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The wars & local soldiers, 1949

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Football Selectors Unwise in Choice of Teams to Meet Grenfell on Sunday Next Proved Winger, Bill Gardiner To Play As Centre Important Group Nine Competition Fixture on Anzac Park

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 8

On Anzac Park next Sunday, Gundagai will meet Grenfell in the Group Nine competition fixture. The result of these matches…

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Gundagai’s War Memorial --Where? When? Possibilities of Stone Building in Sheridan Street Being Investigated Interested Organisations to Make a Decision This Week

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 1

THE BUILDING OF THE GUNDAGAI DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL PRESENTS A PROBLEM TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS IT DOES TO THE WAR MEMORIAL COMMITTEE AND THE ORGANISATIONS DIRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE ERECTION…

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Boer War Veteran Dies

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 4

A Boer war veteran, rifle shot, bushman and prospector, Mr. Joseph William Barnes who died in the Temora District Hospital on Wednesday…

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Threat of War Blunt Statements in the U.s

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday — Testifying before the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, the Secretary of…

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Dangers to Our Way of Living When War Eliminated Then Follows Communism

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 1

(A.A.P.) WASHINGTON Friday Admiral Blandy' said that until the day came when war as a means of settling international…

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'Atom Bomb Not Absolute War Winner'

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

Admiral Blandy, chief of the joint United States task force at the Bikini atom bomb tests, declared recently…

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Gundagai’s War Memorial Red Cross and C.W.A. Favor Original Site

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 1

Two of the organisations interested in the construction of the Gundagai War Memorial, the Red Cross Society and the Country Women’s Association, aye in favor of the building being constructed on the site originally selected, that is, adjacent to the Gundagai…

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War "Near"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 1

BOLOGNA, Monday: Italys former Foreign Minister (Pietro Nenni). leader of the pro-Communist Italian Socialist Party,…

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Says Australia Is Preparing for War

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1949 · page 1

Mr R. Dixon, president of the Australian Communist Party, slated recently in a Czecho-slovak newspaper that the…

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Post-war Developments in Fighter Planes

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 2

Development of jet propelled planes has progressed further in Britain than in any country. This statement was recently…

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Rabbits Out Of Control On Wantabadgery Soldier Settlement “If Something Not Done Settlers Will Walk Off Blocks Before Another Two Years” Says Rabbit Inspector P.P. Board’s Request To The Lands Department

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 1

THE rabbit pest has taken such a hold on the Wantababadgery Soldier Settlement that at Tuesday’s meeting of the Gundagai Pastures Protection Board, Rabbit Inspector J. Smith stated that if something was not done soon to suppress the infestation, then the settlers would walk off their blocks within the next two years…

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War Service Homes Maximum Loan Increased

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 3

The maximum loan available under the War Service Homes Scheme has recently been Increased by the Commonwealth…

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Soldiers Break Coal Output Record

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: In the Muswellbrook open-cut mines, soldiers today broke the production record of 2500 tons of coal in a day by regular miners. The soldiers' output in 20 hours crushed and loaded,…

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Soldiers in Underground Mines Would Be "Casualties", Says Speaker in Domain

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A miner of 30 years' standing told a Communist meeting in the Domain today that if soldiers went down to work underground mines, most' of them would be carried out as casualties. He was Mr. Bill Steers, a miner of John Darling Colliery who warned that…

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Returned Soldiers' Hall Officially Opened by State President

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 1

There was a very fair attendance of ex-servicemen and other residents at the newly erected returned soldiers' hall on Friday afternoon last…

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"Greatest War Risk-Lure of Easy Conquest"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): "The pressure of large military forces, maintained in readiness at all times behind the Iron Curtain, is the 'club in the closet, of every Communist Government in Europe,…

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Rabbit Position So Serious That Wantabadgery Soldier Settlers Could Be Forced Off Within 2 Years

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 7

THE RABBIT PEST HAS TAKEN SUCH A HOLD ON THE WANTABADGERY SOLDIER SETTLEMENT THAT AT THE LAST MEETING OF THE GUNDAGAI PASTURES PROTECTION BOARD, RABBIT INSPECTOR J. SMITH SAID THAT…

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Bourke Shield Final on Sunday Main Fixture or Anzac Park

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 8

The replay of the Bourke Shield final, between Nangus and Adjungbilly will be the main fixture on Anzac Park on Sunday next, and will…

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Another Sports Oval at Anzac Park? Shire to Investigate Proposal

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 8

The urgent need for a second sports oval at Anzac Park was stressed by Cr L. K. Foley at last Tuesday’s meeting of the…

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Brungle’s War Memorial To Be Unveiled Next Week

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 1

The ceremony of the unveiling of the Brungle War Memorial is set down for 3 p.m. on Saturday August 20th…

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