black shadow of war creeps closer to Australian shores. In the North—the very near North—events are moving rapidly to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Pension Bill Soon for Parliament
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Miners' Pension Bill and a measure dealing with mechanisation in pillars in Coal mines will be among…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labour Opposes Election
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An early election is not favoured by the Leader of the Federal Labour Party (Mr. Curtin). The Deputy Leader…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City Election Candidate
Mr. J. Whalan was nominated by Kotara Progress Association last night as a candidate at the Greater Newcastle Council elections in December…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. James Expects Election Soon
Speaking at the formation of a branch of the A.L.P. at Bellbird, Mr. R. James, M.H.R., expressed the opinion that there would be a Federal election in the very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smart Trials by Candidates for Gosford
(By "Valais").—Gosford candidates provided some smart time-making trials in their final gallops at Broadmeadow this morning. The No.2…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Election of Hospital Board Members
"Subscribers have not been given a great deal of time in which to nominate candidates," said Ald. McLagan at Newcastle Hospital Board meeting last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Cup Candidates in Training
Ston Boy and Jacaranda, candidates for the Newcastle Cup meeting, registered 51½ for four furlongs at Broadmeadow this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Council Election More Than 77,000 on New Rolls
Voting strengths of the various wards in Greater Newcastle, compiled from the recent roll collections for the Local Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Votes at Triennial Elections Nine Months' Residence
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Persons with nine months' residential qualification will be entitled to vote at the triennial local government elections in December, 1941…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →12 Candidates for Hospital Board Election
A ballot will be taken to fill the vacancies which will be caused at the end of this month hy the retirement of seven members of Newcastle Hospital Board who are…
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