£901,000,000 War Borrowings
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Wartime borrowings will be raised to more than £901,000,000 by the Second Victory Loan of £160,000,000, to open…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
2,418 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 121
City Engineer Back From War Work
After service with the American Forces. Mr. E. Knott resumed today ns City Engineer with Greater Newcastle Council…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A 16-year-old boy who had joined the A.I.F. to avenge his father's death was killed to-day while trying to open a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Because of changed military conditions it is no longer possible for the Army to release individual soldiers for rural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →University Right of Soldiers Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Spender Differ
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Vice-Chancellor of Sydney University (Sir Robert Wallace) and Mr. Spender, M.H.R., a member of the University…
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Mr. H. Tate told members or the Wickham-Carrington Returned Soldiers' sub-branch last night that a woman who had two…
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WALLSEND HOSTEL.—A card evening will be held tonight at 8 o'clock by the Happiness Club. There will be a meeting of the Red Cross at 2.30…
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LONDON, Monday: A warning against hopes of a speedy and spectacular victory against Germany was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Pacific Era After War
NEW YORK, July 10. A.A.P.—After the war, the United States would enter an "era of the Pacific," in which one main area of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia Spent £1,500,000 a Day on War Last Year
CANBERRA, Monday.—In the financial year just ended, expenditure on war services amounted to approximately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Cripple Seeks Soldier Pen-friends
CANBERRA, Monday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) has received shoals of letters from Australians who wish to correspond with Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Writes With Artificial Hand
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Lieutenant J. McCulloch is able to write, cut his meals and dress with an artificial hand made at Heidelberg…
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MELBOURNE. Monday.—A remand to July 17 was granted at the City Court when John Ernest Turnbull, 28, A.I.F. was charged with…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Stanley Stephenson, 26, of Granville, who was shot in the stomach in a train between Liverpool and Glenfield on…
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LONDON, July 11. A.A.P. — Replying to Sir Herbert Williams (Con.), who asked if any statement would be made about the murder…
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Mr. P. C. Spender, M.H.R., has stated simply the dual problem which faces the universities in saying that it is necessary to define…
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ADAMSTOWN PRISONERS OF WAR AUXILIARY held its third annual meeting in the Adamstown Soldiers' Memorial Hall yesterday. The president (Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Zoot Suit Gang War in N.york
NEW YORK, Tuesday: In a pitched battle last night between three rival zoot suit gangs in Harlem, one man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Half Million Dollars To Buy War Bonds
American naval personnel in the Southwest Pacific contributed nearly half a million dollars for war bonds in a special July 4…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Bill £25,000,000 Below Estimate
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Economies had affected Australia's war expenditure in the last financial year, which had been £25,000,000 less than…
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