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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Boy Wounded in School Room

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A revolver bullet which was fired in a classroom at the Naremburn Intermediate High School this afternoon…

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Ashbridge Great Tribute to Service Personnel Welcome Home Banquet and Presentation of Certificates of Service

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

A great gathering which included practically the total population of Ashbridge, with representatives from Ganmain…

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Coolamon Welcome of Home Banquet April 29th NEXT

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

Arrangements are well in hand for Coolamon’s Welcome Homo Banquet in service personnel on April 29th. The committee has found it possible to issue…

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Shooting Accident Near Wagga Griffith Man Critically Wounded

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

Thomas Rule, aged 22 years, of Carrathool street, Griffith, is in the Wagga Base Hospital in a critical condition following an accident…

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War in China

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

CHUNGKING, Thursday: Reuter's correspondent reports that the Communists have been engaged in an all-out offensive against the…

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Anzac Day March Ex-servicemen to Form Up with Their Divisions

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

ON Monday night last a meeting called by the Leeton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers Sailors and Airmen's League of…

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War Casualty Private Ralph Dixon Presumed Dead

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

Mr. J. Dixon, of Manly, formerly of Narandera, has received a communication from the military authorities stating that Private Ralph Dixon, who…

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State Member Thanked War Work for Citrus Growers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 4

MEMBER for Murrumbidgee, (Mr. A. G. Enticknap, M.L.A.), was thanked in Sydney last week by citrus growers of the State…

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Proposed War Memorial (To the Editor of the Coolamon Ganmain Review,)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

Sir—Referring to Your report under the heading “Proposed War Memorial.” which appeared in the Review [?] 5th inst.—from the report it may…

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More Soldiers' Wives Leaving for America

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Victorian, Tasmanian and South Australian wives of U.S. servicemen reached Sydney to-day on the first stage of…

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Soldiers' Votes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday: Australian troops in Japan would be given facilities to vote at the next election, said the Minister for the…

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More War Brides Leave Australia for America

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 1

Wives and children of American servicemen are shown on the troopship David C. Shanks on their way to join their husbands in the United States. From left, they are: Mrs. Audrey Goodman and her son Robert, going from newcastle to Boston: Mrs. Pauline vallejo and son Paul, aged 10 months, going from Sydney to Florida; and Mrs. Margaret Esslabre and son Eddie, aged 15 months, going from Auburn to Detroit…

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Soldiers Fined at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 2

Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, J.P. two soldiers were charged yesterday with indecent language and offensive behavior in Baylis street…

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Arrangements for Anzac Day Details Of Celebrations In Gundagai

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 2

The Thursday after Easter, April 25th, is Anzac Day. This year the day will have a greater significance than heretofore, as it is the first Anzac Day to he held since the close of World War II. In Gundagai special arrangements…

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Atomic Energy and War

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 5

In 1808 Dalton put forward the atomic theory. In 1896 Becquerrel discovered radio activity in pitch- blende, a mineral containing uranium. In 1898 the Curies isolated radium from pitchblende. Rutherford subsequently described…

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Australian War Brides Seek Divorces

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 1

S A N FRANCISCO. Sunday (A.A.P.): Two divorces among Australian war brides who arrived last week aboard the Lurline have been…

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German Population Increased by 4,500,000 in War

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON. Sunday (A.A.P.): Hitler lost the war in an effort to make a greater Germany but succeeded in leaving Germany larger by…

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Primary Producers’ Increased During the War Government Asks More Power To Control Marketing

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 1

“The income of primary producers has greatly increased during the war years,”' said the Attorne-General, Dr. Evatt, during his…

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Help Every Applicant Soldier Settlement Regulations

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 4

Regulations which governed the classification committee under the War Service Land Settlement Act were designed to help every soldier…

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Urangeline Third Welcome Home

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 1

The Urangeline Peace Hall was the scene of a packed house on March 29. The hall, gaily decorated with flags, bunting and flowers, added…

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