Helping War Effort Carrington Committee
Receipts of the Carrington Send-off and Welcome Home Committee for 1940 were £310 15s 8d. This was disclosed in the report…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 179
Tell Workers Truth Mr. Beasley on War Crisis
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Federal Government must take the workers into its confidence by giving them the truth of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Helping War Effort Boxing Tournament For Greek Appeal
Hamilton Send-off and Welcome Home Committee last night decided to support the Hamilton effort in aid of the Greek Day Appeal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women Are Disappointed No Overseas War Service Sydney
Rejection by the War Cabinet of the plan by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) to send Australian women to the Middle East for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drop in War Savings Sydney Official Confers With Committee
Perturbed at the slump in the sale of war savings certificates in Newcastle, Mr. R. J. Andrews, a representative of the central executive, has arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jury Locked Up for Night Soldiers Charged With Assault on Constable
Unable to agree after a retirement of five and a half hours, a jury was locked up for the night at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suburban Send Comforts to Local Soldiers Lambton Committee Decides
Lambton Soldiers' Welfare and Patriotic Committee determined last night to send comforts to members of the fighting forces from its district. Last month the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Keep Soldiers Financial Hospital Scheme Proposed
Whether soldiers who had allowed their hospital contributions to lapse after they had enlisted should be allowed to pay their arrears to obtain benefits for their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dependants of Soldiers and Hospital
The Patients' Fees Committee raised the question at last night's meeting of the Board of Directors of Newcastle Hospital whether soldiers who had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Menzies's "No Limit" Pledge to A.L.F. "Strikes, Folly Of Few" Address to Troops Awaiting Action "War Only Beginning, But Australia Ready" Gaza
"There can be no limit to Australia's effort," the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) told two huge parades of thousands of men of the A.I.F. to-day. "In munitions alone we produced last year ten times the quantity produced in the previous year. This year we shall increase it 30 times," he said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Employment of Returned Men Melbourne
Plans for the employment, sustenance and vocational training of returned soldiers will be submitted to members of the special Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Killed in Action A.I.F. Casualty List
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The latest A.I.F. casualty list for New South Wales, containing the names of infantrymen and one engineer, is as follows—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Helping War Effort Lysaght's Committee
The Lysaght's Send-off and Welcome Home Committee has been granted a permit to operate by the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Baddeley on War Contracts Sydney
"Between the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) and the State Premier (Mr. Mair) New South Wales is getting a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Retired Sportsmen Make Comebacks for War Charities
With most sport in England last year organised for Red Cross or some other war effort, there were many come-backs, with the veterans…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →China-japanese War Fighting Near Hongkong Hongkong, Wed
A major battle between Chinese and Japanese forces within 30 miles of the Hongkong border appears…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Priority to Defence Needs Discussed by War Council
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Urgent defence questions occupied the attention of the Advisory War Council to-day, at the request of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →What People Think Post-war Plan "J.G.B." writes
Mr. Mair proposes to set up an organisation to investigate post-war problems and to plan reconstruction. This sounds promising, as most things…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland and District War Savings Business Men to Launch Campaign
The chief objective of the Maitland Business Men's Club in the coming year will be to sponsor the sale of war savings certificates. This was decided at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Berlin "Gloomier Than Moscow" As War Drags on London
"Something more than a comer of the veil which the German censorship interposes between the Reich and the rest of the world has just been lifted by first hand reports reaching here," cables Sir Wilmott Lewis to "The Times," from…
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