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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Soldier Settlement of the Land Three Schemes

The Bega District News · Monday 11 November 1946 · page 4

The Minister for Lands (the Hon. W. F. Dunn, M.L.A.) states: “Initial difficulties associated with soldier settlement have been largely overcome. “The capacity of industry to turn out the material necessary…

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Points From the Budget Speech Large Post-War Obligations

The Bega District News · Monday 18 November 1946 · page 1

“In the fifteen months since hostilities ceased the Australian war organisation has largely been dismantled. Some 520,000 men and Women have been released from the Services, and practically all these, besides some hundreds of thousands of people…

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“Face the Facts” Industry’s Post-War Problems Demand Realistic Approach

The Bega District News · Monday 18 November 1946 · page 3

“We have to face the facts as they are and not as we would like them to be,” said the Hon. Hamilton Knight, Minister for Labour and “Industry and Social Welfare, addressing leaders of the Building Industry in Sydney. He continued: “It is an…

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100 ALDERMEN - Two Were Soldiers Presentation of Life Membership to R.S.L. Worker

The Shoalhaven and Nowra News · Wednesday 20 November 1946 · page 2

It was a striking fact that in the last 26 years in Nowra, with nine municipal elections and more than 100 aldermen…

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War Wound Pension Keeps Nigel Bruce on London Club Roster

The Bega District News · Thursday 5 December 1946 · page 4

Although absent from England for a decade, Nigel Bruce, starred in Universal’s “Dressed to kill,” and other Sherlock Holmes pictures, still retains…

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V.D.C. Men To Be Recognised Recognised Diggers’ League To Erect Honour Roll

The Shoalhaven and Nowra News · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 10

The names of all men who served with the Volunteer Defence Corps in this area during World War II. will be suitably inscribed on a special Honour Roll Board to be installed in the Nowra Diggers’ Hall…

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