C.P. and Liberal Candidates Hold Joint Meeting
On Friday week last, an important political event took place at Dubbo, when a joint meeting was addressed by the…
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Politics & elections, 1949
179 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 8 of 9
Four Candidates Nominate for New Lawson Electorate 39,000 Will Vote On December 10
Four candidates had nominated for the Lawson Electorate in the Federal Elections to be held on December 10, the Dubbo Returning Officer (Mr. H. A. Muller) announced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show Committee Election By Ballet
The new committee of the Peak Hill P.A. and H. Society is to be elected by ballot on December 17, This decision, reached at the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →C.p. Arrangements for Polling Day
At the weekly meeting of the Dubbo branch of the Country Party, arrangements were completed for the staffing of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labour Candidate For Lawson Endorses Socialisation Scathing Attack Against Private and Trading Banks. "Proud to Have Signed Pledge for Socialisation of Industry, Production, Distribution and Exchange."
A clear and definite endorsement of the Labor Government's Socialisation policy was given by Mr. Allan Manning, endorsed Labor candidate for the Lawson Federal electorate in his first public address at Wellington on Friday night. Unlike Mr. Chifley, who avoided the socialisation issue in his policy speech, Mr. Manning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shot Fired at Mumbil Election Rally
The liveliest meeting of the current election campaign in Lawson occurred at Mumbil on Friday night when a gun shot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Altered Castlereagh Boundary New Area Wants Say in Selecting Candidate
Over 12 months ago the Country Party candidate for the Castlereagh State Electorate was selected from 20…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labour Candidate's Policy Speech. Benefits to Be Gained From Socialisation
IN his lengthy address at a street meeting on Friday night last, Mr. Allan Manning, endorsed Labour Party candidate for the Lawson Federal electorate, outlined the benefits which would accrue to the the man on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Variety Concert Successful Effort in Aid of Town Queen Candidate
As briefly stated in our last issue the Variety Concert in aid of the Town Queen (Mrs. C. Brown) in the War…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Election of Mayor Next Month
Narromine's Mayor for the coming twelve months will be elected at the next ordinary meeting of the Municipal Council, which will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stormy Scenes in Q. Parliament Over Casket Brisbane
Further stormy scenes occurred in the Legislative Assembly today over the Golden Casket and an Opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol Shortage an Election Stunt—anthony
The shortage of petrol in Australia at the moment was engineered by the Labor Government as an electioneering stunt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHURCHILL (75) Cheered in Parliament London
Supporters and opponents in a crowded House of Commons yesterday cheered Mr. Winston Churchill in a tribute to him on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Elections Not Far Off Speakers Receive Little Attention Labor Favoured for Lawson with Over 2000 Majority on Past Returns
The apparent apathy shown by the electors of Gilgandra towards political addresses delivered during recent weeks tends to make the approaching elections one of the quietest on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.Z. Election Landslide Makes World Headlines "Labor Lost Because It Went Too Far" AUCKLAND
The surprise result of the New Zealand election, when Labor was swept out of office after 14 years administration, has made headline news in almost every country in the world…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ferguson, Independent Candidate, Lashes Out Against Regimentation
OBLIGED to forfeit his invalid pension, which he had been receiving for seven years, so that he could contest the Lawson Federal seat as an Independent candidate, Mr. W. Ferguson, of Dubbo, recently received a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Party Leader and Outstanding Candidate
MR. A. W. FADDEN MR. LAURIE FAILES…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fadden Tells Wellington Electors that Labour's Socialisation Pledge is the only Real Election Issue
OBVIOUSLY tired and with his voice failing badly on occasions, the Leader of the Country Party, Mr. A. Fadden, dearly showed the toll which his vigorous preelection campaign had taken of his strength when he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Zealand Elections. Labour Routed As People Reject Socialism. Sydney
In yesterday's general elections, the New Zealand Labour Government, which had held office since 1935, was routed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yeoval News Liberal Candidate Makes Stag Impression at Yeoval
BY his obvious sincerity, keenness and forceful personality, the Liberal candidate for the Lawson Federal electorate, Mr. Roy Croft, made a deep and lasting impression on the people of Yeoval in his address at a…
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