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Politics & elections, 1920

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The State Elections N.S.W. 1920. Advice to Electors

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 4

Consider the candidates carefully; choose your favorite with deliberation; then select your second choice, your third choice, and so on; do this…

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State Elections. Mr. Holman's Hostility. Delayed Wheat Inquiry

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 2

One of the most remarkable developments of the election campaign is the ferocity with which Mr. Holman and some of his colleagues have been…

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The Issues of the Election

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1920 · page 2

This is the first election in the history of the State in which the people as a whole have been given a clear and uncomplicated opportunity to render a…

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State Elections. Mr. Holman at Wagga. Stories Retold

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 March 1920 · page 2

Mr. W. A. Holman, Premier, addressed a meeting in the Oddfellows' Hall last night, Alderman E. E. Collins, president of the Wagga branch of…

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Items of News. Polling Day

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

The Elections Act sets out that Polling Day in the State shall be a public holiday from noon. Hotels may open in the morning and remain…

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State Elections Polling Day—Saturday, March 20, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Instructions How to Vote Number for Every Candidate

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 3

The Stale elections Will take place on Saturday, March 20, and the polling booths will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. A change has been made in the manner of…

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State Elections. Saturday Is Polling Day Vote Between 8 a.m and 7 p.m. Vote in Preference Order for the Whole of the Candidates

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

This paper's policy being National we ask electors to vote Holman 1, D'Arcy 2, Main 3, doing as you think best with the others, but…

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State Parliament. Progressive Candidates. Meeting at Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw, late member for the Lachlan, Mr. Cuthbert, and Mr. W. W. Killen, addressed a meeting in Leeton on Tuesday night. The…

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Federal Parliament. Increase in Sugar Prices. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

Mr. W. Foster (S.A.), speaking in the House of Representatives to-night, said that he objected to the sugar agreement being for three years…

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Election Circular. Candidate Gets Injunction Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

An ex parte application was made in the Supreme Court on behalf of Thomas Smith, M.L.A., for the King division, for on interim injunction to…

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Correspondence Parliament House, Sydney, 13th March, 1920 (To the Editor Hillston "Spectator.")

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 5

SIR,—Owing to the enlargement of the Murrumbidgee Electorate, and owing to the short time in which to travel all round it, I…

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Latest News. Sugar Prices Fixed for Three Years. Picture Shows Amalgamate British Parliament and Wealth [?] Taxation. American Commercial and Naval Activities. SYDNEY

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

Mr. Hughes announced in Parliament that he had reached an agreement that raw sugar would be £30 6s 3d per ton for throe years, between…

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The State Elections To the Electors of the Murrumbidgee

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 1

Ladies and Gentlemen: Owing to the change in the [?]toral [?]stem, which [?] for Pro[?]…

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The Elections. How to Vote

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

One grows very weary and sickened listening to the various aspi[?]s for political houors. and the scandal and slanders that are being so freely used…

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State Elections. Murray Electorate Labor Campaign. Mr Claude Thompson at Adelong

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 4

Last Saturday night week, Messrs C Thompson and E Clear, the selected labor candidates for the Murray, addressed the electors of Adelong from the verandah of…

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Election of Mayor

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 5

The Aldermen of the Hillston Municipal Council met on Wednesday evening last for the purpose of electing the Mayor for the ensuing year…

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State Elections

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 3

Mr J. G. Carroll, ex-M.L.A., addressed the electors in the Royal Mail Hall on Monday evening last on behalf of Mr A. Grimm. Assistant…

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State Election. Labor and Wheat Growing. Years When Agriculture Flourished. Mr. McGIRR'S FIGURES

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

Mr Gregory McGirr, one of the Labor Candidates for the Cootamundra seat addressed a large and attentive audience in the Royal Hall Grenfell…

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The Murrumbidgee Election. (To the Editor.)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 2

Sir,—As I learn that a rumor is going the rounds of the electorate to the crect that I have signed an undertaking to support the Roman…

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State Election. To the Electors of Murrumbidgee. W. W. Killen's Candidature. Ladies and Gentlemen.—

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 March 1920 · page 3

Owing to the change in the electoral system, which provides for Proportional Representation, and throws the three old electorates of…

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