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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
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Golf is to be restored to its pre-war standard in Riverina this year. The annual championships, suspended in 1942, will be revived; tournaments will be held by the various clubs, and there is a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Sunday: Because they were (Iran work on what is normally a rest afternoon, more than 300 soldiers among the 1500 British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No lands have yet been allocated to returned servicemen under soldier settlement agreements, said the Minister for Post-war Reconstruction Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr Martin Mcllrath was the donor who was prepared to make available to the State Government a property of about 5893 acres owned by him in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CPL. OWEN O'CALLAGHAN (NX81860) for official purposes has been presumed killed in action, on December 19, 1942,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →For the second time this year the Boree Creek Patriotic Committee, the Greenvale C.W.A., the Faithful and Boree Creek Red Cross Societies, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WITH two such worthy causes as the Nurses' Memorial and Ambulance benefiting, the public of Leeton and district can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia was the secret war-time strong-room in which the gold and bullion of many countries were locked away beyond enemy reach. A hint of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Monday: A denial that a mutiny among Italian prisoners of war was threatened at Rowville Detention Camp, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WHEn the members of the Yanco Agricultural High School Council arrived at the school for a regular and annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads were being ruthlessly ripped up by farmers driving their tractors and machinery over them, said the shire president (Councillor Struck) at the recent meeting of the Leeton Shire Council. On one occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More than 500 personal letters had been sent to owners of big properties asking them to make available to the Government land for soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brigadier Ivan Dougherty was selected on Thursday night as Liberal Party candidate for East Sydney against the Minister for Transport,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Martin Mcllrath was the donor who was prepared to make available to the State Government a property of about 5,793 acres owned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday: "Polish terrorists shot nine members of the Red Army whom they threw from a train at Czastary, a small station…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday: Australian soldiers brought back from Lae and Rabaul in the ship Winchester Victory to-day claimed that other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CPL. Kelven O'Connell, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. O'Connell, of Farm 753, Leeton, is one of the troops selected to go to London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When the Ourrawarna and District Welcome Home Committee entertained 24 servicemen of the district at a presentation dance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday: A British soldier who was captured in Crete in June, 1941, is alleged to have aided the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Rosewood Hall was packed to its utmost capacity last Friday night, when over 300 district residents assembled to extend a…
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