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The annual Casino R.S.S. and A.I.L.A. Anzac Day essay competition for secondary schools was won for the third year in succession by 16-years-old Casino High School student, Dawn Ryan. Last year she tied with an Adelaide student in the national competition. Dawn's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Over 90 players teed off in the annual Anzac Cup competition at the Lismore links Perfect course conditions were reflected in the leading scores as 12 players had nett cards of par or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Under an overcast sky today, more than 40,000 returned servicemen and women marched through the streets of Sydney in the annual Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During a day of solemn remembrance, large crowds of Lismore and district people yesterday attended Anzac Day commemoration services in large and small centres to pay homage to the dead of four wars. Although there were fewer people than last year at the Dawn Service in Lismore, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A feature of the Anzac Day services held at Nimbin was the well-attended ceremony held at Lillian Rock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a game that seldom reached first grade standard. South Lismore yesterday defeated a makeshift North…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More than 150 ex-servicemen participated in the Anzac Day March and Commemoration services held yesterday. This was a slight decrease…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Star Queensland sprinter, Tony Booth, yesterday equalled and then smashed Australian champion Hector Hogan's 220 yard record for the Far North Coast. Booth was competing at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A large crowd, representative of returned men of three wars, patriotic, church and local organisations and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The national significance of Anzac Day would be lost if it became one of the country's holidays without…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Nimbin Anzac ball arranged under the auspices of the Nimbin sub-branch of the R.S.L. was largely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- More intense land use has been underlined, on countless recent occasions, as the answer to our food production needs, said the Minister for Lands, Mr. Hawkins…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Anzac Day celebrations commenced in Urbenville when, after a wreath laying ceremony at the Urbenville cemetery, over a hundred exservicemen, members of the Junior Red Cross and pupils of the Urbenville district school marched to the Memorial Gates at the Urbenville…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Woodenbong Golf Club last weekend conducted its annual Anzac. Cup carnival. A good field contested the cup match and the popular winner was the club secretary, Mr. J. (Beau) Brummell, who returned, a net 62 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The toast to "Fallen Comrades" would be drunk in a very unworthy way unless with it went the solemn resolve to be worthy of the memory of those they honoured, Rev. J. H. Gowdie, B.A., declared at the Anzac Day luncheon on Monday. To Rev. Gowdie, a padre in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In one sense Anzac Day could be likened to a day of national and individual reckoning, said Fr. G. Parker at the Requiem Mass held for fallen servicemen and women of both wars at Kyogle Catholic Church on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BALLINA, Friday.--Efforts will be made by Ballina R.S.L. Branch to compile a list of all returned soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, Friday. -- President Eisenhower yesterday renewed his solemn pledge that the United States would not get…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ON the 25th of April every year, the people of Australia and New Zealand celebrate Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Taxation had reached exorbitant proportions under the Menzies-Fadden administration, and was now higher than it had ever been since the war, the Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Evatt, said in a broadcast tonight…
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