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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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Local and General Welcome Home To-night

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 2

Sponsored by the Yass sub-branch of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A., a dance to welcome serving members of the fighting forces home on…

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Crookwell And Proposed War Memorial

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 3

At a meeting held on Friday June 23, a further stage was reached in the preparatious for a War Memorial for Crookwell. The following definite…

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WOOL: Post-War Marketing

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: Consumption of wool in Great Britain is estimated to be only slightly more than half the pre-war total. In 1938 the quantity used was about the equivalent weight of over 2,000,000 bales. This decrease…

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Wills, War-cpt. in France

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 3

If And A.B.C. broadcaster, to London before the war been a B.B.C. man ever is sending vivid war stories…

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Post War Planning Is Goulburn Ready

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 2

"We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us."—Winston Churchill…

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Australia After The War Migration Will Be One Of The Major Problems

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 1

One of Australia's major post-war problems was migration. Without increased population she could not provide adequate means of protection. This was stated by four members of the…

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U.S. Policy and Small Firms War Gives Impetus To Programmes For Aid Of The Little Man

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 6

June 7: War has given a new impetus to Government programmes designed to help small business all over the United States. War economy of course tends to hit small companies…

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War Loan Organiser for Murrumburrah Harden

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 4

Owing to the re-arrangement of War Loan Districts, Mr. G. K. Gregory, War Loan Organiser, of Goulburn, will take over portion of the…

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Gunning News Farewell Social To Airmen and Soldier

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 1

At the Industrial Hall on Friday night the Gunning Shire Patriotic Committee tendered a social to five members of the fighting forces…

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Soldiers’ Memorial & Literary Institute Annual Flower Show

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 2

The monthly meeting of the Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute was held in the Reading Room on Tuesday night. The…

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Soldiers’ Club Expanding Membership Lease of Lecture Room Anticipated

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 2

To meet the anticipated need to provide more accommodation for the Soldiers’ Club, an adjustment of the Soldiers’…

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Memorial Hall Charges For Returned Soldiers’ Welcome Functions

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 3

At the meeting of the Soldiers’ Memorial Council on Tuesday night, Mr. Bryson, secretary of the R.S.S. & A.I. League, drew…

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That Market In China In The Post War Days

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 July 1944 · page 1

No country in the world will be in a better position than Australia to trade with China when the war is over, according to officials at the Chinese Legation in Canberra, and it is understood that certain preliminary talks have…

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War Loan Organiser For Yass

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 3

[?] to the re-arrangement of [?] Districts, Mr. G. K. Greg[?] Loan Organiser, will take [?]tion of the district previously…

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The Martinet Of The War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 1

LONDON: "Greenie," possibly Britain's best-known barmaid, who ruled the 400-year-old White Hart Inn at Lewes, Sussex, with a rod…

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Flying Bomb War Installations Are Raided

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday: Flying bomb installations in northern France were again attacked by British and…

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Post-War: C.W.A. Group to Discuss Reconstruction Problems

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 1

A preliminary meeting in connection with the C.W.A. Post-War Discussion Groups was held at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, prior…

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Development in the North Mackay Has Its Plans Ready For The Post War Period

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 1

While in Mackay (Queensland), Mr. P. Smith, manager of the City of Goulburn Gas Company, was shown a new plan of Mackay drawn by the council and its city engineer. It was a post-war plan for what Mackay…

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Australian And American Soldiers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 3

The commander of Australian troops (Centre, left), who joined with American forces in a great pincers movement on New Guinea's Huon Peninsula, shakes hands with U.S. soldier when the two forces linked up near Saidor, on Feb. 11…

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The Pacific War As It Is Seen Through Canadian Eyes

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 July 1944 · page 5

Although the Canadian Government is preparing for a drive against Japan through north-western Canada and Alaska, Allied plans depend to an extent on the Canadian people's attitude to the Pacific…

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