For the Heads? Provident Funds and Private Companies Avoiding War-Time Taxation?
In the House of Representatives, Mr A. Fuller, "Member for Hume, asked the Treasurer whether or not there was evidence of a growing…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
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Wagga War Effort V.d.c. Camp Week-end Activities Exercises at Williams Hill
There was a big influx of troops into the Volunteer Defence Force, 17th Battalion camp at the Wagga racecourse on Saturday and Sunday, scores…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Kinds of Landing Craft Amphibious War As It Is Fought In These Modern Times
SINCE the black days of 1940, when Hitler was making ready to invade England, tremendous advances have been made in the designing of all kinds of craft for amphibious warfare. In 1940 Hitler planned to rely chiefly on Rhine barges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Meeting
A special general meeting of the Wagga sub-branch of the RSSAILA will be held at the Soldiers' Hall tonight at 8 o'clock for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Muttama Gives a Party Soldiers Entertained
Muttama's warm hearted and spontaneous hospitality was extended to a very big crowd which patronised the village on Friday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welcome Home Social to Discharged Members of the Forces
THE Leeton Patriotic Committee is arranging the Civic Welcome Home to members of the fighting forces who have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daily War Diary
The Russians have captured Kherson, at the mouth of the Dnieper river. Bombing or Western Germany still…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Car Demand After War
"America will want 12,000,000 motor cars immediately after the war and will begin trotting them within six or eight months of the declaration of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Restrictions to Go After the War
Restrictive regulations need during the war would be removed as soon as possible after peace, the Minister for War Organisation of Industry, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga War Effort Vad Meeting To-night
The weekly meeting of members of the VAD will be held at the Drill Hall at 7.30 to-night when it is hoped there will be a full attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.s. and Australia Post-war Reconstruction
NEW YORK, Sun. (AAP): Professor Brigden, financial counsel of the Australian Legation, told a meeting of the Carnegie Endowment Trust for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers' Clubs Splendid War-time Record
THE annual report of the Junior Farmers Clubs' Council for the year ending February 4, 1944, contains many pleasing features…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Loan Committee Organising for First Victory Loan
A meeting of the Narandera and District. War Loan Committee was held at the Council Chambers on Friday afternoon last, there, being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parliament Yass-Canberra Line Not in Post-war Plans
The Commonwealth Government does not regard the constitution of a railway linking Canberra with Yass as an urgent work, although…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War News Russians Capture Kherson Mouth of Dnieper Occupied
The Red Army has captured Kherson, at the mouth of the Dnieper River, 20 miles from the Black Sea, an important grain and railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yanco Progress Assn. Visualises Post War Expansion Acquires Town Reserve
WITH roseate visions of the future, when the population of the village of Yanco will have risen far beyond its present limits as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Air Force will Challenge the Luftwaffe 30 TO 60 Days Should Decide Air War
LONDON, Monday: It is learned in London that it may be desirable and practicable, when conditions change, for the use in day raids of R.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Soldier Speaks
So you're sick of the way the country's run, And you're sick of the way the rationing's done,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conversion of Settlement Purchases And Soldiers' Group Purchases Into Leases In Perpetuity
The Minister for Lands, Mr. Tully, states that the Closer Settlement Amendment (Conversion) Act, 1943, which provides for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Competition for Flats Australian Soldiers Turned Out
SYDNEY, Mon.: Declaring that more severe punishment should be meted out "to fit the crime," the general secretary of the NSW Co-operative…
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