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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1946

191 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 10

No Peace For War Magnates

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 August 1946 · page 4

Two of the greatest names in U.S. war production have been brought under the spotlight of the war profits investigation. War…

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Council Is Perturbed Over Big Slice Taken Out of Ryrie Park. for Soldiers' Club Rooms

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 August 1946 · page 1

At last meeting of Tallaganda Shire Council a letter was read from the Under-Secretary, Dept, of Loads, forwarding sketch, plan of proposed War…

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A Suggestion for War Memorials

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 August 1946 · page 2

What is to be done with Britain's blitzed churches? Should they be restored, rebuilt, removed or replaced? Dr. Nikolaus Pevsner, who is…

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War Service Land Settlement "Willeroo" Estate, Tarago

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 August 1946 · page 3

ATTENTION is invised to a notifcetion in the Government Gazette of 9th August, 1946, setting apart line…

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Welcome Home Another Batch of Soldiers Entertained

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1946 · page 3

Friday night's function at the Institute, though it did not embrace as many of Braidwood district's men who had been away in the services as on…

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War Memorial Committee

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 September 1946 · page 1

Queanbeyan War Memorial Committee, having in view the fact that donations, large and small, would be forthcoming, approached the…

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War Not Over Yet

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 September 1946 · page 4

Dr. J. Newman Morris, Australian Red Cross representative to two international conferences in Europe, said on his arrival in…

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Plans for War Widows in the Country

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 September 1946 · page 4

Plans to confect all war widows in the country and to extend to them the many services which have been established for widows in Sydney are…

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Local and General Soldiers' Club Room in Ryrie Park

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 2

The attendance at a special meeting of the local branch of the Returned Soldiers' League on Saturday indicated intense interest in the above…

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Notes and News This Soldiers' Memorial

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 2

There were some heartburnings over the result of Saturday night's Returned Soldiers' meeting, severel enthusiastic supporters of the original…

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Soldiers'memorial Club Room Alternative Suggestions Sought

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 2

The attendance at last Saturday night's meeting of the R.S. League was one of the largest ever seen in Braidwood. These were between 50…

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Tobacco at Pre-War Level

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 4

Tobacco and cigarette supples available to civilians next month will be equal to these on sale before rationing, but, because demand has…

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Soldier Settlement 840 Applications For Nine Blocks

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 2

Ballot for nine farms, Previously part of the Willeroo Estate, Tarago, was conducted at Queanbeyan by representatives of the Land Board…

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Tyres and the War Britain’s Great Effort

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 October 1946 · page 2

How invaluable the rubber industries of the Empire and American were to the war effort of the Allied Nations probably will never be…

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Worse Than Bombs New Dangers in War LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 October 1946 · page 1

The atom bomb is only one of the terrible things in store, for mankind if it persists in pursuing the path of war, said Professor…

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Soldiers' Memorial Club Room

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1946 · page 4

After the motion to rescind a previous resolution to build a Memorial Club Room in Ryrie Paris had been carried, a committee of nine was…

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Soldier Settlement Lag Plenty of Promises But No Land

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 October 1946 · page 2

“Today, more than twelve months after the end of the war, not one member of the armed forces has been settled on the land in New…

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Final Welcome Home To Service Personnel

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 1

The final of the series of Welcome Home socials to Service personnel will be held in the Star Theatre on Thursday, October. 17. The…

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German Police Want War Criminals

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 2

LONDON.—American military authorities turned away German police whom the Bavarian Premier, Hoegner, had sent to the gaol to arrest…

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Ambitious Post-war Plan

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1946 · page 2

Eighteen dams and storages, eight diversion weirs, flood mitigating and river protention works, farm water supplies and shallow and deep boring…

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