Drastic Electricity Restrictions Extended Throughout England, Including Scotland Britain Reverts to War-time Blackout Conditions London
The Uralla Times · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 1
The Fuel Ministry has announced that domestic electricity restrictions would be extended to the rest of England, including Scotland, from to-day. Drastic cuts in street lighting, amounting almost to blackout…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Emphasis on Quality Post-War Marketing of Apples, Pears
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 18
The post-war market for apples and pears will be marked by an increasing emphasis on quality, and growers would be wise to recognise…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →War Memorial Appeal Official Opening Saturday, February 22 Final Arrangements in Hand
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 6
Final arrangements for the launching on Saturday night week of the £20,000 war memorial appeal were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Savings Certificates
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 2
Announcing that the first of the seven-year War Savings Certificates sold in March, 1940, will mature on March 1 this year, the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War to Peace Production
The Inverell Times · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 7
This photograph shows intricate plastic mouldings being produced at the Hoover works, Perivale. England. During the war this plant was moulding plastic cases for oxygen regulators and economises…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers’ League to Open Welfare Fund
The Inverell Times · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 4
Following a lengthy discussion regarding possible duplication of assistance to necessitous returned personnel by the R.S.S. & A.I.L.A. and the Repatriation Local Committee, the Inverell Sub-branch of the League, at its meeting on Friday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Veterans’ Art Union
The Inverell Times · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 4
Mr. Henry Moynihan, Northern Districts' Supervisor, for the War Veterans' Art Union, was in town to-day in connection with the next one which will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£20,000 WANTED Far War Memorial
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 8
The £20,000 appeal for the war memorial for Armidale and the shire of Dumaresq will be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Atom Bomb Used to Shorten War Saved Millions of Lives, Says Former U.S. SECRETARY
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 5
The long and carefully weighted preparations culminating in President Truman's momentous decision, on the advice of wartime Secretary for War, Mr. Henry L. Stimson, to use the atomic bomb against Japan in order to shorten…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Returned Soldier Fined on Assault Charge
The Inverell Times · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 3
Conducting his own defence, and pleading not guilty to a charge that he did unlawfully assault Con Damianakis, in the Black…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Settlement Classification Committee at Inverell
The Inverell Times · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 2
For the purpose of considering applications by servicemen and ex-servicemen for qualifying certificates under the War Service Land…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Service Land Settlement "Gragin" Estate
The Uralla Times · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 4
The Minister for Lands advises that thirty (30) blocks on "Gragin" estate were notified in the Government Gazette of 17th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local & General Armidale War Memorial
The Inverell Times · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3
The residents of Armidale and Dumaresq Shire are launching a War Memorial Appeal with an objective of £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Placing Elderly War Veterans Canada Solves Problem
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 5
Nearly a year ago the Canadian Veterans Affairs Department was faced with the problem of finding work for 12,000 veterans of two wars who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Radio Launching War Memorial To-morrow Night at 8.30
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 8
To-morrow night, from Station 2AD, the district's appeal for £20,000 will be officially launched by the Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Committee to Seek Club Rooms For Returned Men
Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 4
A committee to negotiate for club rooms was last night appointed by the Glen Innes sub-branch of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Asked to Help at Diggers' Inn
Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 4
An appeal to members to assist in running The Diggers' Inn was made last night at the Glen Innes sub-branch…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"All Out War" Started in China, says Communist Leader YENAN
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 1
"All out war has started," said General Chu Teh, Commander in Chief of Communist armies in China and Manchuria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£1200 Donated in Two Hours Auspicious Start to War Memorial Library Broadcast Opening Launches £20,000 APPEAL
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 8
The things we possess are, in a sensem not our own. They have been bought with a great price, the blood and suffering of gallant young men who gave themselves, a living rampart, against those who sought to break through…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fight to Save Soldier's Life
The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 11
Supply of radio active phosphorous crystals, which may save the life of a soldier in the 113th AGH, Concord, arrived in Sydney…
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