Anzac Day Demonstration Honour to Whom Honour is Due. Civic Fathers Praised (To the Editor)
Sir,—Permit me to publicly express the mind of the thousands who assembled on Anzac Day towards our Municipal Council…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1930
593 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 30
Anzac Day Controversy Lively Discussion Concerning Refusal to Allow Counterdemonstration Vote of Censure Against Municipal Council
Animated discussion characterised the public meeting held in the Strand Theatre on Tuesday night for the purpose of passing a vote of censure concerning the action of the Municipal Council In refusing the "rank and file diggers" permission to hold a counterdemonstration to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railways. Vigorous Speech by Mr. Cleary. "War or Peace."
"All this outcry you hear is duo to one man, whose sentiments are not Australian, whose whole purpose in the Australian Railways Union is to strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Protest. Abolition of Preference. Government Attacked. Sydney
At a meeting of the State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League to-day, a telegram was read from the Federal president, Captain Dyatt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Will Fight. Adelaide
At a meeting of the Returned Soldiers and Bailors' League, Mr. McCann, formerly State president, made a strong attack on the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Preference Cut Out by Federal Government
Returned Soldiers of Australia will be interested in the announcement that the Federal Government has definitely abolished the principle of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Memorials
In the first few years following the close of, the Great War there was much to do in and around Sydney in connection with the settled object of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remember the Soldier
Remember the soldier, though years may assuage, The grief of a nation, and temper its rage;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Preference to Returned Soldiers Motion to Adjourn Both Houses. Denied by Prime Minister. Canberra
Former A.I.F. officers moved an adjournment of both Houses of the Federal Parliament to-day to discuss the alleged act of the Government in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Preference to Returned Soldiers Privilege Withdrawn
Action has been taken by the Federal Works Branch which means that the principle of preference to returned soldiers has been abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PREFERENCE To Returned Soldiers. Discussion in Semite
Sir William Glasgow, who introduced the question of preference to returned soldiers in the Senate, said that if was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Detonator Explodes. Man Wounded in Hip. Sydney
A series of explosions occurred in Surry Hills last night and Patrick Scroggle, 24, a labourer, received pieces of casing of a detonator in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Protest Abolition of Preference to Soldiers
The president of the Victorian district of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. G. W. Holland) on Saturday made the following statement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Day
Anzac celebrations were held locally and were well attended. A fine address was given by Rev. C. W. Gumbley, of West Maitland, assisted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Governor Returned Soldiers' Request Why It Was Turned Down. Sydney
It is reported that shortly before the appointment of Sir Phillip Game, an Governor of New South Wales, the Returned Soldiers' Association asked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Preference to Returned Soldiers
Th? announcement of the Federal Government that the practice of giving preference in employment to returned soldiers, was to be replaced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anzac Day. Observance on
A resolution favouring the observance of Anzac Day on the Sunday nearset the actual date was carried by the Auckland Manufactures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Restored. Preference to Soldiers. Government's Decision CANBERRA
It was learned this morning that there is a distinct possibility of the Federal Government Going back on its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Preference to Returned Soldiers Decision of Federal Government. Opposition Stirred
So strong is the resentment aroused by the decision of the Federal Government to abolish the principle of preference to returned soldiers in Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Echo of Anzac Day Controversy Returned Soldiers Applaud Council's Action Rev. Ayscough Also Defends Civic Fathers
Cessnock Municipal Council, which was recently censured by the "rank and file" returned soldiers for refusing to allow a counter-demonstration to the official Anzac Day ceremony, received a letter last night from the Cessnock sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' and…
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