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

The wars & local soldiers, 1950

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Soldiers Shot At Angels

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 1

LONDON: Target practice by soldiers quartered in the church at South Creake, Norfolk about 300 years ago…

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Taralga War Memorial

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 6

The re-lettering of the Taralga War Memorial has been completed and the monument looks much more presentable…

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Orange War on Disease

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 1

Mr. F. McFee, Deputy Health Inspector of the Orange City Council, said that Orange needed 15,000…

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A City Man Goes Shooting… Local War On The Rabbit

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 4

I understand that certain competent authorities are starting a drive to eradicate the rabbit. This gives me the greatest satisfaction. Not because I hold immense grazing interests which…

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How to Avert a Third War—colombo Talks

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 4

COLOMBO, Monday: The main problem to be solved at the Commonwealth Conference would be how to avert a third world war, the British Minister for Commonwealth Relations,…

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British War Pensions

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 5

Mr. Henry Forbes Calder, M.C. a chief executive officer of the British Ministry of Pensions, will visit Canberra from…

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Sheahan to Speak on Soldier Settlement

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

MR. W. F. SHEAHAN, Minister for Lands, paid his first visit Yass this morning since his indisposition in hospital. He said…

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Soldier Block and Road

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 1

At the request of the Land Board office, Goulburn, Mulwaree Shire Council has submitted an estimate of £216 for…

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Veterans Of World War I Succeed Flourishing Town In South Australia

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

Back in 1940, at Taplan, 22 miles east of the S.A. pastoral township of Loxton, a group of World War I veterans—wheat men and pastoralists of the arid Mallee—conceived an idea. To-day the bustling irrigation area of Loxton shows how…

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Soldier Settler Repayments

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 8

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said today that the rate of repayment of advances by soldier settlers under the…

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Soldier Settlers

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Lands. (Mr. Sheahan) said to-day tit at soldier settler on Edgeror, near Narrabri, had harvested a…

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“Returned Soldiers Not a Nine Day Wonder With Sheahan”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 4

“Returned soldiers are not going to be a nine-day wonder so far as I am concerned,” Mr. W. F. Sheahan, Minister for Lands, and member for Yass, told a deputation in Sydney last week…

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The New War Front

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

Some surprise was felt when the Waterside Workers' Federation staged a strike at the beginning of…

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Russia's War In The United Nations Boycott Again Extended

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 3

LAKE SUCCESS, Mon: Russia yesterday extended boycott of the Security Council to three more United Nations committees in protest against the presence of Chinese Nationalist delegates in…

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Soldier Settlers Get Results

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 8

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said this week that a soldier settler on Edgeroi, hear Narrabri, had harvested a wheat…

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Russia Stages a New Walk Out Extension Of Cold War

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 5

LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday: The Soviet bloc representatives further extended their boycott of the United Nations activities yesterday when delegates of Russia, Poland, Byolo-Russia and Czechoslovakia walked out of the economic and employment commission in protest ,…

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Soldier Settlement Govts, to Draft New Agreement

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 4

The Premier, Mr. McGirr, said he had asked the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, to arrange a conference…

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Remarkable Success of Soldier Settlers. 17 Bags of Wheat to the Acre

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 6

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said to-day that a soldier settler on Edgeroi, near Narribri, had harvested a wheat crop…

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Repayment From Soldier Settlers on the Increase Statement by Minister for Lands

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 6

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheaham) said to-day that the rate of repayment of advances [?]y soldier settlers under the war…

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First War Land Failures

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 4

In a letter to the S.M. Herald N. W. Holman, Cootamundra, writes: The Minister for Lands, Mr. suggests that if…

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