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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 60
The conference of the Returned Soldiers' League, which was opened to-day by the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark), has an agenda containing 248 motions…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →While a petrol price war is in full blast, Brisbane looks like having another little war on its hands in the very near future. This time the milk bars appear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Because, it believes that "the time is not opportune" the New South Wales district of the Returned Soldiers' League will not invite the Duke of Windsor to lead…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eighteen years after its establishment for the purpose of considering war-time inventors' claims, the seventh and final report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rates of insurance against war risks on cargoes in the Mediterranean have been reduced and are now 5/per cent., instead of 7/6 for all vessels excepting…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Had we told Germany two years ago that Mandates were not a question for discussion we should have heard little…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A motion that representations be made to the Federal Government that the service pension in regard to age be granted at 55 yars for ex-servicemen was carried…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The hall being erected for the Kurri Returned Soldiers will be finished for the annual reunion on December 4. The official opening will take place…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forty officers and men of a regiment quartered in Vienna have been arrested on a charge of enraging in Nazi activities. Six commissioned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nine million tons of smoke pollute the air of Great Britain every year; eighty tons of soot fall upon London every hour. Corrosion of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Women social workers, educationists, and the wives of ministers and politicians sent a telegram to Signora Mussolini asking her to use her influence to wind up…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Dutch steamer Tjikembang reached Newcastle yesterday from the East on its first voyage to Australia. The vessel is in command of Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Manchester Guardian" was given permission to quote extracts from a letter describing the effects of bombing in Shanghai. The writer was a young…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"The increasing pressure which will result from the adoption of the non-intervention plan may force General France to hasten his offensive in an effort to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Men who served with the Imperial or Allied forces in the Great War could not be regarded as returned soldiers or sailors within the meaning of the Returned…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An appeal for better conditions for returned soldiers and sailors in the railway and tramway services was made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the 'forties the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company had the monopoly of the Hunter River trade, writes Alderman W. J. Goold, but several steamship owners attempted to cut into the rich profits the company Was making. A freight and passenger rates "war" followed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Secret Germano-Japanese negotiations are reported to be progressing for the delivery of substantial supplies of German aircraft and other war material to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although "They gave Him a gun," which began at the Civic Theatre on Saturday, can be classified as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The coming Christmas will be Britain's most prosperous since the war. It is expected that £100,000,000 will be spent…
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