Waitress Dead, Two Wounded Shooting in Street
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Miss Pearl Lilian Oliver, 19, waitress, was fatally shot through the back four times in a shooting affray in a…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 75 of 128
Helping the War Effort
P. OF W. COLLECTIONS.—Collections returned by members of the Waratah-Mayfield Red Cross branch for the prisoners of War fund yesterday were,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Doubles Its Purchase of War Savings Certificates
Newcastle has almost doubled its purchases of war savings certificates in the past couple of weeks. From £2460, the weekly average of sales has jumped to £4436. The increase is attributed by the Northern Organiser…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exchange of Soldier Miners
Negotiations for the transfer of mineworkers in the Army who desired to return to the industry in exchange for young miners who were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Solves Soldiers' Family Problems
DOMESTIC and financial difficulties and other problems of servicemen and their families provide members of the Welfare…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Memorial Hospital Returned Men Move
The Newcastle District Council of Returned Soldiers decided last night to invite the cooperation of Newcastle Hospital Committee in a…
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ADAMSTOWN P.O.W. AUXILIARY yesterday acknowledged collections under the street adoption scheme from Mrs. W. Gillard, £1 18s; Mrs. E…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post-war Food Stringency
LONDON, Wednesday.—Minister for Agriculture (Mr. R. S. Hudson) told Hip Commons that the first two years after the war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →History of World War II
So much has happened on the many fonts of World War H., in 1942, that there were be a warm welcome for the third volume of the Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Use Discretion in War Damage Arrears
The War Damage Commission did not intend to press for payment of war damage insurance by old-age or other pensioners, and members of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →May Begin Housing Before War Ends
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Postwar housing schemes would be closely related to the needs of developing rural areas, said the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bigger Grant to Boer War Veterans
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell) said he had approved the Government grant to the South African Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Guinea Air War Direct Hits Scored on Japanese Destroyed: Transport
A fragmentary report from New Guinea tells of the interception of an enemy destroyer and a transport or cargo ship of unspecified size by our heavy bombers off Cape Gloucester, in New Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War's Greatest Air Raid 4600 Tons on Hamburg in Two Nights
LONDON. Wed.—In the heaviest air raid in history, Hamburg, Germany's biggest port, was blasted by the RAF…
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CARRINGTON P.O.W.âThe following collections have been made by carrington sub-branch of the Red Cross Society for the Prisoners of war…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hotelkeepers for War Service
After a surrey of Newcastle hotels, the Deputy Director-General of Manpower (Mr. Bellemore) said in Newcastle yesterday that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nation's Health in War
LONDON.—"The world would be a dull and colorless place if it were inhabited entirely by plaster…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade After the War
LONDON.—Members of the Federation of British Industries demand that such plans as are made for after the war shall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Private Enterprise and War
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Labour was desperately trying to establish that it had won the war for Australia, but the credit really went to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Monuments "Waste of Money"
"After the last war. a tremendous amount of money was wasted on war monuments. They were Just lumps of .stone clumped down…
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