"No Meddling in Politics" Wallsend Diggers on Council Election
'"Meddling in political matters will bring about the disintegration of the league," said Mr. P. J. Omodei at a meeting of Wallsend sub-branch…
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Politics & elections, 1944
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Candidate for North Ward
Mr. F. J. Purdue, of Roe Street, Mayfield. has stated his intention of seeking election to the Greater Newcastle Council in December…
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Miss Molly Mills, daughter of Mrs. C. S. Mills, Brett-street. New Lambton Heights, has been nominated by Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Ballot papers used in the election for the Students' Representative Council at Sydney University have been stolen and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. Roosevelt On Election Issues
WASHINGTON, Tuesday. — The question of a fourth term for the President was not a major issue at the elections. Mrs. Roosevelt said…
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Delegates from the Kotara. New Lambton and Wallsend Progress Associations met last night to plan a campaign to assist the candidature…
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Newcastle Housewives' Association pledges its support to the Secretary (Mrs. M. Rayes), a candidate for Greater Newcastle Council…
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More than 30 delegates at Newcastle Federal A.L.P. Council endorsed a motion by Mr. S. C. Howell that the House of Representatives…
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SYDNEY.— A proposal to broadcast State Parliamentary debates is being investigated by the Speaker (Mr. Clyne)…
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A REFORM about which there is almost general unanimity, which presents a sound and urgent case, but which, in the face of recurrent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to Editor Parliament "On the Air"
Sir,—"Cassandra's" sentiments receive unqualified approval from the Australian Constitutional League. It is undoubtedly true that the…
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BRISBANE: Smashed hat pegs, one cut eye and a broken sand tray, comprise the damage done in the Parliament House brawl last night. The brawl is without precedent for vicious ness in the Parliamentary history of Queensland. The Transport Minister (Mr. Walsh)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Want Parliament to Fix Working Hours
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A demand for Parliament and not the Court to lay down a maximum working week is expected to be pressed when…
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There would be at least eight candidates for the Miss Newcastle contest is and of the proposed soldiers' memorial ward at Newcastle Hospital…
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Mr. W. H. Murdoch, North Ward candidate for Greater Newcastle Council to whom Waratah-Mayfield sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has pledged its support, told the sub-branch last night that he would "team" with two other candidates. Messrs…
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THIRTEEN of the 28 candidates in the Northern Stakes, to be run at Newcastle Jockey Club's Northern Cup meeting on November…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Stonewalling tactics by the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly upset the Government's plans to push through…
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The secretary of Carrington branch of the A.L.P. (Mr. H. N. Coe) said at a meeting last night that he was not in favor of the proposal, made…
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Mr. Ewart Lewis, patron of the Islington sub-branch of the Return-ed Soldiers' League, may become the second R.S.L. supported candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mid-west Candidates
Lambton Progress Association last night endorsed the candidature of Ald. Johnson and Armstrong, and Mr. F. J. Edwards, for the…
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