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

The wars & local soldiers, 1950

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War Memorial Architect Here

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 May 1950 · page 6

Mr. E. B. Mowbray, of the Sydney architect firm of Brown and Mowbray, is expected to arrive in Crookwell on…

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Letters to the Editor Taralga and District War Memorial Appeal

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 May 1950 · page 8

Sir, It is just four years since the first appeal was launched for funds to build a Memorial Hall in…

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War Service Land Settlement Part "Tooma" Estath Tumbarumba

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 1

ATTENTION is invited to a Justification in the Government Gazette of 19th May, 1950, setting apart one farm for Closer…

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Thirty Sheep and Wheat Farms for Soldier Settlers

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 2

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) announced this week that the resumption of 37,000 acres of "Ghoolendaadi" Estate,…

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Soldier Settler Married At Junee

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 3

Visitors went to Junee from Melbourne, Sydney, Kiewa, Leeton, Crookwell and Goulburn as well as the surrounding…

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Member For Hume On Soldier Settlement

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 7

The Member for Hume, Mr. Charles Anderson, M.H.R., asked the following questions concerning soldier settlement in the…

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Cmf "Better Trained Than Pre-war"

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 5

The Army Director of Infantry, Brigadier I. R. Campbell, who recently completed a 20,000-mile…

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30 Farms For Soldiers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 2

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) has announced the resumption of over 37,000 acres of “Ghoolendaadi” Estate,…

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Gunning Soldiers’ Memorial Gates

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

On Sunday morning representatives of the R.S.L. and the Memorial Committee met Mr. Greenwood Webb, worker in…

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MURRUMBATEMAN Soldiers’ Memorial Park Oval

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 8

At a recent general meeting of the Murrumbateman Agricultural Bureau and Progress Association, the president, Mr. F. C. Connor,…

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Soldier Settlement Took Second Place to Banking Legislation

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 4

“It is as apparent as anything that preference to returned soldiers was forgotten while preference to banks and its legislation was acted upon,” states Mr. W. F. Sheahan, Minister for Lands, replying to a Hansard…

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First Day Decisive in Next War

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 5

DETROIT, Mon.: The decisive phase of a new war will be fought the day it breaks out, according to General George C. Kenney, famous U.S. Air Force personality of the Pacific War. He said to-day that dozens of…

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War Warning

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 8

General George Kenney, U.S. Air Chief, has warned about the possibility of America being knocked out…

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Soldier Settlement “Canberra Conference Quite a Success As Far As It Went”

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 June 1950 · page 3

Speaking at Cootamundra, the Minister for Lands, Mr. W. F. Sheahan referred to the recent conference at…

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U.S. and New Weapons of War Guided Missiles: More Flying Saucers

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 5

NEW YORK, Mon.: The United States has a guided missile capable of destroying aircraft flying a supersonic speed…

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Back From War Service

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 3

An interesting personality, Miss Hilda Stenson, who attended the Reunion of O.L.M.C. ex-students for the first time for about fifteen years, has been abroad and did seven years war nursing service in the English Army…

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Atom War

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 5

The American Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said all responsible men agreed that a preventive war…

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No Limit to R.A.F. Role in War Statement In House Of Lords

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Thurs.: Britain has no intention of limiting the role of the R.A.F. in any future war to fighters and short range defence," Lord Alexander, Government spokesman and former…

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Soldiers’ Club Tournaments Result of First Round

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 6

Following are the results in the first rounds of the snooker and Russian pool tournaments being played at the Soldiers' Club:…

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Russia and War

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

MOSCOW, Tuesday: A resolution expressing complete solidarity with the petition to outlaw atomic…

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