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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1925

438 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 22

Taree War Memorial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 4

A start has been made by the contractors, Messrs. Edstein and Sons, on the erection of Taree war memorial at the intersection of Victoria and Manning…

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War Trophies Destroyed by Fire. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 5

Six aeroplanes captured from the enemy during the war, and other materials belonging to the Australian War Museum, which were packed ready for…

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Female Attendant Escapes. Nurse Wounded with Shotgun. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 5

A patient escaped from the Hospital for the Insane and made her way to her former home at Cannington. Two nurses proceded in pursuit. Upon…

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Offer to Soldiers Overtures by Workers Federation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 5

At a meeting of the management committee of the Waterside Workers Federation to-day, it was decided to call a meeting of the union for Saturday next,…

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Preference Act Premier's Reply to Soldiers. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 5

The Premier, replying to the resolution of the Returned Soldiers League regretting the Government had seen fit to declare its intention of enforcing the…

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The Great War Germany's Casualties Dead 2,055,000; WOUNDED 4,248,000. BERLIN

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

The German Statistics office has published the exact figures relating to Germany's war casualties. These show:--Dead, 2,055,000 and wounded 4,248,000…

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WISDEN'S 1925 Almanac. Australians' Post-war Victories. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

Wisden's Cricket Almanac for 1925 names the South Africans Taylor and Catterall and the Englishmen MacBryan, Whysall and Tyldesley as the five…

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Soldiers and Sailors Bureau

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

The Attorney-General (Mr. Bavin), referring to a statement that he had said that the Soldiers and Sailors Waterside Workers Bureau had ceased to xeist and…

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Immigration. Lecture to British Soldiers. Cologne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

Under the auspices of the War Office Major Cyril Bavin, General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. National Council, lectured to the entire British army on the Rhine,…

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Returned Soldiers and the Federation. Linking Up Proposal Rejected. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

A meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Waterside Workers' Federation held to-night rejected by a small majority the proposal to amalgamate with the…

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Preference for Soldiers Federal Award and State Act. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

Last week, Arthur Leslie Mason proceeded against the Austral Stevedoring and Lighterage Company, Limited, for an alleged breach of the Preference Act…

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Volumnia's Captain Returned Men Join Federation Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

Two hundred members of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Waterside Workers Union were admitted to the Seamen's Federation to-day. About 100 members…

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War Boats at Singapore. Singapore

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 3

H.M.S. Chatham, Hawkins, Carlisle, Petersfield, Durban, and Bluebell arrived this morning and H.M.A.S. Sydney and Brisbane came in this afternoon…

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The Next War Importance of Aircraft Inquiry in America. Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 3

Rear-Admiral Sims, questioned by the House Aircraft Committee on Wartime Observation regarding the effectiveness of an aircraf attack on surface vessels,…

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German Duplicity The Disarmament Report a Sensational Statement Secret Stores and New War Material. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 3

Colonel Repington, writing in the 'Daily Telegraph." states that the contents of the Inter-Allied report on German disarmament have become widely…

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Border Line Brisbane to Kyogle Work at Queensland End Hitch Over Soldier Preference. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 5

Over 100 men are now engaged on the South Brisbane- Kyogle railway at Rocklea, Queensland. Mr. Salisbury, the Section Commissioner of Railways, said…

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Help ’Em On! Diggers Fight to Repatriate Themselves. Weaving of Anzac Tweed to be Carried On

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 3

When the work of repatriation was begun by the Victorians State War Council in 1945, returned disabled soldier were instructed in…

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Soldiers Holdings

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 4

Mr. Roy S. Vincent, M.L.A., is in receipt of a letter from the Under-Secretary for Lands stating, in reply to representations made concerning the…

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Soldier Settlers Queensland Inquiry. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 5

The conditions obtaining at the Beerburrum soldier settlement are being investigated on the spot by the Minister for Lands, Mr. McCormack…

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Singapore Base Labor Opposition Discussion in Commons What Leads to War? London

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 3

In the House of Commission, Mr. C. D. Hardie (Labor) asked whether the Government anticipated that the four-Power treaty with regard to the Pacific would…

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