Branxton Soldiers’ Auxiliary
BRANXTON Wed. —There was a good attendance at the annual meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Returned Soldiers’ League…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,498 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 125
Singleton Soldier Dies in Jap Prison Camp
Advice has just been received of the death in a Japanese prison camp of Edward Gentle (41). News of the demise of a very popular…
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Two soldiers were killed and four injured when a military lorry skidded and overturned in Heathcote Road, Holdsworthy. The soldiers fatally…
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The Rotary Club of West Maitland last night discussed with members of the Newcastle Club “Post-War…
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[?] [?] public meeting contened by the Mayor of Cessnock (Aid…
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Mrs. T. Dawson, Martins Wharf Road, Miller's Forest has received the following letter from her son L.A.C. E. T. Dawson R.A.A.F. 18 months ago we were back in Egypt further than we had ever been before, and then the hundreds of miles from Alemein to Tunis, and here at last in a land…
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LONDON Feb. 17 — A new schedule of war risk insurance rates to operate from February 17, includes a reduction for ships…
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LONDON February 17— Editors of London Provincial and Empire newspapers and newsage[?] at a meeting In London,…
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LONDON Feb. 17—“The interest of the war must be far in front of any consideration for special historical or cultural…
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NOW that General MacArthur has declared the operations in the Solomons are practically at an end, and the New Guinea campaign Hearing its close. Rabaul may he the next Japanese stronghold to fall into the hands of the Allies…
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CANBERRA Friday—The Country Party met to-day to determine whether its member would contin[?] to attend…
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The Country Party met to-day to determine whether its members would continue to attend meetings of the Advisory War Council. Differences of…
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Mrs. Graham Neilson, of Chichester, has received the following letter from Mrs. Elsie M. Salter, 26 Rawson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-war Reconstruction on Coalfields. Deplorable Lack of Interest
Owing to the lack of interest taken in the meeting convened at the Cessnock Council meeting on Wednesday…
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It is announced that American warships and planes attacked Truk, the main Japanese naval base in the Pacific, at daylight on Wednesday morning. A powerful task force of the United States Pacific…
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It is extraordinary to find so many people baffled by what is called "finance." Much of the popular confusion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →10,000 Miles of Internal Air Routes Plans for Post-war Services
Licenses to operate approximately 10,000 miles of internal ah, routes in the immediate post-war period, or as soon as suitable planes become…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rotary Club’s Move in Post-war Scheme Water Conservation Primary Need of Hunter Valley
The provision of water conservation and irrigation was predominant need in post-war development of the Hunter Valley, speakers declared at a meeting of the Rotary Club of West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merriwa and District News Merriwa Red Cross Branch. Additional £52 for Prisoners of War Fund
At the monthly meeting of the Merrlwa branch of the Bed Cross Society on Saturday afternoon in the School of Arts, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Americans Are Attacking The Japanese Naval Base at Truk. Terrific Fighting on Italian Front Berlin Gets a Record War Bombing
A late news flash this morning from Washington states that a large task force of the Americans has attacked the naval base of Turk, which has been occupied by the Japanese for the past two years. The force includes a very large…
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