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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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Walcha War Service Settlers Protest Against High Rates

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 8

Walcha District War Service Land Settlers’ Association has protested at high rates charged by Apsley Shire…

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16 Farms on Inverell Station Available for Soldier Settlement

The Inverell Times · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: Sixteen farms on inverel[?] Station have been made available to members [?] ex-members of the Forces under the War Service Land Settlement Scheme, the Minister for Lands,…

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Dumaresq Honour Roll Unveiled At Ceremony On Saturday Tribute to Men Who Served

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 9

An honour roll bearing tile names of men and women who volunteered in the recent war…

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£750 Millions For War Damage

The Inverell Times · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON: Progress in making good war damage in Britain is reflected in figures which have just been published. These reveal that in 1948 more than half a million payments, amounting in all to…

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U.K. War Industries Likely Transfer To Australia CANBERRA

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1949 · page 2

Some United Kingdom war industries may be transferred to Australia the Minister for Post-War Reconstruction (Mr…

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War Pensions Payments

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA : The 424,000 ex-Service pensions now in force had cost the Commonwealth Government just over' £20,000,000…

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Britain's War Disabled More Training Centres

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 11

London: In the last eight years, the United Kingdom Ministry of Pensions has provided,…

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War Damage Compensation Cost Britain £750 Million

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 10

London: Progress in making good war damage in Britain is reflected in figures which have…

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Italy Offered War Prize Unsuitable For Australian Trade

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 16

The Federal Government will offer the war prize ship Reynella, to the Italian Government for £1,875,000…

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Post-war Boom on Wane Position Under Close Watch

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 12

Reuters correspondent in Washington says that United States rearmament and European and other foreign aid…

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Australian Defence Project Causes Speculation In Britain Future Of War Industries LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

The Australian announcement that a new £148 million sterling defence project is to be put…

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Poignant Extracts From an Inverell Soldier’s Diary

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 6

Amongst the many thousands of men who will remember February 15, 1942, long after it has slipped from the short public memory, is Mr. George Randall…

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War Damage Compensation Cost Britain £750 Million

The Uralla Times · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 8

London: Progress in making good war damage in Britain is reflected in figures which have…

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Italy Offered War Prize Unsuitable For Australian Trade

The Uralla Times · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 8

The Federal Government will offer the war prize ship Reynella, to the Italian Government for £1,875,000…

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Post-war Boom on Wane Position Under Close Watch

Guyra Argus · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 3

'Reuters correspondent in Washington says that United States rearmament and European and other foreign aid…

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As I Was Saying I Was A Soldier

Guyra Argus · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 4

As I was saying last week I thought it would be nice-to do a bit of soldiering. Nooday told me there was a war on at…

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District War Memorial Important Meeting To-night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 16

Important business is on the agenda for the annual meeting of the City of Armidale and Dumaresq Shire…

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German Scientific Research Brought To Standstill By War

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 7

War and its aftereffects s have almost obliterated German natural science, Dr. Max…

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Warialda Estates for Soldiers

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 2

Glenalvon and Oregon Estates, situated in the Land District of Warialda Land Board District of Moree, Shire of…

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Govt. Cannot Finance War on Rabbits

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 4

The destruction of rabbits is a matter for the landholders, and if they require assistance their request should be addressed to the State Government. Advice to this effect has been received by Mr. W. J…

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