Soldiers' Protest. Against Immigration Office Appointment
At a, meeting which was held in the Place Sydney, on Friday, returned s[?] protested against the appointment of G. R. Bryant as Immigration Officer of[?]…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1920
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A Constable Shot. by a Returned Soldier
A shooting affray occurred at Pyramid Hill, near Bendigo (Vic.), when Constable Taylor was shot in the abdomen by a returned soldier, who had been at the front…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Government and Returned Soldiers
Although repatriation is mainly a reu[?] Government concern, State Governments have particularly to do with land settlement, and they can also do a great deal in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Canberra Leases. Soldiers' Settlement Blocks
With a view to pooularising the Federal capital territory at Canbern, arrangements have been made to make blociks of land available for soldiers' settlement, on leases…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lochinvar Soldiers' Memorial
A meeting of subscribers to the Lochinvar and Kienbah District Soldiers' Memorial Fund will be held in the School of Arts. Lochinvar, on Thursday night next, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Memorial Concert
The programme of the concert arranged by Miss Rita Pilgrim, L.A.B., in aid of the Soldiers' Memorial, to be held in the Town Hall on Thursday exening next is of unusual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Condemned Soldier. Question of Sanity. London
The Appeal Court refused an application to permit a surgical examination of Holt with the view of testing his sanity. Council suggested that the prisoner was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Telegrams Returned Soldier Electrocuted. Sydney
Tom Griffins, 34, a reurned soldier, was electrocuted at Perth this morning while repairing street electric wires. It was only a 440 volt current, but he died from shock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' League
A special general meeting of the Returned Soldiers' League will be held in the club-rooms, School of Arts, to-night (Tuesday), at 7.30. Business ia important. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Pensions. Provisions of New Repatriation Bill
While the new Repatriation Bill provides a fixed maximum rate of pension of £4 a week to totally and permanently incapacitated soldiers, the general scale applicable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nurse' War Story
We have received from Angus, and Robertson, Ltd., of Castlereagh-street, Sydney, through McDonald Bros., West Maitland, in book of great interest entitled "Letters of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After the War Australian's Impressions
M T. H. Kelly, who has returned to Sydney after an absence of nine months, during which he stayed for a considerable time in England, and visited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Gratuity Mr. Hughes' Proposals
In the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon Mr Hughes introdused the War Gratuity Bill, and made his second reading speech…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Returned Soldiers and Sailors. Preference of Employment Act
Under the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Employment Act, 1919, a brief resume of whiea is supplied by the Department of Labour and industry, it is provided that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Returned Soldier Farmers
Returned soldiers settled or about to settle on the land within the East Maitland-Morpeth-Tarro Shire repatriation area desirous of participating in the distribution of poddy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Preference of Employment To Returned Soldiers and Sailors. Engagement of Labor Through the State Labour Exchanges
On the l6th December last Royal assent was given to the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Employment Act, 1919, and the Department of Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers' Gratuity. How It Is to Be Paid Bill Introduced
In the House of Representatives, on Friday, a Bill was introduced for the promised payment of a gratuity to the soldiers who took part in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welcome Home at Largs
A welcome home and presentation to Private Aubrey Gallop will take place in the Largs School of Arts on Saturday night next, also presentation of shire certificates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Gratuity. Action by Seamen. Making War Impossible
The refusal of Sir Joseph Cook, Acting Treasurer to receive a deputation from the Federal Council of the Seamen's Union on the question of the war gratuity for seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Use of Firearms. Mr. Justice Wade's Comments. Two Soldiers Sentenced
At the Control Criminal Court Mr. Justice Wade passed sentence on two returned soldiers, William Henry Blackburn and George James Cook, both of whom had been…
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