Water Board. Election to Be Held
Mr. Ball (Minister for Public Works) said last night that he had that day approved of an election being held to fill the vacancy on the Water and Sewerage Board caused by the…
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Tennis Control Election to Council Drastic Propositions
Mailers of great importance to tennis were discussed last night at Rushcutters Bay. The council first of all conferred with club…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Irish Elections Pleasantries of the Day Shooting and Picnics LONDON, August 27
There was a sharp fusillade in the early morn of election day in Dublin, owing to an attack having been made upon Free State troops. Hand-to-hand…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Latest Cables Irish Elections Mr. Cosgrave's Return Assured London, August. 28
It is estimated that between sixty and seventy per cent, of the Irish electors voted. Mr. Cosgrave's return is assured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Free State Polling. in Ireland Early Returns "Government Victory'' DUBLIN, August 29
Early returns regarding polling at the Free State general elections, suggest a sweeping victory for the Cosgrave, Government…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Parliament All Over the Crisis Government Recedes Ingenious Solution
And the moral of it all is: Don't poke on empty [?] at a man [?] has a full one or a royal routine [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Censure Motion. State Parliament. Expected to Fail. Division To-night
The debate on the censure motion in the State Parliament is drawing to a close. A division will be taken to-night. Though many members have expressed a desire to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SMILES In Early Morn Parliament Sits Late £1,000,000 FARM
The legislative Assembly sat past midnight. Members knew that the debate was to end to-night and for this reason an effort to [?] the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Potted Parliament Into the Small Hours the Three B.'s Censure Motion Punctured
Nothing happened. Not even the Three B's -- Messrs. Buttenshaw, Bavin, and Baddeley -- could enliven the jaded…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →News in Picture Historic Ceremony of Turning the First Sod of Provisional Parliament House at Canberra
The Canberra Advisory. Committee (left to right): Mr. H. E. Ross (architect), Mr. C. G. Daley (secretary), Mr. J. T. H. Goodwin (Commonwealth Surveyor-General), Colonel Owen (Director-General), Mr., E. M. de Burgh (chief engineer, Water and Sewerage, N.S.W.). Inset: Mr. John Sulman (chairman of the Canberra Advisory Committee)…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hansard Man Killed On Way Home From Parliament Four Others Injured Car Collides With Lorry in Early Morning
At 4 o'clock this morning a motor car and a milk lorry crashed into each other at the corner of Haig-avenue and Boomerang-street. One man was killed and four persons injured by the collision. The casualties were: --…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →East Clare Election of 1917. When De Valera Beat Lynch. Memories of the Day
News from overseas which tells us of the electioneering campaign which has just concluded in Clare, bring back to us who were there at the time memories of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Dail Election. Republican Defeat. Success of Ministers. LONDON, Aug. 28
The first progress returns received at Dublin in connection with the Free State elections suggest a sweeping victory for the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →State Parliament The Censure Motion
The debate on the Labour party's motion of censure was continued in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday evening. On the whole the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Moving Picture Show Reforming Parliament
Extract from Persnurkus Encyclopedia, 1948:-- In several long parliaments early in this century, Sir Thomas Henley sat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Parliament a Taxation Matter. Labour Party's Paltry Point
Melbourne, Thursday. Mr. Killen, the member for Riverina, has a proposal on the notice paper of the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA. Architects' Claims. Building the Parliament. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The president of the Federal council of the Institute of Architects of Australia, the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Sydney, and the president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Potted Parliament Saved at Last! End of Censure-comedy Premier Breathes Again Saved at last!
Amidst howls of Opposition rage, the Government applied the gag to the long-drawn agonies of the censure-comedy last night, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARLIAMENT 47 TO 35 Government Wins Censure and Closure Some "Grimm" Gurgles And Now To Work
The censure debate has ended, the censure motion has been defeated, and the Address-in-Reply carried in quite the regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Parliament—a Weekly Letter (Issued by the Federal Country Party Parliamentary Committee) Melbourne, 24th Aug., 1923. Abolition of Land Tax on Crown Leaseholds
The debate on the Land Tax Assessment Bill was continued on Monday. The Opposition strenuously opposed the proposal of the…
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