War Veterans Move to Aid Comforts Drive
SYDNEY, Friday.—Following a conference between executive officers of the Australian Comfort Fund "Salute to Valour" art union and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 105
Says War Brides Happy in U.S.A.
SYDNEY, Friday.—An Australian girl married to an American serviceman discovered when she arrived in America that her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Victims of War Homes Sought for State Wards
Homes were urgently needed by the Department of Child Welfare for State wards now in hostels or depots in Sydney, said the Child…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Order to Munitions Factories Soldier Preference In Retrenching
CANBERRA, Friday.—Members of the Forces and persons entitled to preference under the Re-establishment Act will be the last wartime employees to be dismissed from Government munitions factories…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Settlement Bill This Session
CANBERRA, Friday.—Legislation would be brought down this session to implement the joint Commonwealth and State scheme to settle returned servicemen on the land, the Minister for Postwar Reconstruction (Mr. Dedman)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Tobacco for Sick Soldiers Minister Refuses to Make Precedent
In refusing a request by the New Lambton-Lambton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League for a special issue of tobacco for sick returned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Work on Home For War Widow
The foundation and framework of two front rooms were constructed yesterday by a working-bee organised by Wallssend Returned Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nippon And Nerve-War
JAPAN is reeling from the attack of the Allies like a boxer awaiting the knockout. All war is a nerve-war today…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Denmark's Hidden War Fortunes
LONDON, July 22. A.A.P.—Hidden war fortunes totalling between 6,000,000,000 and 7,000,000,000 kroner will, it is believed be revealed as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Building Home for War Widow
Formed by the Wallsend sub-branch of the returned Soldiers' League, this working bee was on the job yesterday finishing off a home at the corner of Sandgate-road and Vale-street, Birmingham Gardens, Wallsend, for Mrs. A. Hunter, a war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adopt War-time Slogan in League
"THE ENEMY LISTENS," a war-time slogan, may well be applied to Rugby League. After the struggle that has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Army Rations for Prisoners of War
CANBERRA, Sunday.— Commenting on complaints that enemy prisoners of war were issued with fresh meat when civilians had to accept frozen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Commission Seeks Place For Trials
LONDON. July 22. A.A.P.—The British, United States and French representatives on the War Crimes Commission left London by air…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smuts Says Next War Will be Universal Suicide
LODON, July 22. Official Wireless. —"The nations must organise for peace with the same deadly earnestness they organized for war," said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A.C.T.U. Official Says—USE War Factories for Civil Needs
SYDNEY, Sunday.— Munition factories no longer required for war production should be switched over to the manufacture of much needed civilian goods, said the A.C.T.U. senior Vice-president (Mr. R. A. King, M.L.C.)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Sterilise Errant Wives of Soldiers"
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Unfaithful wives of soldiers and their paramours should be sterilised, said the President of the Returned Soldiers' League…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rented House Too Small Soldier Refused Permit to Build
For 12 months a returned soldier, living in rented premises too small for the family, has been endeavouring to secure a permit to build. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldier Case Railways Chiel Fined £5
SYDNEY: The Commissioner for Railways was fined £5 with 8/- costs in the Federal Court today for failure to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Returned Men and Miners
The Northern Board of Management of the Miners' Federation considers that federation policy for exservicemen returning to the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Referred to Convention Miners' Policy on Returned Men
The miners' Northern Board of Management yesterday decided to refer to the national convention next month a recommendation that a…
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