Funds Urgently Needed Victoria League's Buffet for Soldiers Ultimate Object Is Hostel
Funds are urgently needed to carry on the soldiers' buffet being conducted by the Newcastle branch of the Victoria League…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
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Lower Rental for Soldiers Government-owned Houses Cabinet to Consider Canberra
The Minister for the Interior (Senator H. S. Foll) intends to place before Cabinet the question of reducing the rental of Government-owned houses during the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Soldiers' Hostel
Newcastle needs a hostel for soldiers. That has been made evident by the inability of a considerable number of Second A.I.F. men to find, or to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Donations to Soldiers' Service Bureau
The President of the Women's Voluntary Services (Mrs. A. C. Arnold) acknowledges donations from the following people for the Soldiers' Service Bureau—…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Accommodation Found for 2nd A.I.F. Men Mayor and Defence Department Quarters for 300 SOLDIERS
Soldiers from the 2nd. A.I.F. camps in the north who come to Newcastle at the week-end on leave will not have to sleep on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cars Wanted for Soldiers' Sunday Drive
The Victoria League decided to-day to organise a car drive on Sunday for the men of the 2nd A.I.F., who will spend their leave in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sending Socks to Soldiers
Members of the Victoria League had a busy time this morning packing socks to be sent to the 2nd A.I.F. In the group are Miss Dora Sparke (president), Mrs. Farquher and Mrs. R. B. Steere…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War News Flashes
The British Government has requisitioned the shipping of the Empire and will control it by a unified system…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finnish War Leader
THE fact that Finland already had as many as 140,000 men under arms at the first threat from the Soviet was due to her "grand old…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The War 25 Years Ago
THE Russians have been successful against the Germans, inflicting severe losses. Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Advice to War Workers From Veteran
An outstanding organiser of patriotic efforts in the last war, Mrs. S. A. Trim, O.B.E., offered some pointers to war workers this afternoon at a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nurses Have Important Part in War
SOME REVOLUTIONARY changes have taken place in the status of women since the last war. Because of this it is almost impossible to estimate how great a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War-time London Grows More Intriguing
The London of war-time is the subject of a vivid article by Mr. Beverley Baxter, M.P., which will appear in the "Newcastle Morning Herald"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Fund Now £44,000 SYDNEY
The Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund stands at £44,314. A final appeal was made to-day to persons who have comforts for the Second A.I.F. to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australians in Sea War Dramas London
Shipping company reports to-day told of the adventure of Donald Finley Paton, 17, of Fremantle, and the tragedy of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Risk Rates Cause Dispute London, January 4
The War-risk Rating Committee of the Institute of London Underwriters has resigned en bloc owing to the lack of market support for the current schedule,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Early Post-war Planning Economic Cabinet Begins CANBERRA
The first steps in post-war economic planning will be taken by the Federal Government next month, when the conference of the Australian Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Organiser for War Fund 17 Applications on Closing Day
The closing time for applications for the position of organiser to the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War Fund was 4…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War in the Air and on Paper Too London
A Paris official radio report states: "Our planes reconnoitred over Germany to a depth of 250 miles." Germans who flew over Eastern and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sweden New Crisis Centre War Against Reds Likely Vital Iron Ore Supplies London
Extension of the European conflict, involving the Allies against Russia as well as Germany, is regarded as more likely than ever in view of enemy pressure on the Scandinavian neutrals…
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