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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1924

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Anzac Day

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 15 August 1924 · page 6

The question whether Anzac Day which is to be substituted as a holiday for Prince of Wales' Birthday, is to become a bank holiday was raised at…

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School Teacher Shot. Wounded Near Heart

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 August 1924 · page 4

William Gibson, the school teacher at Darralume public School, was shot by a bullet from a pen-rifle about 6 p.m. on Tuesday night…

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Returned Soldiers. ATTENTION!

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 August 1924 · page 4

The following letter is being published by the Secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. W. J. Stagg) in all the city papers. It is…

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Soldier Settlement Rates

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 19 August 1924 · page 4

The Talbragar Shire Council has been advised by the Department of Lands through the three members for Wammerawa that in regard to rates due on…

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Unemployed Soldiers. the Partially Incapacitated

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 22 August 1924 · page 7

Headquarters of the R.S. and S.I. League forwards the following on the above subject:- "The question of the employment of…

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Sydney University War Memorial Carillon

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 August 1924 · page 4

The University of Sydney decided at the beginning of this year to aim at establishing a definite and permanent War Memorial in the…

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Mayor of Dubbo Speaks for the West. Anzac Day Promise. the Civic Club and the Governor

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 2

On Friday afternoon last the members of the Civic Club, Sydney. presented Sir Dudley de Chair, the State Governor, with a group of portraits of…

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Dubbo Soldiers' Memorial Governor to Unveil

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 26 August 1924 · page 2

Last Week in Sydney Mr. J. B. Macdonald (Mayor) attended a function given by the Civic Club to the State Governor on his return from his far…

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War on Caterpillers and Cut Worms

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 3

By the courtesy of Mr. Don. McLeod, of the Dubbo Flour Mills, who received it from Messrs. Gillespie and Son, we are enabled to publish the Government…

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Blinded Soldiers First

Western Age · Friday 19 September 1924 · page 4
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

With the members of the Talbragar Shire Council the welfare of blinded returned soldiers rightly comes before memorials to ambassadors or poets. At…

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Rasonville F.S.A. Ball Soldiers' Memorial Benefits

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 October 1924 · page 6

The ball which took place at the Empire Hall last Tuesday night, under the auspices of the Rawsonvillie branch of the F.S.A., in aid of the Soldiers'…

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China's Little War. London, Monday Night

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 14 October 1924 · page 2

A report from Shanghai states that China's civil war is practically over, owing to the Governor and military leader having fled to Japan…

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Soldiers' Memorial and Prime Minister's Visit. an Unaccepted Suggestion

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 4 November 1924 · page 2

As the Prime Minister (Mr.Bruce) will visit Dubbo on Monday next, and the excavation work in connection with the erection of the Dubbo Soldier's…

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Soldiers' Memorial

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Wednesday 5 November 1924 · page 2

Mr. Dr. Maclean is in receipt of a very handsome set of plans drawn [?] Mr. J. B. Macdonald, archited, of Dubbo relative to the proposed Soldiers…

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Returned Soldier-Settlers

The Wellington Times · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 3

The annual report of the department, tabled in the House, states that during last year 374 discharged soldiers were allotted farms, making…

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A Welcome Home to Mr. and Mrs. O'connor and Family

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 November 1924 · page 4

On monday morning, October 27th, the school children and many parents met the train at Eumungerie to welcome home their popular teacher, Mr…

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War Against Rabbits. Proposed Federal Scheme

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 November 1924 · page 2

Mr. E. Cook, M.H.R., one of the members of the Federal Public Works Committee is keenly interested in a movement which is…

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Preference to Soldiers

The Western Herald · Saturday 22 November 1924 · page 2

Under the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Employment Act employers are compelled. with a few exceptions, to give preference in employment to…

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America at War. (Published By Arrangement)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 5 December 1924 · page 8

Protesting against the Prohibition aw at a public mooting in New York, Senator Bruce, of Maryland, accused the Federal Government of making war…

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