Last Welcome Home at Charlestown
Charlestown send-off and Welcome Home Committee will hold its final function on Saturday evening, when tea will be served at 6 p.m., by invitation only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1946
1,410 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 71
"Returned Men Walking Streets for Jobs"
Complaints that young returned men were walking the streets without employment were made at last night's meeting of Adamstown branch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Agriculture Office to Close
In accordance with the decision of the Federal Government to terminate war agriculture committees from March 14, local committees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canada Has 9000 War Prisoners
OTTAWA.—Behind the barbed I wire of an internment camp in northern Ontario are 900 German merchant seamen. Most of them were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A War Memorial—in Name Only
The ultimatum—it can scarcely be described in softer terms—of the Hospitals Commission is a severe blow to the plans of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Civil War Looming In Greece "Herald" Service
LONDON, March 13.—Dispatches from Greece assert that the country is heading for civil war while Bulgarian, Yugoslav,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Few Applications For War Service Houses Succeed
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The report of War Service Homes Commission for the 12 months ended June 30, 1945, which was tabled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →National Survey Indicates PostWar Ills Lessening
SYDNEY.—Official review of Australia's postwar health shows that the incidence of most diseases is lessening. After World War I. T. B. and influenza made devastating Inroads on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Out Of 4097 Get War Service Homes
CANBERRA.—Only two war service homes were built in N. S. W. between July 1, 1944, and February 28. 1946. the Minister for Housing (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Y.M.C.A. to Help War Veterans
"The Y.M.C.A. is out to held ex-servicemen finding it difficult to adapt themselves to civil life," said the Secretary (Mr. A. J. Symonds)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ex-Soldier Gaoled for Wounding
KEMPSEY, Wednesday.—A young ex-serviceman was sentenced to four years' gaol for having maliciously wounded a young couple at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Returned Soldiers and Unions
Sir.—M. G. Mullard is perturbed at the attitude of bread-carters to zoning and its effect upon the reemployment of returned soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Anzac Service at Sports Ground
On Anzac Day returned soldiers of both wars will march down Hunter-street to No. 1 Sports Ground where the commemoration service will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Agricultural Body Disbands
SYDNEY.—An organisation of 48 central and 1500 local wartime agricultural committees was disbanded by the Department of Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hitler's First War Minister Dead
NUREMBERG, March 14. A.A.P.—field-Marshal Wener von Blomberg, Minister of War in Hitler's first Cabinet, died from heart…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →President Truman "No Danger Of War"
WASHINGTON, Thursday. President Truman said today that he did not believe the international picture was "fraught with danger" as a great many people seemed to think…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap War Criminals Hanged in Singapore
LONDON, March 14. A.A.P.—Reuter's Singapore correspondent says that the first executions of Japanese war criminals in Singapore took place…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Impatience Of War Brides Increasing "Herald" Service
LONDON, March 14.—More than 100 Australian war brides from Brighton are planning to visit London on Friday to submit their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Call to War Against Soviet" Stalin Accuses Churchill
LONDON, March 14. A.A.P.—"There is no doubt that Mr. Churchill's course is a course aimed at war—war with the Soviet Union," said General issimo Stalin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Address on Soldiers' Land Settlement
An address on land settlement under the Re-establishment Act will be given by Mr. Ashton, of the public relations division of the…
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