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The wars & local soldiers, 1929

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Famous Australian Soldiers Speeches to Be Recorded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 4

The Federal Government has decided to make gramophone records of the speeches of famous Australian soldiers who fought with distinction in…

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Murrami Soldier Settlers Receive Report of R.s. Conference

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 4

Mr. Hugh de C. Manning presided over a meeting ot soldier settlers in the school hall at Murrami on Thursday evening last, when a report of…

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Soldier Settlers Council Petition to Parliament Seeking Reviewal of Determinations

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 2

Seepage, sheep financing, determinations and late appeals, were the principal matters that came up for discussion at the meeting of the…

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Mr. Thorby's Slur Resented by Soldier Settlers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 2

At the deputation which waited on the Minister for Agriculture this year in Sydney in connection with grievances on the irrigation area…

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Tariff Walls League Discussions Compensations for War Geneva, Sept. 9

The Daily Express · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 1

The Australian Press representative says among the speakers listed to mount the Assemblys tribune in current week are Messrs Marr…

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Export of Stud Sheep Returned Soldiers' Protest No Action by Government Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4

The Returned Soldiers' League has received a letter from the Prime Minister's Department stating: "All the different aspects of the matter have…

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Limbless Soldiers Dismissed From War Service Homes Department Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 2

Yesterday the limbless soldiers with eight years' service in the War Service Homes Department, were informed that they would not longer be…

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Naval War Horrors Stories of German Brutality

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 10

A howl of protest will probably come from Germany at the publication of Sir Archibald Hurd's third volume of the official history "The Merchant…

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Murrumbidgee Soldier Settlers Leeton

The Daily Express · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 8

A mesting of the Murrumbidgee District Council, representing Leeton, Yanco, Myall Park, Yenda, and Griffith [?]-branches of the Returned…

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Meat Tenders War Office Needs Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thorby, said to-day that .he had received advice from the Agent-General at for N.S.W. in London to the…

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Tinned Meats Huge War Office Contract Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Thorhy, said to-day that he had received advice from the Agent-General for New South Wales, Sir George…

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Three Hold-ups Postal Assistant and Grocer Robbed Constable Wounded Robbers Escape SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 8

Three masked hold-ups occurred in Sydney to-night, and in one instance several revolver shots were fired and a constable was wounded…

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Toll of War Empire Casualties Number 1,889,919 LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1929 · page 1

Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, permanent vice-chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, in a letter to the "Daily Telegraph," points…

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King George Beloved by Soldiers "The Old Gentleman" London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1929 · page 1

Sir George Arthur, in the biography of the King entitled "King George V., A Sketch of the Great Ruler," published by Messrs. Jonathan Cape,…

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Soldier Settlers Tumut

The Daily Express · Monday 16 September 1929 · page 2

Soldier settlers in the Tumut [?]al-[?]y have received threatening letters from the Lands Department concerning arrears and overdue payments…

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Returned Soldier Settlers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1929 · page 2

Applications from returned soldiers for home maintenance areas will be received by the Under-Secretary, Department of Lands, up to September 30…

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Rhineland Evacuation Sir W. Thwaites at War Office Programme Arranged LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 September 1929 · page 1

General Sir William Thwaites, the Commander in Chief of the British Army on the Rhine, to-day visited the War Office. It is understood that he…

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Mr. Hughes, M.H.R. Returned Soldiers' Tribute Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 6

At a meeting held at North Sydney to form a returned soldiers' league to assist Mr. Hughes, a resolution was passed to the effect that the meeting…

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Welcome Home! To Muttama Tourists

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. H. Davies and Miss Davies of "Tasma," Muttuma, returned to their home last Monday, after seven months abroad, in England,…

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Mr. Hughes As a Digger "Little Digger" Stunt an Original Anzac's Views

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 2

In a letter addressed to the editor of the "Sydney Morning Herald," "Original Anzac" writes as follows:— "As an old A.I.F. member who…

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