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The wars & local soldiers, 1919

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Premiers' Conference. Financial Session. Important Commonwealth Proposals. Empire War Debts Commission. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 2

The Premiers' Conference resumed its sittings to-day and finance was discussed. Mr. Watt, referring to the per capita payments of 25/ by the…

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The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia. President Appeals to Returned Soldiers

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 8

Lieut.-Colonel W. K. Bolton, president of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia is issuing the following…

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Soldiers Group Purchases. Area No. 4 (TARCUTTA)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 4

Land District of Wagga and Kyeamba Shire. Of the 36 blocks originally thrown open all have been tentatively allotted, excepting Nos. 9, 11…

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Eight Soldiers Develop Symptoms. Medical Authorities View. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 2

Excitement was caused at the Red Cross Rest Home in Melbourne last night, when eight patients developed temperatures rising to 103 degrees, and…

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Sailors and Soldiers' League. Meeting of Wagga Subbranch

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 2

A meeting of the Wagga Subbranch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League of Australia was held at the Town Hall last night, Mr…

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Prisoner in Germany. Australian Soldier's Story

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

Private R. J. Skewes, who was wounded and taken prison by the Germans in July, 1916, has written from Ripon Camp. England, to his sister. Mrs. J. J. Mumford, Esplanade,…

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Methodist Church. Rev. J. G. Robertson Welcomed. a Returned Soldier-minister

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

The Methodist residents of the Area have every reason to congratulate themselves on the recent appointment by the President,…

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Irrigation Soldier Settlers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 3

Mr. Ashford, Minister for Lands, has promised that full consideration will be given to soldiers in the remission of rents and dues on land…

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Soldiers Welcomed

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 24 January 1919 · page 4

There was a good gathering at the [?] on Thursday evening of last week, the [?] being a welcome home to [?] and Trooper Percy…

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Careers After War. New Zealand's Care for Her Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 7

What will they do? For four years they have Imbibed and practised those principles of activity and conduct peculiar to the Army under service…

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War-Time Profits Tax

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 2

The Commissioner of Taxation announces that steps are being taken to prepare war time profits tax assessments in respect of profits derived…

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Allies War Council. Saturday's Conference. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 4

It is announced that the Supreme War Council meets to-day, when Marshal Foch, Sir Douglas Haig, and General Diaz will be present…

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"More War Loans." And Heavy Taxation. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 1

Mr. J. J. Cohen, speaking, said that moret war loans would probably be required, and heavy taxation was inevitable. It would strum the…

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A Nation in Rags. Belgium's Plight. Tragic Part of War

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 2

The pitiful plight of the Belgian population, due not only to lack of food and ill-treatment, but also to the entire absence of new supplies of clothes, is…

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Repatriation Work. the Work Op the Lands Department of N.S.W. Farms for Soldiers

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 6

The N.S W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr Ashford) claims that no departments has done so much for the soldier that desires to return to civil…

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Concessions for Soldiers' Relatives

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 4

The increasing number of men returning to Australia means an increasing steam of relatives to the city to meet them. Country relatives of soldiers…

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Soldiers' Memorial. Ways and Means Meeting of DELEGAtES

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 4

A meeting of delegates of various public bodies and the sub-committee which was appointed as the outcome of the recent public meeting in…

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Returned Soldiers As Wine-growers. (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents.) (To the Editor, "Daily Advertiser.")

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 6

Sir,—In your loading article of 21st inst. attention is drawn to a project by Mr. Bowser, Chief Secretary of the State of Victoria, to settle soldiers on…

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Injustice to a Soldier A Parson says [?] a Dam[?]able Thing. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 1

Speaking, at a soldiers welcome at Uralla the Rev. Cowie, Presbyterian minister, quoted an instance where a returned soldier at…

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Items of News. Soldiers' Diaries

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1919 · page 2

The trustees of the Mitchell Library are advertising for original diaries of Australian and New Zealand soldiers for preservation in the State archives…

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