Anzac Day Celebrations
The Lismore branch of the Returned Soldiers' League will again organise special celebrations for Anzac Day. A meeting of the committee controlling…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1931
757 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 38
Legacy of War £7,809,929 Paid as Pensions
MELBOURNE, Monday:--According to a return issued to-day, there are 1282,629 pensioners, comprising ex-soldiers, ex-sailors and dependents. The…
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The committee of the Lismore subbranch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. last night's considered tentative arrangements for Anzae Day observance and the sports…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sand Flies Nuisance at Tweed Heads War on Mangroves
Owing to the sultry weather conditions which have prevailed lately, sand flies have become particularly troublesome at Tweed Heads during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Day. Not a Day of Remembrance' Returned Soldiers' Attitude
A motion deprecating the holding of social functions on Anzac Day, and urging its strict observance as a day of remembrance, provoked a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Wounded Youths in Orchard ORANGE
When a party of local youths visited an orchard on Molong road last night two shots were fired and Ernest Pound (18) fell to the ground with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Banana Growers' Offensive War on the Negligent
Tweed banana gorwers are launching a great offensive against Bunchy Top. Realising that the insurance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dissolution to Be Urged Decision of Soldiers' Organisation
SYDNEY, Wednesday:--Nationalist, speakers at Five Ways, Paddington, were treated with great hostility by an audience last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Club and Anzac Day
As advertised elsewhere a general meeting of the members of the Club and members of the Caledonian Society will be held at the Club…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Wounded Police Find Victims SYDNEY
Acting on information Cessnock police proceeded to Allandale road, about a mile and a half distant, and found John Eade (52) lying by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Next War Equalising Burdens Attempt to Scotch Profiteer American Commission
WASHINGTON, Thursday:--A Commission composed of members of Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives met to-day to work out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Next War Distribution of Burdens Action by America Washington
A commission composed of members of Cabinet, of the Senate and the House of Representatives met to-day to work out a plan for equalising the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Soldiers Incensed Eviction From Homes
Cessnock returned soldiers are incensed at the treatment which is being administered to many members of their organisation, in respect to their tenancy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ex-soldiers' Plight Life in a Shed Ex-connaught Ranger
In the town of Gort is a lean to shed built against the rubble wall. The building materials consist of old bacon boxes, borrowed from friendly…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"To Pigeon Soldiers" Unusual War Memorial
BRUSSELS, Sunday:--Perhaps the war's most unusual memorial is that immortalising wartime carrier-pigeons, which was unveiled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gun Explodes Man Wounded in Leg Numinbah Accident
Owing to the accidental explosion of a shotgun on the Queensland side of the border at Numihbah yesterday afternoon, Frederick Lentz, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Debts Reports Denied
SYDNEY, Monday: -- Reports that the British Government will cancel Australia's war debt have been denied by Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nerve of the Yank! War Prowess Grows
How American sailors chased the Emden is told by the Seattle "Post-Intelligeneer." A German training ship of the same name as the famous German…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Memorial Unveiled "To Pigeon Soldiers" BRUSSELS
Perhaps war's most unusual memorial is that memorising wartime pigeon carriers which was unveiled in the presence of many notables. It consists…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →INDIGNATION Dismissal of Ex-Soldiers SYDNEY
It is reported that as soon as the censure motion has been dispensed with in the House of Representatives, Mr. Eldridge, M.H.R., intends to move an…
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