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The wars & local soldiers, 1934

1,024 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 52

COST £200,000,000 Repatriation of Soldiers Pensions Cost £114,557,582 SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1934 · page 8

According to the annual report of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League, which is to be presented at the congress in Brisbane next month, more than…

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War Pension Approved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1934 · page 6

The service of Returned Soldiers' League to returned men was again demonstrated, when the Newcastle branch received a telegram from the War Pensions…

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Recipes for Peace Address by Mrs. C. Starfield "Thrill of War Trappings"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1934 · page 11

The monthly meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Women's International League for Pence and Freedom was held yesterday afternoon in the committee room…

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War Service Homes Aid for Necessitous Owners Provision in Budget Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1934 · page 7

Discussing Budget preparations to-night, the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) said that it was almost certain that the Budget would be submitted to the House…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1934 · page 6

The officials of Newcastle Returned Soldiers' League are busy preparing for the A.I.F. ball and annual dinner, and making preliminary arrangement for the visit of…

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Church of England Attitude in Event of War LONDON, July 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1934 · page 12

The Archbishop of Canterbury (Most Rev. Dr. C. G. Lang), questioned at the Diocesan Conference on the attitude of the Church in the event of war, replied that…

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Life Pensions Soldier T.B. Sufferers Minister Announces Further Legislation Pending CANBERRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1934 · page 11

Announcing the honouring of the promise given by the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) that legislation would be introduced to include in the Australian…

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Anti-war Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 10

The President of the Newcastle Labour Council (Mr. R. Sainsbury) and Mr. T. Breen (Australian Workers' Union) will represent the Council at the anti-war…

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SIR K. Smith's 'Plane On Board Mariposa Has Been Named "Anzac" Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 9

Sir Charles Kingford Smith's Lockhood-Altair monoplane was taken aboard the Mariposa at Auckland to-day, and was safely stowed on the dock tennis court,…

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Protest Against War Measures Conference Held at Trades Hall

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 2

At the conference held this morning for the purpose of opposing war preparations, several women and Communists…

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Sydney's Film War Contracts Suggest End Newcastle in Releases Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 10

It was announced to-day that the Managing Director of General Theatres Corporation (Mr. Charles Munro) that the corporation had signed a contract to take…

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Returned Soldiers' League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 11

A meeting of returned soldiers will be held in the Toronto School of Arts on Wednesday night, to form a branch of the Returned Soldiers' League. Mr. Shaw, Secretary of the…

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Returned Soldiers Decoration Pensions Due Procedure Explained Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 10

The Returned Soldiers' League, which has received many requests from all parts of Australia as to eligibility for decoration pensions, states that holders of the…

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Anti-war Conference Defence Vote Criticised Protest to Government

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 July 1934 · page 2

Representatives from the Miners' Federation, Boilermakers, Ironworkers, Newcastle A.W.U., Ship Painters, and Dockers and Moulders' Unions, Friends of the…

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Woman Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1934 · page 3

Details of the wounding of a woman at the corner of Darby and King Streets, Newcastle, on the night of July 4, were related in the case in which Augustus…

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War Pension Appeals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1934 · page 4

The Minister for Representation (Mr. C. W. C. Marr) had made available figures relating to the War Pension Appeal Tribunals up to June 30, 1934. From the…

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Abermain Returned Men Entertain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 July 1934 · page 9

Under the auspices of the Abermain sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, a social gathering was held in the Drill Hall, Abermain, on Saturday…

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Prohibited Import Sir K. Smith's 'Plane Name "Anzac" Removed Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 7

The Lockheed Altair monoplane, which Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is to pilot in the Centenary air race, was not in the air to-day, nor will it, be lawful for Sir…

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Wallsend Entertainment for Soldiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 2

A benefit entertainment was given in the Empire Theatre on Tuesday night by the Regimontal Rovers Revue Company in and of Wallsend sub-branch of the…

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Pensions for Wives of Limbless Soldiers Canberra

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 13

Full restoration of the pensions of wives of limbless returned soldiers was promised by the Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Marr), replying to…

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