Election of Housewives' Association
ONE of the most prominent figures in public life in Melbourne, Mrs. John Downing, was elected president of the Federated…
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Must Hold Elections
Sir,--The Australian public must not let itself be stampeded by the Government into dispensing with its constitutional right to express…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local Government Elections. Fa[?] Council Against Postponing
A motion by Ald. J. Henshaw, that Fairfield Council protest against the Government's proposal to postpone the local government elections until alter the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cabramatta Catholic Club Election of Officers
The half-yearly business of cle[?] of officers took place last Tuesday, and the following members are to be congratu lated on their appointment to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Municipal Elections: Not Till Completion of War. Present Councils Will Continue In Office
It has been announced that the municipal elections which formerly were scheduled to be held in December of this year, now been indefinitely postponed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Elections for Councils. Wide Support for Postponement
Of the 300 councils in New South Wales circularised by the Local Government Association, 100 favoured postponements of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Republican Candidate
MR. WENDELL WILLKIE, who has been nominated us the Republican candidate for the United States Presidential election…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Candidate Fordalley
Mr. w. R. Allen has been selected as A.L.P. candidate for the Dalley seat in the Federal Parliament. Messrs. P. Connors and G. Cooper were also…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Roosevelt Re-election Would Help Britain and U.S.A. New York
FOR the first time the United States is badly frightened, but a succession of severe scares is needed before the nation as a whole wakes up to the reality that the Nazi threat of world domination is still a danger…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Defence of Ireland. United Parliament Opposed. LONDON, June 30. (A.A.P.)
The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon, in a speech in County Down, said that, if an allIreland Parliament had been in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Labor Candidate
Mr. Peter Warren has been selected and endorsed as Labor's candidate for Warringah by the Warringah Federal Electorate Council…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rowley Wins Ermington Election
By 30 votes to 22, Mr. Claude Bligh Rowley, poultry. farmer, and an ex-employee of the council, defeated Mr. Alfred Edward Maling for the vacancy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Elections Must Not Be Postponed
Electors must not be denied their Constitutional right to pass judgment on the Wartime Dictatorship Powers Implemented by the Menzies Government…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →G.n. Candidates in Good Trial
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Excellent Grand National Hurdle trials were recorded at Mentone today by Exmoor (S. McKee) and Cheery Jack (L…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Waverley Children of Mary. Election of Officers
The Children of Mary Sodality, Waverley, held their monthly meeting recently, and the annual election of officers took place. The following members wore elected…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Labor Wants Election Test on War Policy
Behind all the inspired propaganda for postponement of the Federal elections, there is evident a fear that, given the opportunity, the Australian people would sweep from office the present Government. In rejecting the coalition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Election Inquiry
BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- "By his delinquency, P. J. Hughes, returning officer for Hamilton, must be held responsible for all that…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →G.N. Candidate's Bad Breakdown
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Riff, a prominent Grand National Hurdle candidate, broke down so badly in the Strathaird Hurdle at Moonee Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hugh Main Upper House Candidate
Mr. Hugh Main, of Temora, will contest the Legislative Council vacancy caused through the imprisonment of Mr. Trautwein…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Raid Precautions Successful Candidates
The A.R.P. examination for the first class of 1940 was held at the Council Chambers, Fairfield, on Tuesday, July 2, at 8 p.m…
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