War Facts in Brief
Australia's vegetable acreage goal for the present season is an increase of 137,200 acres over the area actually harvested in the 1942-43 season…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,498 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 125
Shortage of Labour When War Ends Premier's View of Early Post-war Period
Although half a million men and womeN of New South Wales who are now [?] the services or engaged in war production will have to be found…
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SYDNEY Friday,—In a discussion of port-war problems the Premier (Mr. McKell) expressed the opinion that there will be a…
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MELBOURNE Friday—The Interstate Executive of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions yesterday decided that…
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THE COMMONWEALTH is going to be faced with many problems in post-war reconstruction, and one of these will be road transport. The type of vehicle now being introduced for road transport…
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KURRI Friday.—Kurri Kurri ALP branch has decided to send a telegram to Mr. R. James, MHR, asking that he request the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Stimson War Review Allied Bombing Policy
WASHINGTON March 2—The Secretary for war, Mr Stimson, told a Press conference that the Allied military policy is to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Politics "After the War" Country Party's Realistic Policy
AS might have been expected, Country Party policy relating to the post-war readjustment period is…
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BRANXTON Thursday.— Bombardier Roy Wheeler, who has been spending leave from New Guinea with his mother and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven Months Under German Yoke Australian and British Soldiers
"For seven months, Australians and British soldiers lived under the German yoke at an illegal labour camp on a daily ration or…
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LONDON March 3—-Berlin radio quotes a Tokio report that General Stilwell has been wounded by Japanese…
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AUCKLAND (NZ) Sat.—Frequent; strikes by minorities, such as miners and wharf labourers, are a[?] soldiers and…
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LONDON March 3.—Staff-Sergeant William Thompson, of Pittsburgh, told newspaper correspondents that he was the father…
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U.S. Army stinginess set up eq[?] on the beach of Makin Atoll In the Gilbert islands of the South Pacific while the still is Still shrouded with smoke from Japanese gasoline dumps set afire by the U.S. Navy’s shelling of Makln before the troops…
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Members and intending members the West Maitland subbranch of the RS League are reminded that the March meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parcels For War Prisoners
LONDON March 5.—Since Dunkirk, the British General Post Office has despatched 20,000,000 parcels to British prisoners of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pictures From the Words at War
U.S. ARTILLERY BARRAGE ROUTES GERMANS. For 31 days, American troops, part of the Allied Fifth Army pressing the offensive against the Germans in Italy, battled to drive the enemy from this tiny town in the region north of Venafro. And for 30 of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post-war Plan for Sydney Ambitious Proposals
Ambitious proposals, involving housing, street reconstruction, new parks, and the linking up of the city and suburbs, form part…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country Politics "After the War" Country Party's Realistic Policy
AS might have been expected, Country Party policy relating to the post-war readjustment period is…
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