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The wars & local soldiers, 1953

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Soldier settlers' Ballot For Rams

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 5 November 1953 · page 8

Applications by men on war service land settlement farms for "Willandra" gift merino rams close on Friday…

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Class-war Dying

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 November 1953 · page 1

The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said at Singleton on Tuesday that in the last three years there had been more industrial…

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Soldier Settlers Aid M.L.A. To Get Select Committee

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 November 1953 · page 1

Glaring anomalies and alleged instances of outrageous over charging by the Water Commission…

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Landholder co-operation essential in ’hopper war

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 November 1953 · page 9

Members of the Agricultural Bureau Advisory Council, which met in Sydney this week, believe that landholder co-operation is essential if plague ’hoppers, now threatening to wipe out the State’s wheat crop, are to be…

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Soldier Taken to Hospital

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 November 1953 · page 2

A soldier, who was struck by a car in High st., Wodonga, on Friday night at 8.45 o’clock, was taken to Albury Base Hospital by…

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Demand for ending of war in Indo-Chino

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 10

PARIS, Sun.: The annual congress of the Democratic Society Union of Resistance yesterday urged the Government to start…

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Second War Men Take Over at Reunion Dinner

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 2

There was a change in the general order of speakers at the annual reunion dinner of ex-servicemen held on Saturday, when men…

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State Seeks More Loan Funds for Soldier Settlers

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 2

State Minister for Lands (Mr. F. H. Hawkins) has told Mr. A. G. Enticknap, M.P, for Murrumbidgee he is urging the…

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Lower Water Fees Wanted by Soldier Settlers

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 2

A surplus of nearly £190,000 in the 1952-53 accounts of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission has forced a…

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‘Air war’ against ’hoppers in Vic

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 12 November 1953 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Wed: Victoria’s campaign against the grasshoppers was taken a stage further, when tests were…

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Landholder Co-operation Essential in 'Hopper War

The Observer · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 7

Members of the Agricultural Bureau Advisory Council, which met in Sydney last week, believe that landholder co-operation is essential if plague grasshoppers, now threatening to wipe out the Slater wheat crop, are…

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Victoria’s War Against ‘Hoppers Corowa to be vital point in fight

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday : The aerial attack against the N.S.W. grasshopper plague will be launched from four, northern points once the plague begins to move towards Victoria…

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Soviet frees British soldier “spy”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 3

MOSCOW, Fri. : Russia has agreed to release a British soldier arrested by the Soviet Army after the war and…

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Were Australian soldiers victims of Red atrocities?

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 8

CANBERRA Fri.: The Commonwealth Government is still awaiting fuller details from the American Government on allegations contained in a United States Army report of atrocities by Communists in Korea against 20…

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“Treacherous act of war”: Jews accused

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tues.: Jordan told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that the Kibya “incident” was a “treacherous…

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Vic. will lake war against ’hoppers info N.S.W.

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Victoria would attack the grasshopper plague in N.S.W. before the flying swarms could cross the border, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Stoneham) announced…

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Probe into “leak” on war service homes

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 8

PERTH, Thurs.: An investigation has been carried out in all State capitals regarding a leakage of information from the…

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Britain’s War Office gives flying saucers recognition

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Thurs.: Britain’s War Office has officially recognised the flying saucer. A War Office report says that an anti-aircraft unit in…

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Grocers to ‘war’ on cut rate prices

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 November 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday : Grocers’ associations throughout Australia may boycott manufacturers who allow their products to be sold at cut prices. Tea, butter, eggs,…

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Sad plight of Japanese war brides

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 16

SYDNEY, Fri.: A Japanese war bride who left the Women’s Hospital, Crown street, with her two-weeks-old baby…

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