Wants Embargo on Soldier Settlement Land Sales Lifted
At a meeting of Dyraaba R.S.L. yub-branch, it was decided to request the Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheehan) to lift the embargo on…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1949
369 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 14 of 19
Bonnie Prince Charles Enlisted
This ends debate concerning which Service he will join. Only six and a half months old now, Prince Charles, like other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. Saturday, June 18, 1949. New Knock For Soldier Settlers
THE REJECTION once again of representations concerning the production standard of proposed soldier settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Success of Soldier Settlement Claimed
CANBERRA, Sunday. — The Commonwealth Government preferred its soldier settlement plans to move slowly to fruition rather than rapidly to utter failure, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley.) said tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lower Interest On War Service Homes Advocated
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A reduction in the interest rates on war service homes, the abolition of the sales tax, and customs duty on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labuan War Cemetery Dedicated
LABUAN (North Borneo), Monday (AUP).—Hundreds of Malays and Chinese, as well as European residents of Labuan Island, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bowls Club Wins Anzac Cup at Nimbin
Nimbin Club members defeated the Diggers by 113 to 111 in an Anzac Cup bowls match. Scores (Club mentioned first): B. Slater, K…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Criminals to Test Legality of Detention
TOKIO, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter).—The Associated Press says that at least two of Japan's 16 major war criminals serving sentences will immediately file appeals in the lower American courts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settlement Standard Approved Minister Claims
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Standards set by the Commonwealth for the settlement of soldiers on si[?]gle farm units had met with the approval of dairying industry authorities, the Minister for Post-war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →India's Food Problem Tackled on War Footing
NEW DELHI, Thursday (AAP) —India's food problem is to be dealt with by the Government on a "war footing," the Prime Minister (Pandit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Borneo War. Dead Sleep Among Friends
It is a long way from Kyogle to the small island of Labuan, off the norht-western coast of Borneo, but an event in that tiny Malay State last Saturday had significance to more than one Kyogle family. It was the dedication ceremony of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →First War Batman
When General Sir Brian Robertson, British Commander-in-Chief in Germany, arrived at the Guildhall, London, to receive the freedom of the city, he was greeted by Mr. George Ackland, curator of a block of mansions in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Third World War Unless U.S.Aid: Chiang
TAIPEH (Formosa), Tuesday (AAP-Reuter). — Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told a United Press reporter that he would lead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Statement by Cripps Today "Most Important Since War"
LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—In an 80-minute meeting at Downing Street, a committee of Ministers last night approved the statement on the golddollar drain, which The Chancellor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Security Zones" in New War Rules
GENEVA, Sunday (AAP).—Government delegates drafting new rules of war agreed that nations may set up security zones to shelter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Soldier Killed in Brush With U.S. Troops
BERLIN, Sunday (AAP). — The United States army announced that a United States officer shot and killed a Russian soldier inside the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOOTBALL Kyogle Uulucky in Best Game Since Pre-War Days
Kyogle was the unlucky team when Lower River and Kyogle played a 13-all draw in an Anthony Shield competition game, on the showground on Sunday. In what many followers claimed as being the best football game…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of Interest To Women Kyogle Girl First Post-war Bride in New Ireland
At Kavieng, New Ireland, the event of the season took place on Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m., when the Administrator, Mr. W. J. Read, and Mrs. Read, entertained sixty guests on the occasion of the marriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freezing of British War Debts Urged
LONDON, Friday (AAP).—Freezing of war debts "which we incurred when bleeding ourselves white for every nation in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Settlers' Conditions Strongly Criticised
Strong criticism of some of the conditions under which of servicemen were being placed on the land was made in the Legislative Assembly by the Deputy Leader of the Country Party (M. D. H. Drummond, M.L.A.)…
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