War Fosters Invention
The North Western Courier · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 6
An interesting sidelight on Australia's rich fund of resourcefulness is provided by the range and number of inventions submitted to the Army Inventions Directorate. No fewer than 13,000 ideas, plans and contrivances to help'us .win the war have already been offered to the nation. Manv of the ideas will be help-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Memorial Swimming Pool
The North Western Courier · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 4
A public meeting at Casino decided to proceed with a war Memorial Olympic Swimming Pool. Briefly the scheme resolved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Violinist's Ear Aids War Work
The North Western Courier · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 7
Godfrey Ludlow, Australian-born violinist, has put aside his violin for the duration of the war, and is now using his musical ear…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s. War Leaders Confer in New Guinea
The North Western Courier · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3
Robert P. Patterson: (centre), U.S. Under Secretary of War, and General Douglas MacArthur, Allied Commander in Chief in the Southweat Pacific, shake hands on a New Guinea airfield before Mr. Patterson and Lieutenant General William S. Knudsen (left)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suitable Books For Soldiers
The North Western Courier · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 5
Red Cross. Commissioner J. A. Nimme has recently reported from the Northern Areas as follows :—"Reading matter from N.S.W. I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Home and Social One Soldier To Another
The North Western Courier · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 5
The hills were green in April AH carpeted with flowers, And we were there together With every moment ours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Damage Insurance Suspended
Manilla Express · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 2
The Federal War Cabinet has decided to suspend payments under the War Damage Scheme for 1944. The 1943 payment will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoner of German War in
North West Champion · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh, of "Willowlee," [?] be pleased to learn that they received word to the effect that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →1944 Decisive Year of War
North West Champion · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1
NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).—The official Tokio radio said to-day that while 1944 will be the decisive year of the war, that is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Insurance Under War Damage Scheme
The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7
It was announced recently that War Cabinet had decided to extend the contribution period under the War Damage Scheme ending…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Japs. Resigned to Long War New York, Wednes
The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1
The official Tokio radio said to-day that while 1944 will be the decisive year of the war, that is not to say it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Battle of Leningrad Greatest Russian Onslaught of War Terrific Artillery Barrage LONDON, Wednes
The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1
Following Stalin's Order of the Day announcing a new offensive from the Pulkeva area, and south from Oranieubaum…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia Leads the Allies in Enlistment. What of the Food Front ? SYDNEY
North West Champion · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4
The view has long since been expressed that the weakening of production on the food front has been much overdone by our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder of Polish War Prisoners
North West Champion · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 1
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.)—The Special Soviet Commission investigating the murder of Polish war prisoners by the Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£200,000,000 for Post-war Works. Canberra
North West Champion · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 1
Immediate concentration on a programme of post-war works classified as urgent and important, the estimated cost which will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Graft Work for Soldiers
The North Western Courier · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 6
Miss Frances Wade, the Chief craftworker in the Australian Red Cross Rehabilitation Department, has just returned from a seven…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cycle of War Problems
North West Champion · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 5
War requirements have a tendency to move in cycles—the problems that beset a nation early in a war are solved one by one, but in their places…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welcome Home Committee
Manilla Express · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3
At the Public meeting held on Saturday last at the Council Chambers the following seven were appointed to the Welcome…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wounded in Action Chaplain's Sympathy
The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 7
Miss J. Simmonds, of Balonne street Narrabri, has received a letter from Chaplain E. Weber, concerning her brother, Pte. G. W…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Housing a Post War Activity
The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 3
"Housing is one of the major problems we face as a nation," said Mr. J. S. Gawler, Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth…
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