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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
4,144 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 208
THE reprieve from restrictions on the use of water on the Murrumbidgee irrigation area, which came because mid-summer rains swelled the Burrinjuck storage to a point where safety is assured, has not minimised the determination of irrigationists and other water-users…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TO keep the local list up-to-date, will people enlisting for any of the Defence Forces, please forward immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine soldiers, on final leave, were farewelled at two functions last week. Owing to their departure being arranged for Saturday, Corporal T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday [?]last, in the Tooyal Hall, many of the friends of Pte. Ray Harris ass[?]to say farewell, extend their good wishes and make [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sergt. W. Fyke, of the A.I.F., after spending several weeks at Hey on special duty, arrived In Coolamon on Wednesday night and left again by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Following on the successful action at Bardia the Government announced the decision to inform relatives by telegram. It was said to be based on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Prime Minister (Mr. Winston Churchill) making a statement in the House of Commons on manpower and production, submitted to the House…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Defence production will be held up by a strike of 200 workers at the Clyde Engineering Works, Granville. which began to-night. If the strike continues about 400…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Supply (Mr. Holt) said to-day that if the Cabinet decided that the inability of munitions workers and others engaged In vital defence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australia's first task was to concentrate on its resources in skilled men in the war effort. Any departure from that would be a diminution of the war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Attlee) said that the Government was aware of the importance of securing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lieut-General Sturdee, Chief of the Australian General Staff, said that the chief significance of the Imperial Army's success in Libya was that it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reference was made to a letter in Thursday's issue of "The Daily Advertiser," signed by "Civic Pride," at the meeting of the Wagga Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Despatch Rider Thos. Wm. Sherrin, son of Mr. Thomas Sherrin of Argalong and brother of Mrs Jas. Broughton, Gadara, was killed in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The capture of Tobrak is of greater military importance than the capture of Bardia because it clears the way for a British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over a remote 15 mile stretch of the Surrey-Sussex boarder they are now cutting the "small wood" for the world's best walking sticks. Shrewd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The leader of the Non-Communist Labor Party in the Federal Parliament (Mr. Beasley) charged the Federal Government with withholding the information about the war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Prisoners of War, Wounded and Missing Organisation has the most encouraging system that the war has ever known. It takes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Recruiting is now being carried out by quota system. That is a certain number is required each month to fill establishments, and preference is given…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain continues in the midst of war to send pedigree livestock across the seas to several remote corners of the world to the value of £100,000 a…
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