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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1947

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Want A.L.P. Election Candidates Named In Order of Esteem

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1947 · page 4

A motion recommending that the practice of placing Labour Party candidates for municipal elections in their alphabetical order of preference on…

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5 Soviet Republics Hold Elections

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 3

MOSCOW, Dec. 21. A.A.P.—Five U.S.S.R. Republics held local government elections to-day. They are the Russian Republic. Ukraine, Armenia,…

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Labor Wins Seat In Hartley By-Election

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY.—The Labor candidate (Mr. J. Chalmers) has won the Hartley by-election with an absolute majority of 822 votes over his two…

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Civic Reform Party Wins By-Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Civic Reform Party candidate (Ald. J. P. Tate) to-day won the City Council by election for Gipps Ward. He secured…

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The R.s.s. & A.i.l.a. Hamilton Sub-branch Annual Election of Officers, 1948

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 December 1947 · page 7

Nominations for the following positions—President, Vice-presidents (3), Treasurer-Assistant Secretary, Social Secretary and Committeemen—will be received up till 12 noon, December 31. Proposers and seconders must be financial members of the Sub-branch…

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