Hurstville By-election Opening of Campaign. Mr. Clive Evatt's Meeting
The campaign to elect a representative for the Electorate of Hurstville in the State Parliament, caused by the death of Dr. J. E. Webb, U.A.P.,…
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The Candidates
The Hurstville U.A.P. organisation held a ballot last Friday to select a candidate to contest the election of a representative for the Hurstville…
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We have chosen as our standard-bearer Mr. Clive Evatt, K.C., and our policy is that of the new A.L.P. leadership, created to combat the inertia that has…
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A man was allaged to have struck at Mr. Clive Evatt, K.C., Heffron Labor candiate for Hurstville, last night, at the…
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For the first time an election for the position of president was necessary at the annual meeting of the Randwick Rugby Union Club last night…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Education for Refugees. Question in Parliament
The Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, was asked in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by Mr. S. A. Lloyd (U.A.P., Concord) whether his department was making funds…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Parliament Vital Need For Mine Safety Expense of Coal Commission No Object
"HEALTH and safety coalmines are so important that the expenditure of a few thousand pounds on a Royal Commission is not worthy worrying about."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hurstville Campaign. Mr. Lang Attacks Government. By-election Speeches
The leader of the Opposition, Mr. Lang, officially opened the campaign for Alderman J. F. McGrath, the Lang candidate in the Hurstville by-election,…
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Cardinal Pacelli was elected at the third ballot of the Conclave of Cardinals and on his 63rd birthday. He appeared on the Vatican balcony…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cardinal Pacelli Is New Pope. Papal Secretary of State. Election by Conclave on Third Ballot. Tremendous Excitement in Rome. Vatican City, March 2 (A.A.P.)
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the Papal Secretary of State, was elected Pope to-day. His title is Pope Piux XII. White smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at 5.30 p.m. (local time) provided the first news of the election…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To Contest Boulder Election Communist Member Would Strengthen Labor Government Perth
The Communist Party has decided to enter the election fray. will contest Boulder. Bill Mountjoy, popular Secretary of the Party District Committee, will be the Party candidate. Six years ago he put up a good show in Boulder. On this…
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As advertised elsewhere in this issue the by-election campaign of the endorsed Labor Party candidate, Aid. F. McGrath, Deputy Mayor of…
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PERTH, Thursday.--Offers of assistance are pouring in from school children willing to help Miss Dorothy Tangney, the school teacher, who is Labor's candidate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A.L.P. Election Notes Civil Servants For Evatt Can Stop Govt.'s Onslaught on Salaries
MATTERS of vital importance to public servants will be stressed by Labor speakers in the Hurstville electorate to-night. Speakers point out that the recent actions of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Candidates for Selection Committee League Appointments To Be Made On
THERE will be several new candidates for the New South Wales Rugby League selection committee to be appointed on Monday night. Last year the selectors were Messrs. F. Burge, A. Fraser, F…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →State Parliament Blame For Panic In Native Camp Court Uniformity; £170,000 Saving on Insurance
THE Chief Secretary, Mr. Gollan, in Parliament yesterday, blamed Mr. J. T. Patten, of the Aborigines' Progressive Association, for the recent trouble at Cumeroogunga aboriginal station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pope Pius Xii's Appeal to World. "International Justice and Concord." Impressive Broadcast. Wide Satisfaction at Election. Vatican City, March 3 (A.A.P.)
Pope Pius XII, broadcasting in Latin to the world to-day, made an impassioned appeal for international justice and concord, to enable the peoples to continue their civilised progress. The programme of the Pontificate, he said, would be the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'Pope Chosen by All' Unanimity at Election His Holiness Begins Day At Old Desk In Vatican LONDON
The Vatican was early astir to-day. The new Pope, Pius XII. (formerly Cardinal Pacelli) worked at the same desk as he had used for years as his predecessor's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Battle Of Policies In By-Election
A BATTLE of loud-speakers greeted the U.A.P. candidate, Dr. Thomas, when he made his first open-air address in the by-election campaign at Hurstville last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A.L.P. Election Notes Sub-Standard Dwellings One in Every 12 Families Lives in Slum
ONE in every 12 families in the metropolitan area is housed under slum conditions. This is stated by officials of the N.S.W. Housing Board. There are at least 30,000 dwellings in the inner…
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