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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1948

69 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Disclosure of Soldier Settlers' Affairs

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 4

A recent action by the Minister for Lands (Mr. W. F. Sheahan) is one that must cause the utmost alarm throughout the State, said the…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Extending Rehabilitation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 4

The importance to the community of rehabilitation schemes, brought into being by the war, has become so obvious that some of them are to be…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Lawrence Olivier and C.r.t.s

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 2

During his stay in, .Sydney, Sir Lawrence Olivier will lecture to ex-servicemen and women training under the Commonwealth…

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Navy Stages Biggest Exercise Since the War

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 4

The North Sea off the coasts of Scotland and Norway was the scene of the biggest British naval exercises since the war. The naval forces include the battleships “Anson” and “Howe”, the aircraft carrier “Implacable”, the cruiser “Superb” with eleven destroyers , four…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Community and Re-establishment Exhibition

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 July 1948 · page 3

Later this year Sydney will see a Community and Re-establishment Exhibition which has been prepared by the Public Relations Division of the ministry…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Hire Purchase Assistance to Industry

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 3

Many ex-servicemen engaged in industry are not aware of the Hire Purchase facilities offered by the industrial Finances Department of…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Opening of St. Mary’s Technical College

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 3

For the first time in N.S.W a Technical College has been provided to cater for the needs of employees in a newly established , industrial…

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Relations with Russia Post War Problem WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 1

In March, 1943, Mr. Anthony Eden, then British Foreign Minister told President Roosevelt at the White House that he thought Russia…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 3

C.S.I.R. INFORMATION SERVICE. During the past year, the information Service of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views C.r.t.s. Art Exhibition at Newcastle

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 4

The Exhibition of Fine Arts by ex-serviceman and women studying under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme is…

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Jemalong Soldier Settlement Blocks Adequacy of Size Questioned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 4

Doubt whether the size of the blocks was adequate, was expressed in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. W. A. Chaffey (C.P., Tamworth) when a…

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Soldiers’ Land Cost £6,000,000

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 2

At the Farmers and Settlers’ conference in Sydney, the Minister for Lands. Mr. Sheahan, states that 4,041 returned soldiers had been…

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One Dead-twenty Wounded Russian Tommy Gunners Fire on Anti-Communists in Berlin LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 3

According to the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Mail”, at least one man is dead and possibly 20 wounded as the result of shooting by…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Commonwealth Employment Service

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 September 1948 · page 4

Whatever opinions may be expressed by individuals about the Commonwealth Employment Service, the fact is that practically all…

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Department of Post War Reconstruction News and Views Miner’s Rehabilitation

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 September 1948 · page 4

Disabled N.S.W. miners are attending the jervis bay Rehabilitation Centre under a provisional agreement between the Joint Coal…

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War Memorial Hall Concert at Bateman's Bay (Contributed)

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

A concert in aid of the War Memorial Fund, held on 25th September, was a great success financially as well as artistically. The crowded hall and…

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Government Notice War Service Land Settlement "Tintaldra" Estate Tdmbarumba

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

ATTENTION is invited to a notification in the Government Gazette of 17th September, 1948, setting apart ten (10) blocks on "Tintaldra" Estate,…

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In Canberra Today From Our Columnist in Parliament House Australian Activity Against War

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

Election of Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, to the Presidency of the United Nations Assembly in Paris…

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Britain’s First Post-war Motor Show

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

The International Motor Exhibition, to be held at Earls Court, London, from October 27 to November 6. as in pre-war days, is likely…

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Church of England War Memorial Cross to be Unveiled and Dedicated

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

The 110th Anniversary of the foundation of the parish, of Christ Church, Queanbeyan, will be celebrated on the next two Sundays…

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