Minister Will Bet on Election Win
SYDNEY: The Minister for Labor (Mr. Finnan) and his supporters are willing to bet £100, at even-money odds, that Mr. Finnan will win the Hawkesbury seat in the 1950 State elections…
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Politics & elections, 1949
337 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 17
Concord Election "Fair and Clean"
SYDNEY, Monday.—The three candidates for Concord by-election said to-day the contest had been fair and clean…
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The former Yorkshire and England cricketer, Mr. Herbert Sutcliffe, is considering overtures to stand as a Conservative candidate for the…
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SINGLETON, Wednesday.—The election issue the nation would be called upon to decide would be whether the traditional democratic…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. D. H. Drummond, Country Party member for Armidale in the Legislative Assembly, will contest New…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Central Council of the Australian Country Party to-day endorsed 16 candidates for nine seats at the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Elections Polling Slow
PARIS, March 27. A.A.P.— Polling started slowly throughout provincial France to-day in the second ballet for the county council…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A special gazette, issued to-day by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley), announced that Mr. E. Wetherell's…
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Miss Marie Howland would be the utility group of unions' May Queen candidate, the Secretary of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant…
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SYDNEY: There was an extraordinary development in the Legislative Council election at 2 p.m. today, when it was announced that alB votes would have to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. E. A. Willis, former President of Sydney University Labour Club, was to-night endorsed as Liberal candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Biggest Council Elections In U.K. "Herald" Service
LONDON, April 4.—To-day 20 million people in England and Wales are voting in the country's biggest-ever local government elections, thereby providing, observers believe, a preview of the next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Budget "May Cost Labour Next Election" "Herald" Service
LONDON, April 7.—Labour critics are saying that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps) is out of touch with the country, and that his austerity Budget may have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Stock Board Elections
Mr. J. H. Berry, of Allison, near Dungog, who had been a director of Maitland Pastures Protection Board for 18 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Liberal Candidate For Dalley
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. C. W. Shields, of Leichhardt, was selected by the Liberal Party to-night to contest Dalley at the Federal…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Although the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Holloway) predicted in Melbourne that the Federal elections would…
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SYDNEY.—The Commonwealth's free medicine and national health plans would be major Issues at the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For Women . . . Only Quest Candidate From Newcastle
Off to Sydney on Tuesday as Newcastle's only representative, blonde, 21-year-old secretary, Joy Lilley, of Merewether, will face the judges in the New South Wales Ex-Service Legion's Florence Nightingale Quest…
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SYDNEY, Friday. —The New South Wales Executive of the Labour Party to-night endorsed two candidates to contest seats at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Election Hardest Nut To Crack'—Quinlan
The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan)—endorsed last night as Liberal Party candidate for the Newcastle Federal seat-to-day described the coming election as "the hardest nut I have ever had to crack."…
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