Maoris' Welcome Duke Visits Rotorua Grotesque War Dance Wellington (N.z.)
The Duke of Gloueseter visited Rotorua yesterday and saw the most picturesque display yet given in his honour in New Zealand…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1934
1,024 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 52
Prices Firm London Stock Markets Christmas Trade "Best of Any Post-war Year" (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, December 22
Although business on the Stock Exchange has not been particularly active, there a tone of cheerfulness in all markets, and prices generally were firm…
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More than 250 hampers and £45 worth of groceries were distributed to unemployed married returned soldiers at the Returned Soldiers' League…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl Wounded Shot by Step-mother Woman Takes Poison Perth
Mrs. Burrow, 34, wife of Herbert John Burrows veterinary surgeon of Northam shot her step-daughter, Daphne, aged 20, while the latter was asleep in her room…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rumours of War Adding to Distress Pope's Vatican Address Rome, December 24
The Pope, in an address at the Vatican, said: "The varying rumours of war and armaments are adding to the distress of an already difficult period. If peace really…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chemical Bomb Presented to War Minister Sensation in Athens New York, December 25
The Athens correspondent of the "New York Times" says the War Minister (General Kondylis), after receiving a Christmas present of a potassium chlorate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Continued Christmas in S. America Gran Chaco Struggle New York, December 25
That Latin America spent Christmas in, perhaps, unusually interesting ways seemed indicated in the Yuletide news from south of the Rio Grande…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Passes for Limbless Soldiers
Rail and tram passes for incapacitated soldiers can now be collected at the Returned Soldiers' League rooms in Perkin-street, it was announced on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Thieves in Anzac-parade
The home of Mr. W. Neve, of 5 Anzac-parade, Newcastle, was entered by thieves while the occupants were absent last night, and two suits were stolen…
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Sir,—It is the expressed opinion of the Dean of Newcastle that all the different societies and organisations which were striving to serve the ideal of peace should…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tragedy on River One Dead, One Wounded Exploding Gun Melbourne
But for the prompt action of Ben Buckland, licensee of the Genoa Hotel, the shotgun tragedy on the Genoa River yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain's High-speed War 'Planes
The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon) revealed in the House of Commons lost week that the latest type of aeroplane to be supplied to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Passes for Returned Men
Tram and train passes for returned soldiers entitled to them are now available for the ensuing year at the Newcastle sub-branch of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →What People Think Divorce Statistics—Defence Of Gaelic—Causes Of War. Divorce
My opinion as to the reason of so many divorces is, in a nutshell, first, the modern age in which we are living—smoking cigarettes, spots…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New War 'Planes Undergoing Tests in Britain Can Speed at 300 M.P.H. LONDON, December 28
The "Daily Express" says that two fighting aeroplanes, capable of a speed of 300 miles an hour, are now being tested for the Royal Air Force It is hoped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London Letter War Horrors in London—"L.G.'s" Striking Warning—National "Peace Ballot" Attacked—King Opens the Perfect Building—Wonderland in the Heart of London LONDON, November 15
For months, the spectre of the next war has been just round the corner. Warnings have been poured out from the Press and platform until millions of Britons have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Shot Dead Accident with Shotgun Girl Severely Wounded Melbourne
Keith Guy, 13, of Caulfield, was accidentally shot dead by his brother, Walter, 15, yesterday afternoon. The youths were spending a holiday with relatives at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Turks Pay Up Pre-war Debts London
The Turkish Government has completed punctual payment of a sum to liquidate pre-war private claims of British subjects and companies…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Decisive Battle Proceeds South American War Issue Vancouver
A terrific battle, which has been waged for two days between the forces of Paraguay and Bolivia, is expected to finish the Gran Chaco…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mrs. Deakin Dead Great Statesman's Widow War Work Recalled Melbourne
The death occurred to-day, at her seaside home at Point Lonsdale, of Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Anne Deakin, widow of Mr. Alfred Deakin, a former Prime…
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