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

The wars & local soldiers, 1955

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£14,000 Soldiers’ Club Extension Plan?

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 26 April 1955 · page 3

YASS SOLDIERS’ CLUB is considering making extensive alterations and additions to their premises at the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall. The Club proposes to…

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Young Anglicans Anzac Day At Harden

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 April 1955 · page 3

Yass Young Anglicans journeyed to Harden by bus on Anzac Day and spent an enjoyable day. The A basketball team was…

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Yass Man in Sydney Anzac March

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 April 1955 · page 2

A Canadian who has lived in Yass for nine months and is a member of the Department of Main Reads staff here went to…

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Press To Be Admitted To Soldiers’ Club Meetings

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 April 1955 · page 3

In future the Press will be admitted to all meetings of Yass Soldiers’ Club. This was decided at the annual…

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Lack of Flags on Anzac Day Comment By R.S.L. . Member

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 May 1955 · page 3

“There was one disappointing feature of this year’s Anzac Day, and that was the lack of flags in Cooma St.,”…

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Yass District Soldier’ Memorial and Literary Institute Library Hours

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 May 1955 · page 4

Nightly Monday to Friday inclusive, 7 to 8 p.m. Afternoon Tuesday and Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m…

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War on Serrated Tussock 900,000 Acres Infested In Southern Tablelands

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 June 1955 · page 3

“If you don’t chase it—it’ll chase you,” was the pertinent observation made by a councillor at a meeting of the Central and Southern Tableland Serrated Tussock Committee held in the Town Hall, Goulburn…

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[?]acitated Soldiers’ [?]ction Box Opened

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 June 1955 · page 2

[?]llection box on the front the Australian Hotel, in [?]ins are placed on behalf Totally and Permanently…

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Yass District Soldiers’ Memorial Hall Supper Room And Lounge To Be Used As Retail Market Supper Room and Lounge Offered at Increased Rent

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 June 1955 · page 1

The Soldiers’ Memorial Hall Council Agreed on Tuesday night to offer six further bookings to visiting traders for fortnightly markets and to raise the rent. The traders asked for additional space and the meeting…

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11 Foxes Killed Five Wounded

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 June 1955 · page 2

Twenty-eight men in a fox drive at the week-end on Mr. Herb Reardon’s property, “Rose Vale,” shot 11 foxes and wounded five…

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War Service Land Settlement Minister For Lands on Food Production

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 June 1955 · page 5

The answer to the increased food production problem is closer settlement with full development and the intensive use of land, said the Minister for Lands, Mr. Hawkins,…

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Soldiers Blocks Matter For Delegates

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 July 1955 · page 9

If an Ex-serviceman was in a permanent job he could not get a soldier settler block, said Mr. R. Merriman, at the last R.S.L…

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T.p.i. Soldiers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 July 1955 · page 3

A very welcome visitor to Yass last week was Mr. Frank H. Sharpe, liason officer Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers…

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Rifle Club Cups To Be Competed For First Time Since The War

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 25 July 1955 · page 3

For the first time since World War 11 the Triggs Bowl, Carey Cup and Ossie Young Cup will be in…

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Robbery At Soldiers’ Memorial Hall

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 25 July 1955 · page 2

Between 5.15 p.m. on Friday and 8.15 a.m. on Saturday thieves broke into the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall, and stole goods from…

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Yass Diggers May Race On Anzac Day

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 August 1955 · page 2

YASS R.S.L. decided on Saturday [?] to support the Diggers’ Race Club in its [?] to hold a meeting next Anzac Day. The decision, however was not…

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YASS R.S.L. Favours Race Meeting on Anzac Day Suggested That Profits Go To World War II Memorial

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 August 1955 · page 4

Yass R.S.L. decided at its last meeting to support the Yass Diggers’ Race Club in its application to hold a race meeting on Anzac Day. There was some disagreement…

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Yass Parents Visit Soldier Son’s Grave In New Guinea

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 August 1955 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. Percy Louis, of Pritchett Street, Yass, visited their soldier son’s grave in a New Guinea War…

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Soldier Settlers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 August 1955 · page 2

THE STATE R.S.L. Soldier Settlers’ Conference did the right thing in rejecting a proposal that the Federal Government…

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Yass District Soldiers’ Memorial and Literary Institute Library Hours

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 August 1955 · page 3

Nightly Monday to Friday inclusive. 7 to 8 p.m. Afternoons Tuesday and Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m…

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