War Strategy Conference
CANBERRA, Friday.—Important conferences on higher war strategy will be held at Melbourne on Monday and Tuesday and will be…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
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Helping the War Effort
HAMILTON WESLEY WOMEN'S WAR SERVICE LEAGUE: Mrs. J. Swain was the hostess at a clock golf afternoon held at her home. Everton street…
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The war veterans' art union No 4 has been launched to raise funds for the war veterans' homes in New South Wales. There are now three…
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CANBERRA: "New era war" is the latest of a number of suggestions made to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) as a title…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Large quantities of war material which were ordered by the Netherlands East Indies Government from America, but…
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Hamilton Farewell and Welcome Home Committee will entertain 40 soldiers at the Hamilton Council Chambers to-morrow afternoon and…
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SYDNEY, Friday.âWilliam Ernest McDonald 40, soldier, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Herron at the Central Criminal…
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News has been received by his wife that Staff-Sergeant Stewart Caston. only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Caston. of Margaret-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attend Anzac Service
V.A.D. 322 will not meet this week. Members should attend the 9.30 a.m. service at Newcastle Cathedral on Saturday (Anzac Day). Members will…
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The President (Mr. Rose) reported to last night's meeting of Wickham-Carrington Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, that there…
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The Government's attitude to-wards the holding of processions on Anzac Day, and the decision not to open hotels were strongly…
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MAYFIELD AUXILIARY.—An appeal for more members from the northern end of its area has been made by the Women's Auxiliary of No. 8 Group…
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During wartime children were being subjected to many circumstances that were likely to affect their development Lack of adult attention,…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Government had no political aims in its war effort, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said…
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WASHINGTON, Sun. (AAP).— A charge hits been made by the War Production Board that America's largest steel producer, the…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP): Ninety per cent, of the Home Guards believe that men and women should stand shoulder to shoulder in a total war, though there were still people who thought a woman's role even in war-time was to…
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The resolution of the State conference on Sunday entertainment appears to go beyond the disclosed need. It endorsed the…
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An appeal to servicemen to remember that every purchase of tobacco or cigarettes they made outside their camps was depriving…
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A street procession in which members of national emergency and patriotic organisations will march will be part of the…
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In the last war 2,000,000 British women stood behind the armies in the munition factories. Australian women are just as keen to…
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