War Risks for Workers
Adequate compensation cover for workmen injured on the job by enemy action is to be sought by the Newcastle Ironworkers' Union. About 6000 members…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
2,993 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 150
Helping the War Effort Newcastle First-aid Post
Newcastle first aid post is making an appeal for more equipment. The post, situated at Peters ice cream factory, serves the residents of Bar…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reds Push On; Threaten War on Nazi Soil
LONDON, Monday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.).—The liberation of Latvia, Lithuania, and Eastern Poland are no longer regarded as improbable outcomes of the great Russian offensive on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers and Citizens Prepare For Long Siege On Island Of Singapore
SINGAPORE, Monday.—As the battle for Singapore opens, the island's one million civilians are preparing for a long and bitter siege. In front of them at the battle stations are hundreds of troops to each of Singapore's 200 square miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed in Action in Malaya
Captain Harry Hingst has been reported killed in action in Malaya. He was well-known in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded In Action
Mrs. R. Bilcomb, of Martindale-street, Wallsend, has been notified…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extend War Work
Besides carrying on their own work, members of Newcastle Hospital Women's Auxillary yesterday accepted a suggestion by the President Mrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Executives for War Industries
War-time expansion of industry was creating new problems in supervision within the industries, Mr. R. B. Brown told…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Work in Country
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Small inland country engineering establishments, factories, and large garage workshops will be used to speed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stabilising War Risk Insurance Rates
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The United States Maritime Commission has announced a plan to stabilise war-risk insurance rates on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Secret War News for Premiers
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—For the first time State Premiers will attend a meeting of the War Cabinet to-morrow. The Prime Minister (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"War Time" in U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—President Roosevelt has requested that when clocks are advanced an hour in the U.S.A. on February 9, the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Food for War Prisoners in Japan
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The Red Cross has announced that as soon as arrangements are completed it will send a shipload of food from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Helping The War Effort Merewether School of Arts
Merewether School of Arts committee decided last night to offer the Mere-wether Red Cross the use of a room for storing goods to be used in case of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last War Ace Gives Up Rank to Serve Again
SYDNEY.— A well-known Sydney architect, who served as a squadron-leader in the Australian Flying Corps in the last war, is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →East Maitland Returned Soldiers
Mr. G. O. Jones presided at the annual meeting of East Maitland sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League. The Secretary's report revealed excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Enlistments in U.s.a. Navy
WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.):More than 100,000 men have volunteered, for the Navy since December 7…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Qld. Footballer Killed in Action
BRISBANE.—Sergeant Keith Horsley. Queensland representative Rugby Union player in 1928, and secretary and treasurer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Dead Estimated
NEW YORK, Wed (A.A.P.).—The total war dead of all belligerents in 1941 was 1,500,000. almost all of whom were killed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Damage Insurance Proposals
CANBERRA: War damage insurance will apply retrospectively and premiums will be calculated as from January 1 on properly…
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