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The wars & local soldiers, 1940

4,041 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 203

Part Rubber Plays in the War Britain Controls 51 Per Cent

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 8

In view of the fact that rubber will play an Important part in bringing the war to a successful termination for the Allies, for,…

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Swedish Responsibility Why Finland Made Peace (Weekly War Commentary Supplied by the Commonwealth Department of Information)

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 7

The Russo-Flourish war has ended, and , while it is out yet possible to foren an accurate apparairment of the fall results of…

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Phone Wedding Soldier la England Bride in Canada From a Special Correspondent (By Air Mail) LONDON, March [?]

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 7

Sergeant Charles Chevalier, in England with the Canadian Forest, wants to marry over the trans-Atlantic telephone the girl…

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A.I.F. Despatches Nurses Share The Soldiers’ Lot Hard Drill-lectures Jerusalem, February 24

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 6

The sixty Australian nurses at present in P[?] are living under almost identical conditions as the men and “loving every minute of [?],” to quote [?] of them. With the exception of one Westralian, all here so far are natives of New South…

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Killed in Action Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 7

Mr. And Mrs. N. D. McKitlopy of Huntley’s Point, have received an air mail letter from the: daughter, Marjorie, who was recently .married in…

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Money for War Funds

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 4

Throughout Australia there is likely to be a ready response to the War Savings Certificates campaign which has been launched by the…

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Soldier’s Diary Enlisted as Private Now Lieutenant

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 8

The [?] diary of a soldier who having [?] in a [?] be now a [?] has been leased by the Department of…

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War Savings Certificate System Popular Issues Sydney, Monday

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 4

Indications this meaning were that the war savings certificate system introduced by the acting treasurer (Air, Spender) to rates…

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L.G ENGINEERS Annual Conference After the War Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 1

Speaking at the annual conference of the Local government Engineers Association the president Mr. Max Colton Sald the local government…

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Why Coalition Was Made Party Camps Not Enough to Win War

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 2

The importance of the formation of a composite Ministry from the point of view of Australia's war effort was stressed by the Prime…

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War Will Help Women Engineers 500,000 In Munition Factories (From a Special Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, March 3

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 8

The war is making a big difference to the prospects of woman engineers in Britain “Just as the last war gave the…

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Few Soldiers with T.B. MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 2

The Army medical authorities announced that X-ray examinations of 22.000 members of the Sixth Division of the A.L.F. showed that 109 or 5…

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A.I.F. Enlistments SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 1

Applications for enlistment in the 7th Division of the A.I.F. Army Corps are coming in steadily Additional…

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Road Danger To Soldiers

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. hat called the attention of the Military authorities to the danger of troops walking on the New…

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Enlistments Coming in Steadily 7th Division of A.I.F. and Army Corps. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 March 1940 · page 2

Applications for enlistment in the 7th Division of the A.I.P. and the Army Corps are coming in steadily. Initial enlistments required in New…

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Merriwa Anzac Observance Committee. Memorial Park Improvements

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 6

A meeting of the Merriwa Anza[?] Observance Committee was held on Wednesday afternoon of last week, the president (Cr. H. O. Bensley)…

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Rubber and the War

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 3

In view of the fact that rubber will play an important part in bringing the war to a successful termination for the…

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Latest War News Allied Diplomacy

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 5

Ever since the commencement of the war, in September last, the diplomatic chess board has been working overtime. With the exception of the agreement with Turkey, the Allies have been checkmated…

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Money Needed Australia’s War Effort Certificate Plan

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 6

“By its simplicity the plan for the sales of War Savings Certificates to [?] money for war purposes only appears to have…

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Prize Essay "Achievements of Australians in Great War"

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 1

In the Wallarobba Shire essay competition on the above subject, first prize went to Frederick Stace, a pupil of Brookfield Convent:…

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