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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1906

205 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 10 of 11

Shire Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1906 · page 2

We regret, in the interests of our readers, that we are unable to supply them with the full details of the Shire election on Saturday last. When our…

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Castlereagh By-election

The Age · Tuesday 27 November 1906 · page 3

The polling for the election of a member of the Legislative Assembly to sit in the place of the late Mr. Hugh Macdonald, who belonged to the…

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Queanbeyan Age, with Which Are Incorporated, Queanbeyan Times, Bungendore Mirror and Captain's Flat Miner Tuesday, November 27, 1906. the Shire Elections

The Age · Tuesday 27 November 1906 · page 2

SATURDAY last marked another epoch in our history, when the first election under the New Municipalities Act was held. The proceedings were marked…

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The Shire Elections

The Age · Tuesday 27 November 1906 · page 2

SATURDAY last was polling day for the election of councillors for the Shire Councils throughout the State and, contrary to general expectation, the…

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The Shire Elections

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 November 1906 · page 2

The polling for the three Ridings of Tallaganda Shire took place on Saturday list. It is gratifying to note that a great deal of interest was taken by the taxpayers right throughout the Shire in the…

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Passing Notes. the Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 30 November 1906 · page 2

Labour sympathisers are elated at the success of Mr. Trefle, a caucus candidate, in the by-election at the Castlereagh. On the. other hand the appalling…

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Federal Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 30 November 1906 · page 2

Mr. John Longmuir, the anti-socialist: candidate for Eden Monaro, addressed one of the largest afternoon meetings ever held at Major’s Greek on Monday…

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The State Parliament

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 2

On Tuesday the members of the Legislative Council resumed the consideration of the Local Government Extension Rill in committee. In clause 50, which provides that nearly the whole of…

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The Eden-monaro Election. Mr. Longmuir at Braidwood

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 December 1906 · page 2

Mr. J. Longmuir, the Anti-Socialist candidate for this seat, addressed meetings this week at Major's Creek, Araluen, and Mongarlowe, at all of which places he was met by good audiences. On…

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Federal Elections. Mr. Longmuir at Queanreyan

The Queanbeyan Leader · Tuesday 4 December 1906 · page 2

Last Thursday night Mr. John Longmuir addressed a well-attended meeting in the Protestant Hall. The chair was occupied by Mr…

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Passing Notes. the City Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 2

The municipal elections have given little clue to the trend of political feeling, Nearly all the old aldermen were returned. Mr. O’SuIlivan, who by reason…

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Senate Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 2

The Australian Democratic Union announce the names of the selected antisocialist candidates in our present issue and invited all opponents of Socialism to…

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Federal Elections

The Age · Friday 7 December 1906 · page 6

EVERY elector whose name is on the rolls may vote, no matter where he he may happen to be on polling day. If electors cannot vote personally at the…

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The Federal Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 2

Although a large amount of intelligent interest is being taken in the Federal elections which are to be held to-morrow, there Is a large amount of apathy…

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The Federal Election

The Age · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 2

TO-MORROW will be polling day for the Federal elections. The poll for this portion of the Eden-Monaro electorate will be taken at the Court House,…

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The Heckled Candidate. He Was a Methodist

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 December 1906 · page 3

The "Daily News" relates the following story:-A Parliamentary candidate was being heckled. One of the questions had reference to the…

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The Federal Elections. Polling Day

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 2

Judging, from the surrounding circumstances very little interest was created in connection with electioneering, matters on Wednesday. Indeed a…

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Passing Notes. the Elections

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 2

The Australian elector, male and female, will have, decided the political issue before this epistle appears in print. Indeed, except as to the vital point…

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Federal Elections

The Age · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 2

WEDNESDAY was polling day in Queanbeyan for the Senate and House of Representatives in the Federal Parliament and, without there being any…

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Federal Elections. Results of the Polling

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 2

Wednesday, the Polling Day for the Federal Election, was observed very quietly in Braidwood, very little difference being observable in the appearance of the streets from ordinary occasion…

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