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Politics & elections, 1937

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Polling Day in Vast Gwydir Area Rainfall May Upset Farmer Votes Final Shots In "Battle Of The Gold Passes" Chances Are Even Narrabri

The Sun · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 3

RAIN fell m many parts of the Gwydir electorate today and it is feared that some farmers will be unable to reach the polling booths. This will cost the Country Party candidates a…

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German Floodlights for Parliament House N.S.W. Celebrates Coronation Plenty of Bunting to Hide the Cracks

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 4

AMONG the sights of Sydney's Coronation celebrations will be the State Parliament House, which is still standing (with the aid of props) in Macquarie Street. Floodlights have been arranged along the balcony…

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To-day's Football Prospects Rugby Union Test for State Team Candidates. Manly on Home Ground

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 21

Interest in the sixth round of Rugby Union premiership matches, to be decided this afternoon, will be increased because of the fact that the State selectors to-night will choose…

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York By-election. Win for Peer's Son. LONDON, May 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 18

A by-election to elect a representative of the York constituency to the House of Commons in place of Mr. L. R. Lumley (Conservative), who has been appointed Governor…

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Gwydir Fight. By-election To-day. Close Result Expected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 18

Even the most experienced political observers confessed yesterday that they were unable to predict the result of the by-election for the Gwydir…

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Labor Sure of Smashing Victory Enthusiasm on Eve of Election Final Rallies In Gwydir Tell Own Story No Confidence in Govt. Narrabri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 1

WITH the last shots fired in one of the most vigorous by-election campaigns on record the Labor Party organisers right through the vast electorate of Gwydir to-night are confidently awaiting the result of to-morrow's voting, satisfied beyond all doubt that if will not only…

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Election Over Hospital Stir?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday.--A new development in the Hospital Board controversy is the possibility of a by-election. Mrs. R. J. Tillyard, whose nomination…

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Final Fling on Election Eve Labor's Marathon Talk Drowns the Opposition Inverell

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 1

FINAL rallies on both sides are being held all over Gwydir tonight, but Inverell must have outdone all other centres. Mr. Thorby's Country Party meeting had no chance from the start. He spoke to a sparse audience from a lorry at a street corner…

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GOSSIP Love Laughs At Tax Gatherers--Parliament Seat Depends Oil Gold--Curlewis Is No 'Hoptimist'--Camera Story of Darkest Papua What's Become of ? (No. 40) A. D. KAY

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 13

FOR years a spruiker in Sydney Domain, then M.L.A., for North Sydney, then a member of the Meat Board, A. D. Kay, the man who…

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Politics and Politicians Pointers for the General Election Indications Taken From the Polling in Gwydir of Necessity This Article Is Written Before Gwydir Polling Has Taken Place, But When It Is Published the Count Will Have Proceeded Sufficiently to Point to the Probable Result

The Sun · Sunday 9 May 1937 · page 8

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Labor Wins the Gwydir Seat Scully Led From the First Count and Was Never Headed Majority Over C.P. CANDIDATES Hottest Campaign For Years NARRABRI, Sunday Morning

Truth · Sunday 9 May 1937 · page 1

SECURING a lead from the first returns received in the Gwydir by-election last night, the Labor candidate, Mr. Scully, held his advantage during the night and when counting ceased had a substantial majority over the combined votes of…

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By-Election Tide Sets Strongly Against Country Party Labor's Big Lead in Gwydir Poll Scully 4021 Ahead of Combined Country Party Totals Narrabri

The Sun · Sunday 9 May 1937 · page 2

Returns, when counting ceased, gave Labor a lead of 4021 over the combined totals of the Country Party candidates in the Gwydir Federal by-election. The figures then were:--…

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Home News. Gwydir By-election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 1

When the counting of votes in the by-election for a Federal representative of Gwydir ceased last night, Mr. W. J. Scully, the Labour representative, was leading the Country party…

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Canberra Hospital. Challenge to Mr. Hughes. "Hold a By-election." Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 9

In a further statement upon the dispute regarding the management of the Canberra Community Hospital to-day. Dr. L. W. Nott, with whom other members of the Hospital…

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Labour Candidate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 10

MR. W. J. SCULLY. When counting in the Gwydir by-election ceased last night. Mr. Scully still had a substantial lead…

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Win for Labor in St. PETERS By-Election Goes To Hogan Wide Margin

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 1

BY the return of Mr. W. Hogan at the head of the poll, Labor scored a signal in the by-election for Brompton Ward of St. Peters…

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Alleged Unhealthy Buildings. Public Service Charge. Bomb Suggested for Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 17

Allegedly unhygienic buildings and unhealthy conditions in Government offices in Sydney and other capital cities were criticised yesterday at the…

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U.A.P. Candidate for Werriwa. Bulli

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 9

At the annual meeting of Werrima Divisional Conference of the United Australia party, held at Bulli Pass, on Saturday, Mr. H. M. Storey, was selected candidate for the next…

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Election Fake A.E.U Leaders Flout Voters

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY.—The controlling bureaucracy of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union in the Sydney and northern New South Wales…

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Examinations for Plumbers Advantage to Country Candidates

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 6

The N.S.W. Plumbers, Sewer Plumbers, Water Plumbers and Drainers' Examining Board, which is now responsible for the conduct of examinations for all water…

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