N.S.W. LOCAL ELECTIONS
SYDNEY, December 3; Following one of the bitterest election campaigns for many 'years, the Civic Reform Party appears certain to retain its governing majority on the Sydney City Council. The primary votes indicate that the party will hold 12 of the council's 20 seats, with official and Lang Labour holding the remainder. Only one voter in six went to the polls.
The first council in- New South Wales to return a Communist Party majority is Kearsley Shire, on the northern coalfields, the centre of the most recent mining disputes. There in a council of eight, five members represent the Communist Party.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 6
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104N.S.W. LOCAL ELECTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 6
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