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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1944

622 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 20 of 32

Land for Ret. Soldiers Rural Reconstruction Committee's Report Details of the Scheme

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 21 July 1944 · page 1

It may cost £160,000,000 to put 50,000 returned holdiers bock on the land, says the Rural Reconstruction report. This report,…

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Municipality of Condobolin Anzac House Appeal

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 3

By request I hereby convene a Public Meeting for Tuesday, 1st August, 1944, at 7,391 p.m., at the Council Chambers, for the purpose of…

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Anzac House Police To Raise £25,000 Monster Art Union

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 3

A State-wide appeal has been launched to raise £150,000 to build ''Anzac House" a building which will be both a memorial to…

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Post-war Farming Rural Problems Discussed

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 1

Among the foremost tasks of the post-war period in Australia will be the solution of the problems of the primary producers…

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The Bran and Pollard Supply Position (Reprint from "Food Front," News Bulletin of War Agricultural Committees of Australia)

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 4

Following the loss of overseas markets for Australian flour owing to war developments flour milling activities in the…

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"Thoroughly Disgusted" Block of Land Won by Soldier Rejected

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 4

An ex-soldier who had won a ballot for a block of land on the new soldiers' settlement, which the State Government is opening in the Kyogle…

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Best Sellers for Soldiers U.S.A. Distribute 20,000,000 Copies

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 24 July 1944 · page 1

American publishers, by arrangement with the United States services, are distributing special editions of the world's best…

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Welcome Home to Lac Frank Coughlan

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 2

LAC Frank Coughlan was home at West Wyalong on leave after 18 months in a Northern Station. On Sunday night the members of…

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War Facts in Brief

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 1

Under reciprocal lend-lease, Australia and New Zealand are now supplying 95 per cent, of all food needed for United States troops in…

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Settling the Soldiers on the Land

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 2

Reports submitted to State and federal authorities indicate that post-war soldier settlement on this occasion is to be…

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Anzac House Appeal

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 28 July 1944 · page 2

Forbes police propose to carry out a sale of buttons on Saturday, August 19--Referendum Day--in aid of their effort to raise funds for Anzac House…

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Marshal Rommel Reported Wounded—dead

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 2

There have been persistent rumors lately that Rommel has been wounded. An American correspondent ut General Eisenhower's…

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Municipality of Condobolin Anzac House Appeal

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 3

By request I hereby convene a Public Meeting for Tuesday, 1st August, 1944, at 7.30 p.m., at the Council Chambers for the purpose of…

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War Facts in Brief

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 2

Since the outbreak of the war, 225 ships in the Australian Commonwealth Naval Construction program have been laid down, completed and…

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Grenfell & District Patriotic & War Fund

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 4

The usual monthly meeting of the above was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday night. Present:—Messrs. B. Livingstone…

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War News Backbone of German Resistance Broken. 10,000. Prisoners Taken. London

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 2

British tanks and infantry are surging south and are over four miles below Gaumont. The momentum of the advance did not…

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West Milby Poor Seasonal Prospects Soldiers Entertained

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 4

The district is very badly in need of rain and the crops are withering. Grass is not growing and unless substantial falls of rain [?]cme within a…

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West Milby News Soldiers Farewelled

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 4

There was only a compartively small attendance at the Milby Hall a few nights ago to bid God speed to Corporal Stewart Harley, of the Air…

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War News LONDON

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 2

The German front line in some sectors in Normandy is stated to be cracking. The operation south from Caumont is a major success…

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Anzac House Big Appeal To Be Launched Public Meeting

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 2

The Mayor, Ald. H. F. May, presided at the Public Meeting held in the Civic Chambers last Tuesday night to make…

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