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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1924

434 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 20 of 22

Land Settlement Departmental Report Subdivision of Private Estates. 7000 Ex-soldiers on the Land. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 November 1924 · page 5

The report of the Lands Department was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly to-night. The report states the the area of Grown lands available…

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War Museum. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 4

A deputation from the Returned Soldiers' League interviewed Mr. Bruce, Prime Minister, and requested the Federal Government to house the war museum in…

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Collection for Invalid Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 4

Adjt Drury, officer in charge of the local Salvation Army Corps, has been requested to conduct a street collection to-day in aid of New South Wales…

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Telegrams. Ex-soldiers' Rates. Discussion at Council Meeting. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 5

At St. Mary's Council meeting last night the council clerk said they had no hope in the world of getting the soldiers of the A.I.F. on mixed farms at Lenore…

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News of the World. Consulates Closing. Post Office Employees. Windfall for Ex-soldiers. London, Thursday. Mexico Severs Commercial Relations. Mexico City

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 5

The Appeal Court decided in favor of the employees in the last of six test eases in connection with the Post Office clerks and telegraphists' claim to full civil pay The Minister for Foreign Affairs has ordered all the Mexican consulates in Canada and other British Dominions to be closed by November 20, in accordance…

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Inverell War Memorial

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

The Inverell war memorial, at the intersection of Otho and Evan streets, has been completed, and is a most imposing, column of Uralla granite, in the…

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China's War. Generals in Conference. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 November 1924 · page 5

Renter's Peking correspondent says General Feug Yu Hsiang left for Tientsin to-day. where be will meet chang [?] Lin and Tuan Chi Hjui. It is…

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Up in Arms. the North Coast. War on Government

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 3

They are up in arms on the North Coast against the Government, for what is said to be its failure to provide in the Loan…

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White Australia Policy. Is It a Provocative of War? Wellington, N.Z.

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

Archbishop Julius, Primate of New Zealand, speaking at the Armistice service, said the "White Australia" policy is perhaps as provocative of…

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Chinese War Wu Pei Fu Healthy and Hopeful Will Return to Peking. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 5

Renter's Tientsin correspondent- states that Feng Yu, Hsiang and Chang Tso Lin have arrived for the conference. They were, accompanied by a bodyguard…

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Soldier Settlers' Re-valuation Board

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

Mr. Vincent (Oxley) was informed by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Wearne) that the Soldier Settlers' Re-Valuation Board would be appointed as soon as…

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Limbless and T.b. Soldiers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 2

In connection with the Armistice celebrations, Mr. Grant Hanlon, secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, who is making an appeal for funds on…

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Try to Prevent War. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 November 1924 · page 5

The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), speaking at Wongarbon, in the Orange district, said on Armistice Day that everyone should resolve to do all…

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Anzac Day Will Be Close Holiday

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 2

The Chief Secretary stated on Tuesday night that he intended to proceed with legislation to make Anzac Day a close holiday. Amendments of…

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The Chinese War (?)

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 2

All this fuss in the cables about the alleged war in China being ended gets me guessing. War? Chinese as fighters? No, to one…

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Soldier's Sacrifice

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 2

Eleven people attended the Caulfield Military Hospital and submitted to a blood test, the doctors having announced that transfusion of blood was…

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New South Wales Returned Soldier-teachers' Association

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 7

The annual meeting and reunion of members of the above association will be held in the assembly room, Department of Education, on Monday, December £2, at…

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Swallowed His Teeth. Returned Soldier's Death. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 6

J. McArthur, a returned soldier, swallowed three false teeth and a plate on Saturday night. Two operations were performed on the throat and McArthur…

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Ex-soldiers Wages Docked. Armistice Day Stoppage. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 November 1924 · page 5

Much feeling has been evinced owing to the fact that 600 ex-servicemen employed in the gas main department of the Manchester Corporation, had their…

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Soldier Settler. Evidence in Bankruptcy Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 November 1924 · page 5

In the Bankruptcy Court to-day Walter Evans, a returned soldier settler, said in 1918 he took tip a farm near Grenfell under the Returned Soldiers' Settlement…

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