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Politics & elections, 1921

2,035 stories in Sydney's papers · page 84 of 102

Candidates. Parramatta Seat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1921 · page 8

Senator Pratten, who is deputy president of the National Association of New South Wales, was elected to the Senate at the last Federal elections. He was Mayor of Ashfield…

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City Elections. Why Labour Won. Lesson From 1918

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1921 · page 8

An analysis of the votes recorded at the City elections in 1918 shows that the percentage of owner and leaseholder voters who recorded their votes was…

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City Council Elections Macquarie Ward

The Sun · Monday 21 November 1921 · page 9

Only two candidates have, so far, nominated for Macquarie Ward in the City Council elections. They are Alderman Richard Charles Hagon and…

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Parramatta Election Rolls

The Sun · Monday 21 November 1921 · page 9

The new rolls for the Parramatta electorate, now in course of printing, contain 63,176 names. These are distributed amongst the subdivisions as…

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Parramatta Election the Soil Manufacturers Pleased Selling the Fruit. Co-operative Action Griffith Organisation

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 November 1921 · page 5

The members of the Chamber of Manufactures are pleased that Senator H. E. Pratten bas been unanimously selected as tho National candidate for the Paramatta by-election. He An important step has been taken by the co-operative enterprise at Griffith. The Griffith Producers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., has been formally registered, with an authorised…

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No Election Mr. Dooley Loth to Fight. Good for 18Months Yet Government's Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 November 1921 · page 6

KATOOMBA, Sunday.--Speaking at a dinner tendered to him by the Katoomba Progress Association last evening, the Premier made reference to the agitation in certain A.L.P…

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State Parliament Endowment and Land Bill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 4

The State Parliament meets this afternoon at 2.30, when in all probability the third reading of the Motherhood Endowment Bill will be carried, and the measure forwarded to the…

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Pandemonium Prussia's Parliament Berlin, November 20

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 5

The Communist deputies in the Prussian Parliament asked the President for a report of the hunger strike among political prisoners. One speaker, who failed to secure a hearing,…

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Parramatta Election

Evening News · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 5

MR. B. ADDISON Country Party's candidate MR. W. H. HUTGHISON the Laber candidate…

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Legislative Council Talk of More Stuffing. Rumors of an Election

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 10

One Minister talks of putting some more new members in the Legislative Council so as to bludgeon through any wild-cat scheme that the Government…

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City Elections. Appeal to Voters. Ward Boundaries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 10

The Citizens' Reform Association are appealing to property-owners and leaseholders in Sydney who reside outside the city to make arrangements to be in Sydney on December 1…

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State Politics. No Early Election Mr. Loughlin's Land Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 9

The Premier (Mr. Dooley) yesterday expressed the opinion that there would be no general elections in New South Wales for the next 18 months. He said he could not see any…

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Senate Vacancy Nationalist Candidates Lady Aspirant

The Sun · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 8

A meeting of the Council of the National Association of New South Wales is to take place to-night to consider the nomination of a candidate in the…

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City Council Elections Phillip Ward

The Sun · Tuesday 22 November 1921 · page 9

Alderman John W. Doyle and Mr. Vincent McCauley are the endorsed Labor candidates for Phillip Ward in the City Council elections. Their…

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State Parliament. North Shore Bridge. Anzac Memorial Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 November 1921 · page 14

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the motion which was carried last week to devote the whole of Tuesday to Government business came into effect. Mr. John Arthur Perkins,…

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Work for Soldiers Preference Act Threatened Motion in Parliament

The Sun · Wednesday 23 November 1921 · page 7

The Minister for Mines and Local Government (Mr. Cann) moved in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon for consideration in committee of the…

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In Parliament Do Engines Pull Trains? [?] Complaint—A Poor Advertiser—A New Member—An [?] Argument—The [?] Feet of Clay.—The [?]

Evening News · Wednesday 23 November 1921 · page 6

An American writer recently confessed to a good deal of uneasiness regarding Russian Socialists and Mexican parrots. The question of national pride did not…

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The Federal By-Election Opening the Campaign

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1921 · page 1

The high-ways and the by-ways were beseiged on Friday night by the aspiring and perspiring candidates anxious to serve the country and incidentally to…

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Independent Candidate Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C.

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 November 1921 · page 1

Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., who is the Independent candidate for the Parramatta seat, was born at Bathurst, and is a son of the late Archdeacon Piddington, of…

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City Elections. Warning Note. Council's Electricity Department

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 November 1921 · page 14

The manifesto issued by the A.L.P. in support of the Labour candidates at the coming city elections states that "Labour completely reorganised the electric light department,…

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