Polling Booth Site Changed
For the referendum on Saturday the polling booth previously at Warner's Bay School has been changed to Lowndes' Storeroom,…
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Politics & elections, 1951
187 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 10
Attlee Announces General Elections On Oct. 25
LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): A general election will be held in Britain on Oct. 25, the Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) announced in a B.B.C. broadcast last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Y.W.C.A. Queen Candidates
Two candidates selected this week to contest the Y.W.C.A. "Miss Newcastle" Memorial Hostel Appeal are, Margaret Hopkins (left), and Joan Walmsley. Both girls are machinists at Hayman's clothing factory and will have a preliminary contest for the title "Miss…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P. and O.S.R.): Labor Party leaders last night declared a truce with the party's rebellious left-wing for the period of the general election campaign…
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LONDON, Sept. 26. A.A.P.—Dozens of punters all over Britain have snapped up odds of £1 to a trouser button that the…
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Two candidates in the Y.M.C.A. Memorial Hostel Appeal's "Miss Newcastle" competition are (above), Miss Noeleen Standen…
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LONDON, Thurs.: A month from now Britain will know whether it is to get a new government or is to have the old government, perhaps a little revivified by the sound and fury of battle. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Frolic For Y.W.C.A. Quest Candidate
A frolic was held in the Y.W.C.A. rooms, King-street, Newcastle, on Saturday, in aid of Miss Shirley McKinnorn, C grade basketball…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parliament Sits All Night Queensland to Take Butter
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A bill was introduced into Queensland State Parliament to-day to compel marketing boards to acquire compulsorily produce whenever there is a stoppage of supplies…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday—The Liberal Country, Party Opposition made a State election almost inevitable to-day when it threw the…
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LONDON, Oct. 4, A.A.P.—The Lord Chancellor (Lord Jowett) to-day read the King's speech proroquing Parliament. In conformity with custom the…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): The coming British election was vital for the whole world as well as for Britain, the Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) said last night…
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MELBOURNE.—Labor may withdraw its support from Victoria's Country Party Government and force an election…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trevor Smiths London Round-up Britain Faces Elections In Anxious Mood How goes the political Battle of Britain?
This Parliament has held its last sitting. With characteristic dignity there was not so much as a single murmur of political…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Neckties Adopted By U.K. Election Parties
LONDON, Thurs. — With Parliament prorogued and dissolved and with a firm of Birmingham mercers churning out officially approved election ties for the Labor and Conservative parties — (at 7/6 a…
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SYDNEY. Thursday.—Mr. C. W. Anderson. State Organising Secretary of the A.L.P., to-night was elected a member of the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Churchill's View Of Election Date
LONDON, Sat. (A.A.P.): Winston Churchill, speaking last night to his constituents at Woodford (Essex) said the time chosen for an election had not been lucky for the Government…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) will make a statement in the House of…
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As befitted the importance and delicacy of the subject, Mr. Menzies' statement in Parliament last night on Australia's attitude…
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Mrs. Jones will represent Stockton branch of the Old Age and invalid Pensioners' Association, which with hold its first function on…
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