Ex-Police Chief For Parliament
SYDNEY: A former Deputy Police Commissioner. Superintendent Walter Lawrence, is seeking…
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Politics & elections, 1954
225 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 12
Queen Opens Parliament With Pomp And Pageantry
SMOKE OH.—Shades of Grandma's day is shown here by pretty 19-year-old Tan Mitchell. Tan has the latest in women's pipes—a dainty Meerschaum studded with diamente…
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The peculiar role of the Country Party in Australian politics, Federal and State, is being exemplified again…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Elections On Coalfields
Cessnock Council will elect its mayor and committees for next year at a special meeting on…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Labour Selects Candidate
SYDNEY, Friday. — The Hartley preselection ballot for an A.L.P. candidate for the 1956 State elections was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDITORIAL State Parliament In A Hurry Again
AS SO OFTEN has happened in the past, Parliament is about to telescope a good deal of business of first-rate importance into the last throes of a dying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Indonesia Moves On Elections
NEW YORK, Dec. 5. A.A.P.—Although there was widespread doubt that polling would ever take place as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.K. Election Warning
LONDON, Dec. 5. A.A.P. —Britain's Liberal Party has been warned to be on the alert for a general election "from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lord Mayoral Election Tonight: Purdue To Stand Again
Tonight's election of Newcastle's Lord Mayor for 1955 will be the culmination of one of the quietest, yet most intense, campaigns for many years…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Club Fights In Berlin Election
BERLIN, Mon. (A.A.P.): Communists from East Berlin yesterday attacked with clubs Socialist workers putting up posters for the city elections…
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Aid Purdue is to be congratulated on his re-election as Lord Mayor of Newcastle for his third successive term…
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Fourteen pupils from Young Wallsend School and 27 from West Wallsend were the last…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Happiness Club Election Of Officers
Mrs. D. C. Thompson was re-elected president of Newcastle Combined Happiness Club for the eighth…
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The Queen, magnificent in diamond tiara, ermine wrap and jewelled white gown, shown in the Irish State coach on her way to open the new session of British Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament House Site Not To Change
SYDNEY, Thursday. —Parliament House would not be moved its site in Macquarie-street when a new…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Waratah-Mayfield R.S.L. Elections
At a special meeting held last night. Mr. H. H. Page was elected President of Waratah-Mayfield R.S.L…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Christmas Cup Candidate
MASTER PROVEN, a fancied candidate for the Rosehill Christmas Cup…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cardiff Election Deferred
Cardiff Urban Area Committee decided last night to defer till January 7 the election of its Chairman and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Liberal Executive Rejects Plan For Election Pact
SYDNEY, Monday. — The N.S.W. Liberal Party Executive to-day rejected by a two to one majority a proposed pact with the Country Party not to contest four country seats. After the meeting, the retiring President of the Liberal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Army Officer Candidates
CANBERRA, Sunday.âThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis) announced to-day the names of 32 men selected to…
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