Hume Weir Capacity Increase Post-war Work to Cost £1,150,000
Proposals to increase the capacity of the Hume Reservoir and the Lake Victoria inlet channel at an estimated cost of £1,150,000 as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murray · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,172 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 109
Young Returned Soldier
Surely our youngest returned soldier! William Francis Gray, Armidale, has had 19 months' service in the A.I.F.—nine of them fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Curtin In Bitter Mood Hot Attack on Strikers Says All Soldiers Are Fighting Canberra
Attacking striking miners and transport workers today the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said the Government would enforce the law…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War News
"The Riverine Grazier" is a subscriber to the Australian Associated Press which provides the overseas news in this issue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoners of War
With so many thousands of Australians in enemy hands, the efforts being made to improve their lot are the concern of all those still enjoying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waste and the War
Waste paper and cardboard go to war-these days. Repulped and reprocessed, it can be made into a host of articles necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tabbita Local War Agricultural Committee
On Monday night of last week a meeting to complete the formation of a Local War Agricultural Committee was held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay and District Patriotic and War Fund Executive Meeting
The executive met on Thursday, there being present: Messrs. Flood (chairman), Matthews, Williams and Bayliss, and Mesdames Tyson and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Economic War Against Germany “Her Position Most Serious” LONDON, January 26
Germany is facing a rising scale of military operations with a declining productive capacity. This is a result of four years of blockade and bombing,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Deny Axis Ocean Shipping” For Period of Years After War WASHINGTON, Jan. 26
Rear-Admiral Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, testifying before the Appropriations Committee, said the Axis Powers should not be permitted overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest War News Russo-polish Relations U.S. Offer Refused Washington, Thurs--AAP
The Secretary of State (Mr. Hull) announced that Russia had rejected a United States offer to employ its good offices to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Patriotic and War Fund Committee Committees Appointed to Raise Funds for A.c.f
A combined public and Patriotic War Fund Committee meeting was held in the Council Chambers, when there were present: Messrs. J. D…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Post-war Housing Government's Plans Outlined 19,700 Homes for N.S.W CANBERRA
Estimated post of homes under the big housing plan proposed by the [?] Commonwealth Government for immediate post-war years is £850 to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post-War PublicWorks £200 Million T o Be Spent First Two Yews CANBERRA, Thursday
The States are to prepare immediately plans for a £200,000,000 programme of post-war public works recommended to the National Works Council by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters of Thanks for Xmas Hampers Further Batch From Soldiers in New Guinea
A further batch of letters from solthers "in" the forward areas in New Guinea has-been received by the Secretary of the Henty and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Corowa Returned Soldiers Annual Meeting Held Soldiers' Club Suggested
The annual meeting of member, of the Corowa sub-branch of the R.S.S. A.I.L.A. was held at the Hotel Australia on Wednesday evening last,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Disgraceful Conditions” at Soldiers’ Settlement CASINO
Following an inspection of Dyraba soldiers’ settlement yesterday, the Lands Minister (Mr Tully) today described conditions under which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier’s Death Was Accidental Finding At Inquest Was Swept From Bus Footboard Near Wodonga
A finding of death from injuries accidentally received was [?] by the Coroner, Mr R. M. Stewart, at Albury yesterday at the conclusion of an inquest upon the death of Lionel Edward [?], aged 21, [?], Melbourne, early on the morning of December 30 after he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seamen's Meat Allowance 6 Lb. a Week More Than Soldiers
Coastal and interstate shipping companies in Sydney were alvised last week by the Rationing Commission that they may order meat for seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Killed by Train
A soldier’s body completely cut in two was found on the main southern railway line three miles south of Wagga at 8 o’clock yesterday morning,…
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