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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1930

410 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 13 of 21

Returned Men's Action Would Not Claim Preference Wollongong, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 August 1930 · page 1

Returned soldier members of the local Waterside Workers' Union this morning refused to take advantage of preference to returned soldiers in…

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Proposed Hospital Dunedoo's Dilemma War Chest Fund

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 33

There was a large gathering of town and district people at the meeting in the Lyceum Hall at Dunedoo on Saturday, August 16…

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Methodist Church Lessons From War

National Advocate · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 1

There was a good congregation considering the weather last Sunday night. Rev. R. C. Oakley continued his series of lessons from the Great War with…

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War Time Spy Old Frenchman Amazed Berlin

National Advocate · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 3

After court martial the sentence of death was passed in 1919 upon an aged Alsatian Charles Hartmann who has lived in the United States for…

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War Time Profits a Victorian Appeal Melbourne

National Advocate · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

Whether W. Angliss and Company Pty., Ltd., meat exporters and butchers, are liable to the Commonwealth for £34,144 for war time profits tax for…

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Fatal Fall a Soldier's Death Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 3

George Wright (50) laborer, of little Bloomfield Street, Surry Hills, died this morning at Sydney Hospital from injuries to the head received when he…

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Gun Play Suspects Wounded SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 2

While Constables Keily and Harrison were on duty at Newtown early yesterday morning they saw a car that had been reported stolen from…

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Three Shot One Man Critically Wounded Constable and Car Thieves an Early Morning Sensation Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 2

Three men alleged to have been using a stolen motor car were wounded, one critically, when after they had refused to stop Constable…

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Rush of Applicants Many Returned Soldiers

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 1

No fewer than 66 applications have been received for the post of engineer to Woodburn Shire, 30 of them being married returned soldiers…

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Wounded Motor Thieves Two Youths Charged Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1930 · page 2

When the occupants of a motor car suspected of having been stolen, refused to stop in King Street, Newtown, early yesterday morning Constable…

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Repudiation of War Debts and Rejection of Niemeyer Plan Will Lang Give His Support ?

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 1

A rumor was current in Labor circles to-day that Mr. Lang may support the attitude of the meeting at the Trades Hall last night which,…

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War Service Homes Australia's Great Feat 21,000 Throughout Common-wealth Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1930 · page 2

Australia has spent £28,560,000 on war service homes, and the total receipts have been £15,440,000. Houses to the number of 6402 have been…

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"War Is Over" Prisoners Learn News BERLIN

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 2

Two Germans who were imprisoned in Siberia have arrived at Bresleu. They state that they only learned by accident a year ago…

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The Garden Seed to Sow Now War on Weeds

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 32

The time is here when seeds of all the late spring and summer flowering plants must be sown to assure plenty of color in the garden, at…

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War Debts Question of Repudiation Mr. Fenton Emphatic. Labor Break Likely Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 2

It the Labor, movement endorses the war debts repudiation ultimatum of the New South Wales A.L.[?]. a breach between the Party and Federal Labor…

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Exiled for 15 YEARS Germans Learnt War Was Over and Then Escaped Berlin

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 1

Exiled in Siberia since 1915, three Germans only accidentally learned a year ago that the Great War had ended, so they escaped and set out to…

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Great Record of Many Years Real Soldiers' Story of Gallant Work

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 5

General Sir Charles H. Harington, G.O.C.-in-C., Western Command, recently visited Loralai and presented new colors to the 5th (Burma) Bn., 8th Punjab…

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Indomitable Old Soldier Assistance for Veteran Joseph Thom Who Lost Legs in Level Crossing Accident

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 4

It is pleasing to record that effort to obtain the issue of a pair of artificial legs to Mr. Joseph Thom, an innate of Lithgow hospital, have been…

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Co-operation of People Would Pull Australia Through Prisoners Just Learn that War is Over I Must Come Down Values Interest, Wages SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 August 1930 · page 2

The State Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) says that Australia should be proud of the fact that for the first time in history the…

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Siberian Exiles Only Just Heard Result of War BERLIN

National Advocate · Friday 29 August 1930 · page 5

Exiled in Siberia since 1915, two Germans, Kutzmischalski and Midralski only learned accidentally a year ago that the Great War had ended…

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