War Work Causes Anomaly Overtime for Federal Technicians CANBERRA
Wartime pressure of work has caused an anomaly regarding overtime in the technical branches of the Federal Works Department. The Minister for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 243
Britain Restricting Imports Allied Production of War Materials LONDON, January 18
The British Minister for Supply (Dr. Burgin) said to-day, after talks in London with the French Minister for Arms, that the two countries were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War May Reach South Africa Home Defences First CAPETOWN, January 18
Explaining why South Africans should not be allowed to go overseas to serve with the British forces, the Minister for Mines (Colonel Stallard) said that in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mock Trial and Sideshows Varied Entertainment for War Fund Street Day
A mock trial, in which citizens will be "hailed before the beak," and fined for various offence, boxing and wrestling exhibitions, band entertainments, a variety…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Brain Trust at Work in Britain Scientists Aid in War London
Bent over miscroscope faucets in laboratories, large and small, throughout the Empire, there is a "Brain Trust" behind to-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Cabinet Approves Spend £500,000 on Gund--Munitions Big Supply for Great Britain Melbourne
Approval was given by the War Cabinet at its meeting this week to the capital expenditure of £500,000 to expand local resources…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War Planes From United States Allied Orders to be Trebled President Confers with Advisers (Australian Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, January 18
Proposals by Great Britain and France to triple their present orders for American-made war planes were the subject of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Women Will Give News Of Soldiers
Two Sydney women, Mrs. A. S. Allen, wife of Brigadier Allen of the 16th Brigade of the Second A.I.F., and Mrs. George L'Estrange Gee, whose husband…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surf Carnival As Farewell Soldiers May Compete Newcastle Club Decision
The committee of the Newcastle Surf Club has decided to make its annual carnival, to be held on February 3, a farewell to members of the Second A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldiers Killed by Secret Device London
Three men were killed and one seriously injured in an accident involving special equipment, the details of which are secret…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bitter Weather on Fighting Front Soldiers Shiver in Trenches Nazis Send Up Only Plane London
Europe, praying for relief from the bitter winter, had new miseries to-day when soldiers on the Western Front and Parisians shivered…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland and District Employ Returned Men Show Society Asked
A deputation comprised of Messrs. E. C. Scarlett, T. B. Scobie, W. Cook and D. Cunningham, waited upon the Secretary of the Hunter River Agricultural and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Women and War
Neatly uniformed and looking very efficient, member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Transport section, unload & lorry in England. Sweden prepares Swedish woman are being taught air raid precautions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Masefield's War Poem
Mr. Masefield, the Poet Laureate, has published with Heinemanns, a poem of 24 four-line verses entitled "Some Verses to Some Germans," arising out of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Loan Boom Ottawa
The war loan of 200,000,000 dollars (£57,000,000 Aust.) has been over-subscribed by 25 per cent. It is likely that the final allotment will place 50 per…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War 25 Years Ago
A ZEPPELIN dropped bombs near Sandringham, the country estate of the King. His Majesty had left on the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Loan Over-subscribed Ottawa, January 19
The war loan of 200,000,000 dollars (£57,000,000 Australian) has been over-subscribed by 25 per cent. It is likely that the final allotment will place 50 per…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stop-the-war [?] South Africa Cape Town [?]
With [?] galleries the House of Assembly to-day debate an Opposition "end-the. war" motion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Causes Rise in Employment Canberra
Wartime activities have caused a rise in employment among trade unionists, according to statistics released to-day. In the December quarter of 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sydney War Gifts Reach London LONDON, January 19
The Women's War Committee of the Royal Empire Society reports that the first consignment of gifts has arrived from the Sydney branch…
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