War Service Land Settlement
N.S.W. Cabinet has decided to spend £199,705 on the resumption of five properties for war service land…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1954
354 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 18
Kurri Rugby Team's War Cry Considered as Essential as a Jersey
Football teams in the early days thought it just as essential to have a war-cry as to have a jersey and boots, and the Kurri team was no exception. The old Kurri rugby team war-cry was something like this:-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Indian Inquiry On War Film
NEW DELHI: India has asked her High Commissioner in London for a report on the film “The Purple Plain”,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers' Point Lands
The Port Stephens Shire Council has for some time been negotiating with the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Advance For War Service Settlement
CANBERRA: The Commonwealth Government has offered to advance £1 for every £2 spent by N.S.W. and Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Injured
When the motor-cycle they were riding struck a horse on the military camp road last night, two privates from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Soldiers in Tram
MOSCOW: The Soviet Army newspaper “Red Star” says that a soldier on a tram who falls to offer an officer his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →36,000 Acres for Soldier Settlement
Nearly 36,000 acres of land for soldier settlement ballots will be taken over shortly from five country properties by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →36,0000 Acres for Ballot Five Properties For Soldier Settlement
Nearly 36,000 acres of land for soldier settlement ballots will be taken over shortly from five country properties…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War On Cancer
A WORLD authority on cancer, here to lecture on the subject for a brief period, has told of the great work being done in the study of this dread scourge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader The War On Cancer Reds Want Occupation of Germany to End Seeks West Agreement To Troops Withdrawal
BERLIN: Soviet Russia wants Britain, France and the united States to join with her in immediately concluding an agreement for the withdrawal of the Big Four occupation troops from East and West Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Hero Died ln Street
LONDON: Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill, the “man who won the Battle of the Flying Bombs” in World War II.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Game “Two Degrees Safer Than War” Is To Be Played Here At Week-end
An ancient Irish some which has been described as “only two degrees safer than war” will be played in Maitland at the week-end. The game is hurling—the sport of ancient Irish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers That Never Die Nor Even Fade Away
So pathetic is the memory of favourite lead soldiers and farmyard animals with accidentally broken limbs that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tug O' War Champions
C. Kingdom's team are now the tug o' war champions of the Upper Hunter. To gain the title they defeated the Cycle Club…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Court Bid to Free Soldier
RELEASE OF A FORMER AUSTRALIAN MEMBER OF THE COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN KOREA FROM PRISON WAS SOUGHT BY APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IN…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reds “Do Not Want War”
LONDON: The Russian Government did not want war, and would be “careful not to get into a situation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Wound Was Cause Of Death
SYDNEY: A Snowy River worker, Maleus Hribar, first thought to have been poisoned, is now believed by detectives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcome Home for Bishop Batty
The Bishop of Newcastle (the Right Rev. de Witt Batty) returned to Australia yesterday after a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Shot Dead In Room
SYDNEY: Walter Sydney Perrin, 18, a permanent soldier attached to the School of Mechanical Engineering at…
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