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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 243
Proposals for enlarging the field of taxation to provide additional revenue for Australia's war effort are being investigated by the Commonwealth Taxation…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE PRIME MINISTER (Mr. R. G. Menzies) has received a letter from the Australian High Commissioner in London (Mr. S. M. Bruce) enclosing verse…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Footwear requirements of the Defence Forces from November last to the end of june are estimated at half a million pairs,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lieutenant-Colonel Walter A. J. O'Meara recently died at Guildford, England, aged 76, after a noteworthy career both in the Army and in civil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →After successful treatment to offset the effect of wounds received in the last war. Captain Francis Voelcker, M.C. of Kerikerl. has enlisted…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The astounding speech delivered by General Hertzog in the South African Parliament contains so many false inferences that it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE GERMANS have heavily bombed the district north of Mallebeke. Heavy fighting is in progress…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A marnage boom due to the war is revealed in returns for the third quarter of 1939. The total weddings increased 31 per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for War (Mr. Oliver Stanley) stated in the House of Commons that kilts were not being issued to Scottish regiments in the war…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An "all-in'' conference to discuss war aims will be sought by the International Peace Council. At a meeting at the Hamilton Council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newcastle Victoria League has been asked by the naval and military authorities to establish sewing parties to undertake the mending of clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Questioned in the House of Commons about the recent visit to the Maginot Line of the schoolboy son of General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wartime restriction of the United Kingdom's export trade will probably result in an expansion of Australia's export markets in the East…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheeler-place will be transformed into a close square of stalls, sideshows, chocolate wheels and amusement booths,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"South Africa will see this matter through. It would be fatal to leave the allies in the midst of their struggle," declared the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The fifth British destroyer sunk since the war began, the flotilla leader Exmouth, was lost either by a mine or a torpedo off the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Plans to raise funds were adopted at a meeting of the Hamilton Soldiers' Sendoff and Welcome Committee. Mr. C. Brede presided…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The inquest into the fatal accident at the Toll Bar, on the New England Highway near Rutherford, on December 23, when an Army service truck overturned,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The N.S.W. Government has decided to make up the difference between the military pay and the existing salaries of all…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Exposing a campaign that would shame barbarians, the New York "Times" sums up with these words, the Nazi conquest of Poland: "It seems…
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