Two More Blocks Available for Soldiers
Mr. R. B. Nott, M.L.A. for Liverpool Plains, forwards the following letter from Mr. W. Sheahan, Minister for Lands,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1948
696 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 35
Objects of the Soldiers’ League
In a broadcast explanatory of the “Stand Easy” session, Mr. J. Fleming said the aim was to explain the objects of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"No War" Says Tito
"There will be no war, because the people do not want war." according to the Yugoslav Premier, Marshal Tito…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia to Mass Produce War Material
Jet planes and guided missiles and explosives, developed in Britain, arc to be mass produced in Australia, according to Chapman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Swimming Baths to Become War Memorial Enthusiastic Meeting Appoints Committee Public Subscription Opened
DESPITE THE HEAVY STORM LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, ANOTHER WELL ATTENDED MEETING REPRESENTATIVE OF EVERY SECTION OF THE TOWN AND…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →P.P. Board Alarmed At Slowness Of Soldier Settlement
Directors of Denman-Sing-v leton Pastures Protection Board, at the monthly meeting yesterday, expressed alarm…
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Mr. C. Dolanenty. non. secretary of the Muswellbrook and District Closer Settlement Promotion Committee, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anzac Day at Branxton
BRANXTON: The secretary of the Branxton sub-branch ,of the Soldiers’ league Mr. Dan Cotton) advises that this year’s Anzae Day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Cross Conference the Sick and Wounded
The first big International Conference to be held by the Red Cross since 1938 will take place in Stockholm in August This 17th…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' League Doing Good Jobs. a Busy Year
Last year, the Cessnock sub-branch of the R.S.S.A. I.L.A. enrolled 82 new members, making the present…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ballot for Wallabadah Blocks for Soldier Settlement
Ballot for the blocks from the subdivision.., of Wallabadah Station for soldier settlement, would be held at Tamworth on April 8…
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COPENHAGEN (Associated Press).—A shoot near Pederstrup on the island of Lolland, Denmark, produced a total bag…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Treatment of War Cases Criticised
SYDNEY, Sat.—Continued admission of ex-servicemen patients into overcrowded mental institutions was again attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wavell Always Calm and Self-Possessed Story of Soldier and Man (From Leo Inslicht, Reuter’s Correspondent)
LONDON : On a hot Cairo morning in late June, 1941, a tired and exhausted British general was handed a telegram telling him that he had ceased to be Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East and was transferred to India…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Memorial at Morpeth
A public meeting will be held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, on Wednesday to form a War Memorial Committee to perpetuate the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Britain Wanted War Between Germany, Russia
LONDON, February 16—Before the war Britain’s basic had been to get Russia and Germany to grips, according to the third instalment of the Soviet statement in answer to the U.S. State Department’s publication of documents on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Gratuities Payment Move
Ex - Servicemen may be able to get their war gratuities — in many cases amounting to hundreds of pounds depending on length and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Repatriating Prisoners of War
ONE of the questions that must exercise the minds freedom loving people everywhere is the delay that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Threat of War Growing"
In his final report as U.S. Chief of Staff, General Dwight Eisenhower makes a blistering attack on Communism. He says that if…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Guerilla War Sapping Economic Strength of Greece
WASHINGTON, February 17.— President Truman to-day warned Congress that the guerrilla war it sapping the economic strength of Greece. He said he would request more funds for military assistance to Greece and Turkey, but did not specify the amount. Mr. Traman reported that of the…
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