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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1941

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Greater Newcastle Elections Many Applications for Postal Votes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 2

Many applications for postal votes have already been received by the Returning Officer (Mr. G. Walls) for the Greater Newcastle Council election…

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Council Elections Ald. Jenner Replies to Mr. B. A. Helmore

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 2

Aid. Jenner to-day replied to the statement made by Mr. B. A. Helmore that "Alderman Jenner's allegations that the Citizens" Committee is U.A.P…

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Businessmen's Club and Candidates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 November 1941 · page 2

At the weekly luncheon of the Newcastle Businessmen's Club to-day, the President (Mr. B. A. Helmore) referred to the fact that some members of the…

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21 in Field for Lake Shire Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 2

Tee Returning Officer for Lake Macquarie Shire election (Mr. T. H. Halton) said yesterday that there would be 47 polling places throughout the shire on…

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Council Election

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 November 1941 · page 18

Merewether Progress Association last night made arrangements for its campaign to assist its South Ward candidates at the municipal elections…

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Council Candidates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 12

Below is the second of a series of biographical sketches of candidates for the Greater Newcastle election. The election will…

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Politics in City Elections Mr. Helmore Denies Introduction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 2

"Whatever Ald. Jenner may say, the Citizens' Committee is definitely non-political. I would not be a party to introducing politics into local…

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Council Election Have You a Vote—or Haven't You?

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 November 1941 · page 3

Questions which have been worrying some prospective voters at the Greater Newcastle elections on December 6 were…

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Council Candidates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1941 · page 6

MR. GRAHAME BLAND (Independent, City), an advocate of social credit, unsuccessfully contested the Burwood…

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W.E.A. Non-partisan in Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1941 · page 6

The Workers' Educational Association Council refused a request from the Housewives' Association to support its candidates in the elections on the ground that the…

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Women Candidates' Campaign Funds

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 November 1941 · page 2

Members of the Newcastle Housewives' Association have no fear that campaign funds to support the candature of their nominees for the…

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Council Election Applications for Postal Votes Close on

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 November 1941 · page 2

The "deadline" for applications for postal votes for the Greater Newcastle election on December 6 is 6 p.m. next Monday. The Act has no other…

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Diggers' President Will Not Seek Re-election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 December 1941 · page 5

The President of the District Council of Sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. J. L. Lewis) informed Wickham-Carrington sub-branch last night that…

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Election Campaign is Battle of Pamphlets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 2

Now in its last week, Greater Newcastle Council election campaign, which has awakened extraordinary local interest, in an…

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City Council Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 2

The voter who trusts his judgment will not allow it to be influenced by the grouping of candidates on the ballot papers for the Greater…

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Women Candidates Told Their Place Is in the Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 4

CANDIDATES of the Housewives' Association, canvassing support for the Greater Newcastle Council election, have been frequently told by women that their…

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Last Four Days to Council Elections: Big Changes Forecast

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 December 1941 · page 3

Only four days remain before the City Council election. On Saturday, 59 candidates from four "parties"—the Citizens' Committee, Progress Associations, A.L.P. and Housewives' Association, including a number of Independents, will face the electors of the…

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City Council Elections Rumors of Disruption Among Citizen Committee Candidates Are Denied

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 December 1941 · page 6

Suggestions current in some quarters that a "split", had occurred among Citizen Committee candidates contesting Saturday's municipal election in the City Ward were denied to-day by Mr. B. A. Helmore, a convener of the Citizens' Committee…

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Port Stephens Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1941 · page 4

For C Riding in Port Stephens Shire there will be no election for the second time in succession. Crs. S. I. Parish and G. Tranter have been declared elected. For the other…

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West Ward Candidates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 December 1941 · page 6

At a public mooting at Wallsend last night, the Independent candidate for West Word (Mr. R. Whalan) said that one of the first developmental jobs…

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