Farms for Soldiers Sydney
The Minister for Lands has purchased two farms at Milthorpe for returned soldiers. One farm is of 383 acres; the other of 491 acres. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1919
1,902 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 96
A Class War
The world is up against a class war. We serve little purpose in giving things fancy names. Deep down Bolshevism is simply Socialism. Right through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Long-kept Secret Historic Midnight "We Are at War!"
"How, at midnight on August 4, 1914, the Empire was informed that we were at war is a dramatic story which has now been revealed by Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dispute at Goninan's 12 Turners Leave Employment of a Soldier
Twelve turners left the works of A. Gon[?]an and Co. shortly after starting time this morning. One remained. He had not [?]entined himself…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Here and There The Soldiers' Spirit
Sydney, Wednesday.—In calling for tenders for a lease of a stall on the Manly wharf the Manly Council stipulated that tenderers must be returned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Home Day
A meeting of the Newcastle District Welcome Home Committee was held at the Council Chambers last evening. Alderman Kilgour, the Mayor of Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →After-the-war Motor Cars
For some time a favourite topic for speculation by the British automobile papers has been the kind of car that will be turned out after the war is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Factories. Use in Peace
Some 5000 British factories have been engaged on munitions. The problem of "turning them round" to peace conditions and keeping as many of them as possible…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War on Bolsheviks Neutral Action Registration Compulsory LONDON. Wednesday Night
Neutral Governments, especially Switzerland and Sweden, are taking rigorous action against the Bolsheviks. The municipal authorities in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Sydney Letter. Man the Ships.—why Not Arbitrate?—an Alarming Letter.—the Returned Soldiers.—this Fearful Dry Spell.—"the Industrial Workers' Union."—something New in Commercial Life.—"bush Week." Sydney
The shipping deadlock continues, and many are the judges of the merits of it. Reduced to a nutshell, the men's case is put by them, or might be, in the form…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers' Employment. Dispute at Goninan's Works. Turners Cease Work
A peculiar position arose yesterday at Messrs. A. Goninan and Company's engineering works at Wickham, when 12 turners notified the management that they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Welcome Plans for February 1
The enthusiasm manifested at the meeting of the Newcastle Soldiers' Welcome Home Committee last night, with an attendance representing over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Chest Greetings
Mr. C. Le M. Walker, hon. secretary of the New South Wales Division of the Australian Comforts Fund, has addressed the following letter to Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Savings Certificates
It is good news that the issue of War Savings Certificates is to be continued for the present, and that it is the settled policy of the Government to have some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vienna After the War. Widespread Changes
I have now spent forty-eight hours in Vienna and seen it with all its novel aspects, and I find that four years of war have changed it far more than has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Finance British War Bonds Record Subscriptions LONDON, Thursday Night
The Treasury announces that on January 13 the total subscriptions to the National War Bonds since their inauguration on October 1, 1917…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Missing Soldier
The parents of Private Fred, A. Doubleday (No. 5801), 17th Battalion, A.I.F., who was missing at Passchendaele, October 10th, 1917, will be glad to bear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Address Soldiers Lieut. Moss's Mission SYDNEY
Mr. F. Sykes, secretary of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Ship and Wharflaborers Union, stated to-day that Lieut. G. H. Moss will leave to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Explosion Soldiers Killed London, Thursday Night
A message from Brussels states that a petrol waggon at the railway station at Ath exploded. Six British soldiers were burned to death and 50…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shall the Soldier Suffer?
Particular interest attached to the dispute at Goninan's by reason of the fact that it raised the question whether unionists who fought will be made to suffer by the attitude of their working comrades. While many men are complaining that work is not found for their members who have…
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