Soldier Killed in Truck Crash Near Culcairn
At about 2.30 a.m. on Monday, morning an Austin A 40 utility overturned on the Culcairn-Holbrook Road, near…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1952
576 stories in Murray's papers · page 24 of 29
Culcairn R.S.L. Appeal Soldiers' Land
Culcaira Sub-branch of the Roturned soldiers' League, at its last Monthly meeting, unanimoudy reselved that a letter should be forwarded to and State members of this area, asking that they both…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City’s war on mosquitoes
MILDURA, Fri.: The entire city of Mildura will be sprayed next week from a mobile fog insecticidal unit to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier’s ship suicide
SYDNEY, Fri.: An Australian soldier suicided from the liner Taiping on her way from Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Costly Indo China War
PARIS, Sun.: France had spent twice as much as she had received in Marshall aid on the war in Indo-Chin, declared the French…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Move for higher war pensions
PERTH, Tues.: The Federal Executive of the RSL was instructed today by the annual congress to prepare a practical plan…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Judge declares war on dangerous drivers
SYDNEY, Tues.: Judge Berne today declared war on dangerous driving motorists. The judge was hearing an appeal in Quarter Sessions Appeal Court by Cyril Arthur Swadling, of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Soldier settlers may get road
A tender of £6437 for clearing, forming, gravelling and installation of pipe culverts on the road within the No. 2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Hands-off” Anzac Day
PERTH, Wed.: “Hands off Anzac Day” was the unanimous opinion of the Federal RSL congress today on a suggestion that…
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Annual Meeting of the War Memorial Committee will be held on Thursday, 6th November 1952 at 3 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War on Fruit Flies
C.S.I.R.O. is looking for a parasite to control Queensland Fruit Fly, Australia's most serious fruit fly pest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldier Settlement
About 12,500 acres of Barraba district property, Piedmont, will be taken over for soldier settlement early in 1953…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Nurses make soldiers infantile”
CHELSEA (Mass.), Wed: Declaring that they should consider the practice of utilising only male personnel for nursing care in…
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CANBERRA, Wed.: Misgivings over the drastic contraction of the war service land settlement scheme in NSW, Victoria and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War will be waged on-mosquitoes here
A lagoon at the southern end of Kiewa street which will be treated by the City Health Department during its anti-mosquito campaign later this year. The lagoon is one of a-number of breeding grounds for mosquitoes in South Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two soldiers injured in jeep crash
Twosoldiers were injured, one seriously, when an Array jeep plunged down a 15ft embankment on the Albury-Wodonga…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Q.C. assails soldier’s “confession”
SYDNEY, Fri.: Mr. J. W. Shand, QC, said in the Court of Criminal Appeal today that parts of a confession which led…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Injured Soldiers’ Condition Good
Condition of two soldiers injured on Thursday night when a jeep crashed through the guide fence on the Albury-Wodonga rd,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Dangers” in extending air war
WASHINGTON, Sun.: To extend the air war in Korea would put the United States “in World War Three”, declares the US…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Minister denies man sent back to Korea whilst he was wounded
SYDNEY, Mon.: The Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis) today denied that Army authorities had sent any sergeant back to Korea while he was wounded. He said the Australian…
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