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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1930

333 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 17

Preference to Soldiers Industrial Conscription Labor Climbs Down

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 16 May 1930 · page 3

"Caught red-handed in the very act of attempting to jettison preference to returned soldiers, the Federal Labor Government has been forced by…

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The Unknown Soldier. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 May 1930 · page 5

After eleven years the secret as to how the unknown warrior was chosen from thousands lying…

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JUNE 30 Next Last French Soldier to Leave Germany. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 May 1930 · page 5

Conditional on Germany fulfilling per promises and 'conditions the French 'Cabinet decided that the last French' soldier must quit Germany on June 30…

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Federal Senate Cactoblastus Experiments War Memorial in France Constitution Alteration Bills. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 May 1930 · page 4

In the Senate, Senator Daly informed Senator McLachlan that advice had been received that in Queensland the cactoclastus had attacked a patch of unripe…

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Clothing for Workless Returned Soldiers First Labor Objections. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 May 1930 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, replying to Mr. Hamilton Knight (Lab.), the Premier said arrangements had been made by the Government with the Returned…

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When Gun Exploded Two Boys Wounded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 May 1930 · page 5

As the result of a gun exploding last night, Bruce Cook, 8 years, and John Kingsbury, 9 years, were admitted to the Coast Hospital, with gunshot wounds,…

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Soldier's Family Authorities Should Do Proper Thing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 May 1930 · page 5

When recording a finding that Terence John. O'Brien, 37, whose hatless, bootless body was found in the bush at St. Ives, had died from exposure and starvation…

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"Good Bye. Dear" Soldier Pensioner Found in Park. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 May 1930 · page 2

Robert McCarthy, 39, who was found in Belmore Park suffering from the effects of poison, died shortly after admission to hospital…

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Soldier Pensioners Right of Appeal to Tribunal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 May 1930 · page 5

It has been established that a returned soldier has the right of appeal to the War Pension Entitlement Tribunal for retrospective pension in eases in which the…

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Woman Fined £50 Collected War Pension After Husband's Death. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 May 1930 · page 4

When Ruby Ranginui, 30, a domestic, appeared before the Central Court to-day it was alleged that she had made a false statement concerning a war pension and…

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"Futility of War" Forty Years to Forget. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 June 1930 · page 2

The Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, himself a South African veteran, attended the reunion dinner of the South African Soldiers' Association…

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"War on the Blowfly."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 June 1930 · page 8

As a result of the demand for the booklet "War on the Blowfly,' the Shell Company have made another free issue available to all bona-fide graziers or…

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Machine Guns America's Gang War Thirteen Killed Chicago Leads the Way. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 June 1930 · page 5

Eleven gangsters and two policemen were killed over the week-end in one of the worst recrudescences of gang warfare ever recorded in the…

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Fighting in China Trainloads of Wounded Govt. Troops Facing Defeat. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 June 1930 · page 5

Authentic, reports reveal that the Nationalists are facing defeat at the hands of the Northern Coalition on all fronts. A serious situation has developed and that…

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Press Conference Address By Lloyd George Dominions and the War Story of Empire Development. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1930 · page 5

With his mane of white our smoothly brushed back, and speaking quierly and with restraint, Mr. .Lloyd George opened his address to the Conference with…

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Miss Johnson and the Soldiers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1930 · page 4

Everybody was in happy mood at the returned soldiers' reception and farewell concert to Miss Amy Johnson, at His Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, on Monday…

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Heckling Communists Labor Council Disturbance Preference to Returned Soldiers Resented. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1930 · page 5

Disorderly scenes marked the meeting of the Sydney Labor Council last night. Throughout the proceedings the speakers were heckled by a number of communists,…

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GUNMEN Busy Week-End Two Men Wounded Police Make Two Arrests. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 June 1930 · page 5

When Constable Grimes disturbed a man on a vacant allotment near his homo at Dee Why last night, the man menaced him with a revolver…

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Sentenced Soldiers Released. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 June 1930 · page 3

It has been learned that all Australian soldier who transferred to New South Wales [?] after the war to serve sentence in[?]sed on them by…

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A Woman on War "Not So Quiet" an Extraordinary War Novel

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 June 1930 · page 3

A woman's views on war, written in vivid, arresting language, with no attempt to introduce any glamour into the subject are to be found in "Not So Quiet," by…

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