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The wars & local soldiers, 1920

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Communal Farms for Returned Soldiers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 32

Under its scheme for establishing communal farms for tubercular returned soldiers, the Repatriation Department has acquired land on the Murrumbidgee…

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The-Blinded Soldiers' Enterprise

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 3

Inaugurated on October 20th, 1919, the N.S.W. Blinded Soldiers' Tea Company Ltd. has already achieved the prime objects of its…

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Preference to Soldiers. Dismissals From Railway Service. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 5

The Railway and Tramway Service Association is much concerned at the action of the Railway Commissioners in putting off two employes with six and…

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Decentralisation of Soldier Settlements State to Be Subdivided. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 2

The Minister for Lands intends to submit to the Public Service Beard a scheme for remodelling and decentralising the present system of managing…

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Former Soldiers Boycotted LONDON, May 6

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 5

In replying to questions in the House of Commons in regard to the Sinn Feiners boycotting former service men in Ireland, who consequently were unemployed…

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Wodouga. Welcome Home

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 4

A welcome home was tendered to Sergt Camillus Clarke, son of Mrs Clarke, of Hume street, Wodonga, on Friday even-ing. There was a very good attendance,…

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Settlement of Soldiers. No Single Farm's Wanted. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 3

The announcement by the Minister for Lands that he will no longer permit a soldier to obtain a single farm under the Closer Settlement Act has caused,…

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Pathetic Discoverv at Ypres Bodies of 40 British Soldiers. Brussels

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 2

The bodies of 40 British soldiers have just been discovered at Ypres in a cellar in the Grande Place. The men were evi- dently overcome by, gas. and were lying…

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A Detective Wounded. London, May 8

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 2

Detective Sergt. Revell was shot at and wounded in broad daylight in one of the main thoroughfares of Dublin. His assailants fired four shots from behind and…

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Missing British Soldiers

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 2

The Brussels correspondent of "The Times" states that 40 bodies of British soldiers have been discovered in a cellar in the Grande Place in Ypres…

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Soldiers' Monument

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 2

A conference between the Coreen Shire Council and Municipal Council on the above subject, railed for yetenlay afternoon, wan cancelled owing…

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Soldier Settlers on Leaseholds No Help From War Service Homes. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 2

Soldier settlers on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas who desire to take up town blocks at Leeton or Griffith cannot obtain any assistance from the War…

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Why Australian Hotels Are Best. (Published by Arrangement). Soldier Makes Some Comparisons

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 1

Sydney Evening News (20/4/20) printed the following from the pen of George Clune, of Bondi, N.S.W., who served with both the A.I.F. and the…

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War Trophies. Shire Council Applies for Machine Guns

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 4

At the meeting of the Berrigan Shire Council on Monday last a letter was read from the H. J. M. Cha[?]ter, M. H. R , outlining the…

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Soldier Preference in Railways

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 2

The Government is to be asked to repeal certain sections of the Preference to Soldiers' Employment Act owing to objections which have been raised by the…

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Dissatisfied Railwayman Those Who Enlisted. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 2

The N.S.W. State Cabinet has decided that railway employes who enlisted should receive the monetary value of their accrued leave, which was due at…

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Fallen Soldiers Memorial Fund

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1920 · page 2

A meeting of all interested in the Jerilderie and District Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Fund was held in the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon…

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War and Post-war Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 29

"Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light," as Milton wrote and the world in postwar reconstruction is experiencing its reality. "We…

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War Gratuity

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 31

Replying in the House of Representatives to Mr. Bremian, the Minister of the Navy, said that applications for the war gratuity might be made at once. The…

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Ex-czarina Worked for Germany During War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 14

Dr. H. V. Wollison, of New York, was dentist for over thirty years to the family of the late Czar of. Russia. For the first time he has conveyed to the public his…

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