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Southern Highlands · Politics & elections

Politics & elections, 1936

20 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Dairy Produce Board Election of Farmers' Representative

The Southern Mail · Friday 13 March 1936 · page 2

Regulations governing the election of members of the Australian Dairy Produce Board have been gazetted. The States of New South…

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Australian Dairy Produce Board Election of Producers' Representatives

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 2

The Dairy Produce Export Control Act was recently amended by the Commonwealth Parliament to provide for the alteration of the title of the…

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Bowral Jubilee. the First Municipal Election

The Southern Mail · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 2

The first election of Aldermen to form Bowral Municipal Council was held on 12th April, 1886. In those days the electors had more control…

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Government from Outside Parliament

The Southern Mail · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 1

SENATOR LECKIE has registered a dignified protest against the interference of the British Government in matters…

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Pitt's Dying Speech in Parliament

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 May 1936 · page 4

On Tuesday, April 7. 1778, Charles Lennox, the third duke of Richmond, a distinguished member of various ministries, moved an address to…

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Primary Producers' Union Notes (Issued by authority of the Central Executive Council). Sydney, 11th May, 1936. Dairy Board Elections

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 4

In all the States entitled to elect producer representatives to the new Australian Dairy-Produce Board with the exception of N.S. Wales there…

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Local Government Elections To the Editor

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 May 1936 · page 3

Sir,—The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Spooner, is reported as stating at the Shires Conference that the Government proposed to apply…

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A Fateful Election

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 1

IF some of the Die-Hards who still profess to believe that Parliament was as pure as driven snow before payment of…

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Robertson Show Society. Annual Meeting and Election of Committee. Some Good Workers Defeated—four New Members Elected

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 2 June 1936 · page 2

There was a large attendance at the annual meeting of Robertson Show Society in the School of Arts on Thursday night. Although the…

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Local Government Elections. The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 9 June 1936 · page 2

Sir,—The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Spooner, is reported aa stating at the Shires Conference that the Government proposed to apply…

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[?] Dying Speech in Parliament

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 June 1936 · page 4

On Tuesday, April 7, 1778, Charles the third duke of Richmond a distinguished member of various ministries, moved an address to…

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Election of Officers

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 July 1936 · page 2

The following office-hearers were elected for the ensuing year:— Patron: Mr. E. Benardos Captain: T. Taylor…

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The Four Mails Turf Budget the Stewards' Right to Change a Jockey on a Fancied Race Candidate. Gave Rider His Apprentice Permit for Races and Then Denied Him First Mount. Talking, the Freak, Gold Rod, and Osculum in Their Great Warwick Farm Form

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 September 1936 · page 4

Dick Wooton regards The Freak as an Epsom proposition, and a few weeks ago he tried to engage Billy Cook for the horse in the big mile…

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Pitt's Dying Speech in Parliament

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 December 1936 · page 4

On Tuesday, April 7,1778, Charles Lennox, the third duke of Richmond a distinguished member of various ministries moved an address to…

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Brief Mention. Election of Mayor

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 8 December 1936 · page 2

We are informed by the Acting, Mayor of Bowral (Ald. W. Briggs) that a call meeting of the Council will be held on Wednesday night at…

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Direct Election

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 December 1936 · page 1

RECENT deplorable occurrences in Bowral revive the matter of the direct election of the Mayor by the people. That…

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Werriwa Electorate. Selection of U.A.P. CANDIDATE

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 22 December 1936 · page 2

On Wednesday night last, the first of a series of branch meetings to be addressed by Mr. R. F. Dowries and Mr. H. H. Storey, United Australia…

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Bowral Council. Extraordinary Election

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 22 December 1936 · page 2

Bowral Council not now being able to function, the Municipality has been declared ? defaulting area under the Local Government Act, and…

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Bowral Council Cannot Function No Quorum.—New Election Ordered

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 December 1936 · page 4

A proclamation was published in the lost Government Gazette declaring the Bowral Municipality a defaulting area…

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The Municipal Election The Editor, The Mail

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 29 December 1936 · page 2

Sir,—Those who believe in reasonable sporting facilities in Bowral will need to get busy if what I hear of the movements of the spoil-sports is true. I am told they are working quietly to return a full ticket of killjoys to take the place of the aldermen who resigned. They are…

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