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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1936

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Soldiers’ Sons and the R.s.l

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 7

A suggestion by Mr. T. C. Perry (hon. secretary) that a motion should go forward to the State conference favouring the admittance…

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Soldier Settlers’ Deputation

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 7

Replying at Casino to a deputation of Dyraaba soldier settlers, which asked for improvement of the conditions under which the…

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Great War Adventures

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 20 August 1936 · page 6

The Fifteenth Series of Great War Adventures is now on sale and is packed from cover to cover with real experiences of soldiers, sailors and…

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War On Rabbits VIRUS 100 Per Cent Effective

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 August 1936 · page 5

The Government is out after the last rabbit. Experiments with a new virus may shortly be undertaken under…

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The Irony of War and Peace

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 5

A fool stood by the side of the road and watched the approach of a body of armed troops. “Where do these men come…

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Child for Ex-soldier

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 9

A former soldier of the Polish Army, whose sex was changed from male to female, a year ago, is now reported to have given birth to a…

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After Effects. War Legacies

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 5

That sons and daughters of returned soldiers may be inclined to develop T.B. was one of the points raised by the…

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Costs Of War. Pensions End in 1955

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 1

The British Ministry of Pensions hopes to finish paying for its share of the cost of the Great War by 1955—41 years after its outbreak…

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War On Rabbits. VIRUS 100 Per Cent. Effective

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 6

The Government is out after the last rabbit. Experiments with a new virus may shortly be undertaken under field…

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War on Rust Ford Shows the Way

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 September 1936 · page 12

Rust was once the greatest enemy of the engineer, but tens of thousands of present day motorists drive for years and are never…

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A Strange Meeting The Man Who Won The War—And The Man Who Lost It

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Thursday 3 September 1936 · page 8

Late on a winter evening in 1927 I was travelling on the Brussels express (writes Robert Buckner in the Atlantic Monthly). It sped down the…

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Civil War in Spain

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 September 1936 · page 17

Messages from Spain indicate that the Socialist Government Forces are more than holding their own against the Fascist Monarchist rebels. The map shows the approximate areas controlled by the Government and the rebel forces in Spain…

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Local News Soldier Settlers

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 10 September 1936 · page 4

A conference of soldier settlers, under the auspices of the Returned Soldiers' League, will be opened on. September 22 in Sydney. Delegates…

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The Spanish Civil War. London

The Western Herald · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 7

The Spanish rebels opened the heaviest the offensive against Toledo to-day they claim to have inflicted a thousand loyalist…

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The Saddest Debt From Late War

The Wellington Times · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 4

The British Ministry of Pensions hopes to finish paying for its share of the cost of the Great War by 1955—41 years after its outbreak…

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Civil War

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 10

It is thoroughly in accord with orthodox Communist doctrine to argue that "imperialist war", which means any war between one country…

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War on 'Hoppers Local Campaign Planned Farmers Favour Flame Throwers As Means of Destroying Pests

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 8

Convened by Mr Colin McKellar for the purpose of considering the grasshopper position, a large number of men on the land…

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Soldier Settlers at Annual Conference Coonabarabran Delegates Attend

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 11

The annual Soldier Settlers’ Conference, held in Sydney last week, discussed many questions relating to primary production, marketing,…

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Both Sides of War What a Golfer Saw

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 October 1936 · page 11

Out of the welter of savagery and tales of horror that come to us from the tragic internecine warfare in Spain,…

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Soldiers’ Preference

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 8 October 1936 · page 11

That unemployment among boys was caused by the operation of the Returned Soldiers’ Preference Act was denied by the Acting-Premier…

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