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The wars & local soldiers, 1930

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Soldier Settler Case Not Making Full Use of Holding

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 6

A case of particular interest to soldier settlers was dealt with at Armidale Land board, when an inquiry was held as to whether Durward Langdon…

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Found in Back Yard Man Dead, Girl Badly Wounded

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sunday.--The dead body of Jack Hursch (25), waterside worker, was found at the back of his house in Clare Street. A neighbour…

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Bullet in Heart Soldier Lives Six Months

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday:--An official report regarding the death of an army reservist discloses a remarkable case of a 22 bullet lodging…

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Fatally Wounded Shooting Gallery Attendant

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.--David Hamilton (42), of Redfern, was fatally wounded in a shooting gallery at Haymarket this evening…

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Help for Ex-soldiers £102,000,000 Expended War Pensions and Repatriation

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 5

Expenditure on General Repatriation and War Pensions from the inception of the scheme to June 30th, 1929, amounted to £22,069,591 and…

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War Pensions Payments Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 4

From the inception of the war pensions scheme in 1916 to June last Australia has expended sums totalling £80,904,000. During the same period…

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"War Unthinkable" Hertzog's Sentiments CAPETOWN

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 9

The Assembly unanimously adopted the Premier's motion confirming the Government's acceptance of the optional clause in the world court statute…

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Huge Wattle Wreath Australia Honors War Heroes

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Whitehall was shrouded in fog when Mr. Fenton and Sir Granville Ryrie placed a huge wattle wreath on the Cenotaph, in the…

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War Pensions Scheme Australia Has Paid £80,904,000

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Since the inception of the war pensions scheme in 1916, to June last, Australia has expended sums totalling £80,904,000…

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Mr. Scullin Firm Rejects A.L.P.'s Demands "It Would Mean Civil War"

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 3

"Insofar as the proposals made at the conference called in Sydney to discuss the coal dispute involved an entire disregard of the…

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More Dismissals Return Soldier Postal Workers

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Thirty returned soldiers employed by the Postal Department at Central Square have been served with dismissal notices, to take…

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Sacked Infirm Returned Soldiers

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--Thirty returned soldiers, employed by the Postal Department at Central Square Office, Sydney, have been informed that their…

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Returned Soldiers Coraki Sub-branch Annual Meeting

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 13

The annual meeting of the Coraki sub-branch of the R.S.S.I.L. was held at the club rooms, Coraki, on Friday, there being present Messrs. E. T…

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Repatriation Help for Ex-soldiers £102,000,000, Expended

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 7

Expenditure on general repatriation and war pensions from the inception of the scheme to June 30, 1929, amounted to £22,669,591 and £80,…

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Returned Soldiers Post Office Dismissals SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 4

Thirty returned soldiers employed by the Postal Department at Central Square Office, Sydney, have been served with dismissal notices to take…

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Woman Wounded Gunshot Wound in Head Alleged Drunken Orgy

Tweed Daily · Friday 31 January 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday:--In a disturbance in a house at Kensington last night Mrs. Ruby Agnes Hayes was shot in the scalp, and is now in…

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War Pensions

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1930 · page 1

Since the inception of the war pensions scheme in 1916, to June last, Australia has expended sums totalling £80,904,000. During the same period,…

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Mule Skinner Now U.S. Secretary For War Colonel Hurley's Rise

Northern Star · Saturday 1 February 1930 · page 14

"Say, did you know that an oldcountry boy from just twentyeight miles from Claremore, Oklahoma, was Secretary of War?" asks Will Rogers…

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Help for Soldiers. Pensions and Repatriation. Interesting Figures

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1930 · page 4

Expenditure on general repatriation and war pensions from the inception of the scheme to June 30, 1929, amounted [?]o £22,069,591 and £80,904,964…

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Amok with Gun Mad Armenian Murdered 5; Wounded 2 Then Suicided

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 February 1930 · page 3

MARSEILLES, Friday.--Presumably insane owing to domestic worry, Joanes Harountunin (43), an Armenian laborer, ran amok,…

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