Welcome Home Meeting Lapses
The meeting of the Peak Hill Patriotic Association which was advertised for Saturday night last lapsed for want of a quorum…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1947
271 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 14
Welcome Home New Year's Eve Social
A record crowd, approximately 400 people, attended the social at Tomingley on New Year's I've, the largest crowd ever, and the most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Appeal to America To Prevent War In Indo China PARIS
Depatches from Indo China say substantial French reinforcements beginning to arrive there, says the British United Press. N…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Dead fend" On Soldier Settlement
Referring to the rejection by the Closer Settlement Board of various estates offered for soldier settlement, Mr. Dickson, (U.P. Temora), said it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Impressive Funeral For Trangie Ex-Soldier
The flag at the memorial flew at half mast for the funeral of the late John Matthew Horrigan. which was held in Trangie on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Post-war Mile Posts Railway Signs and Omens
The Commissioner for Railways, in a recent report to Parliament, drew attention to the tremendous increase in the annual cost of running the New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Settlement Warning
The danger of estates acquired for soldier settlement deteriorating severely between the time they were falcon over by the government and the time when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Preference In Appointment of Governor-General
(Mr. W. F. Sheahan, Labour member for Yass in the Legislative Assembly and former Vice-President of the Federal Australian Labour Party…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blocks Too Small for Soldiers Settlers
The question of soldier settlements was discussed at last meeting of the Gilgandra eub branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newtown Welcome Home to Service Personnel
At the Newtown Hall last night, the Newtown Sailors," Soldiers' and Airmen's Entertainment Club tendered their final…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Japanese War Crimes Tribunal Tokio
The War Crimes Tribu[?]al prosecution expects its case will be completed on Wednesday or Thursday, after which the court will adjourn to Monday next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Story of World War
During the Christmas Parliamentary recess, Mr. Winston Churchill virtually completed the book which tells the inside…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German War Criminals BERLIN, Thursday
Fifteen guards from the notorious Flossenburg concentration camp have been sentenced to death by an American tribunal at Dachau after a trial lasting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War's Effect On Main Roads Board Activities
A striking picture of how the position of the Main Roads Board had changed, as a result of the war years, was given is the Legislative Assembly by the Leader of the Country Party (Lt. Col. Bruxner)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Never Again To Unite To Wage War' LONDON
Germany and Austria, in their respective peace treaties now being, discussed by the Foreign Ministers' Deputies," will be compelled to forswear for ever any thought of a union between the two countries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threat of Full Scale Civil War in Palestine Jerusalem
Full-fledged "fratricidal war" will follow any attempt to oppose the Jewish Terrorist organisation Irguns Zvai Leumi. This threat was voiced by a woman announcer on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Soldier Executed Overseas BERLIN, Thursday
A British soldier, F. J. Upson, R.A.S.C. has been hanged for the murder of a 60-yearold German woman in the French sector of Berlin after the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Service Land Settlement "Gragin" Estate, Delingra
Attention is invited to a notification in the Government Gazette of 17th January, 1947. setting apart thirty blocks on Gragin Estate between [?]nverell and Waria[?] at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxi Driver Seriously Wounded. MELBOURNE
A Chinese seaman, Yung Shing, was shot dead and a taxi-driver, Albert Pack, was seriously wounded last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anzac House to Be Built in Martin Place
State Cabinet has decided to vote £100,000 towards the purchase of a site for Anzac House in Sydney…
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