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

The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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P. & C. Memorial Library and Honour Roll

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 3

The usual monthly meeting of the Yass P. and C. Association held on Tuesday, June 18, in the Lecture Room at the Memorial Hall…

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Practising with Rockets for the Next War Experiments in New Mexico

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 8

To-morrow's push-button war got its first fulldress showing at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. On a dusty desert flat, surrounded by Salvador Dali mountains, hundreds of newsmen,…

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World War Iii. Preview Present-Day Bomb Over a City Could Kill 300,000 People

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK: Some Americans have almost forgotten the atomic bomb. Some think of it as just another weapon and think that an atomic war will be just another war. This week such ostrich notions were rudely jolted. "One World…

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Women and War “Men Had Got World Into Terrible Mess” Protest by Associated Country Women of World

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 3

“At present man had all the say and they got the world into a terrible mess. As most of the women throughout the…

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Certificate for War Service Girl's Design Accepted

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 3

The design of a war certificate by a young Goulburn artist, Miss Beth Hamilton, has been accepted by the City…

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Waging War on Cancer in United States Atomic Bomb a Challenge

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK: A maxim of Hippocrates, in Old English lettering, hangs beside the desk of Dr. Roscoe Roy Spencer in Bethesda, Md. Life is short,…

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War Neurosis Soldier Patients

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 2 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Servicemen affected by war neurosis often of a temporary nature, have been sent to civilian mental asylums and…

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South African War District Men Who Served

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 8

Having noticed the appearance in honour roll which has appeared in the "Gazette" from time to ime, of the name of Harry Spiers, Mr. O. S…

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Street Kiosk for Limbless Soldier

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 5

Goulburn's first street kiosk is in course of construction at the corner of Auburn and Montague Streets. A wooden building, the kiosk is being built under the elm tree…

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Turning Soldiers Back Into Useful Citizens Government's Training Scheme Outlined

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 4

More than 50 people, a large percentage of whom were ex-servicemen, listened with great interest to an address by Mr. V. Gibbins, of the Re-Establishment Division of the Department of Post-War…

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Cunningar News Welcome Home

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 4

Cunningar folk again turned out in force to welcome home another local lad, Corporal Fred Freebody, R.A.A.F…

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Murrumburrah Central School War Memorial Fund Donations Now Exceed £200

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 3

The P. & C. project of installation of modern wireless equipment and a sound-proof projector at the Murrumburrah Central School…

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The World's Greatest Rice Farm Wakool in Peace As in War

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 1

As the Farm Mechanisation Scheme which I had the honour on Introducing is playing an peace as important a part in the economic…

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Donations to War Memorial Fund

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 1

More donations of Boorowa and District War Memorial Fund have been received…

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Queen Competition to Aid War Memorial

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 1

A queen competition will be conducted in Boorowa and district for the purpose of raising funds for the war memorial…

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Kennel Club's Success Record Entry Marks Post-War Show

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 6

Fully justifying the hard work involved by its organisation, the Goulburn Kennel Club which had been in recess for the past five years, went into action in no, uncertain manner when it staged a show at the…

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Woodhouselee Welcome Home Social

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

More than 90 people from Sydney, Goulburn, Crookwell, Kingsdale and Roslyn attended a welcome home social at…

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Booksellers Cut Prices to Sell War Books

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 2

Many Sydney booksellers are cutt[?]g the prices of war books in an effort to sell them. Books with a war background are…

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Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 July 1946 · page 1

At the last meeting of the Soldiers Memorial and Literary Institute, the president, Mr. John Moore, was in the chair, and also present were:…

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£3,000 Requried Soldiers' Memorial Club

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 1

It is expected that the cost of purchasing a building and structural alterations for conversion into a Returned…

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