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The wars & local soldiers, 1931

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War on Insects

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

One of the Shell Company's fleet of vehicles with a giant Stelltox spray on the roof, announces the aret of vehicles with a giant Shelltox "Shelltox."…

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Country Leads the Way "War" on Ail Costs. Great Meetings Hearten

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 4

Everybody is talking about the country meetings organised through the Producers' Advisory Council and its country allies for the restoration…

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To Assist T.b. Sailors and Soldiers

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 6

In view of the large number of cases of acute distress amongst. T. B. sailors and soldiers in this State, the Attorney General has granted…

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Who Won The War?

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 7

In France, where they have suffered much in silence because of the extravagant we-won-the-war claims of American visitors, there is…

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Soldiers' Pensions Reductions Opposed

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

Mr. W. J. Stagg, State Secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League, in an interview, said the policy of the League was to fight tooth and nail any…

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War Bonds

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 2

An American pressman puts it thus:--"British people make it a point not to tell all they feel, but if they bought French bonds to help…

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Ex-war Minister Dies

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 8

Sir Laming Worthington Evans, M.P. for St. George's division of Westminster (Eng.), died in his sleep early on Sunday at the age…

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Returned Soldiers' League

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 4 March 1931 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Manning River sub-branch of the R.S. and S.I. League was held on Monday night. The balance sheet disclosed that the credit…

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Anzac Day

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

The Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League has decided to make the forthcoming Anzac Day celebration the occasion for the commencement,…

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Tick War. Officials Kept at Bay

Macleay Argus · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 5

A press message from Mullumbimby on Wednesday states: -- The attempted enforcement of the adjoining holdings treatment…

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Tick War Cattle Dip Blown Up. Mullumbimby

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 2

The war between a Goonengerry fanner and the Tick Control Board which had developed into a wild west moving picture drama took a more…

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Tick War

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 3

The attempted enforcement on Wednesday of last week of the adjoining holdings treatment regulation in connection with Tick Board…

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Infamous War Criminal Dies

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 8

A refugee for eleven years from Allied and German justice, a notorious German submarine officer has revealed, only by his death, his hid…

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Grim Duel. Between Merchant Ships. Sea Story of Great War

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 2

The German ships that roved the seas during the war, like old privateers, appeared to be pirates that acted upon their own initiative…

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General Elliott Passes. Soldier and Man

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 6

In the Law Courts of his State, on the battlefields of South Africa, Gallipoli, and France, and in the Parliament of the Commonwealth,…

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Local and General Rs. and S.i.l.a. and Anzac Day

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 31 March 1931 · page 1

At the R.S. and S.I.L.A. meeting on Saturday evening, the members re-cast their programme for the Anzac Day celebrations. The usual ceremony will…

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Deserter and Hero. Amazing Exploits of an Anzac

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 1

An arrest in a night resort of Paris has brought to light a strange story of the world war in which the central figure, Edward McLean, claims…

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Echo of Boer War. B.P.'s Fiduciary Notes

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 8

Lord Baden-Powell doesn't look like the Federal Treasurer, and he was somewhat startled in consequence when addressed by one whom…

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For Peace. Ludendorff Sees Chaos in War of Revenge

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 1

If there are men left in Germany who hanker for a war of revenge with France, they ought to be completely cooled off after reading…

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War Debt Payments Postponed. Britain's Gesture to the Commonwealth

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 April 1931 · page 6

The Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. H. Thomas, announced in the House of Commons on Wednesday that the Government would permit the…

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