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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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£160,000,000 War & Conversion Second Victory Loan Recommended Without Reservation

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 30 September 1944 · page 2

Money mast be found still to finance Austratia's share in the war. Fortunately, there is a way to provide it. open to everybody, which is as…

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Bowral Soldier is Against Memorials Would Prefer Baths for Bowral

The Southern Mail · Friday 13 October 1944 · page 2

Pte. R. J. Douglas, of Bowral, writing from a battle station, condemns the erection of "memorials" and advocates the…

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War Agricultural Committee Members Treated " Like Dummies"

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 October 1944 · page 2

A claim that the authorities had treated members of war agricultural committees like a lot of duminies's was made in the Legislative…

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Soldier Settlement

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 October 1944 · page 4

Emphasis on the need to restrict soldier settlement to opportunities for successful farming rather than to…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) There's Something About Black Parachute About a Soldier

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 3

There's Something About a Soldier is a love story only a soldier's sweet-heart can tell. It is the sort of vivid and timely story that strikes a…

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Women's Work for the Soldiers What Bowral W.V.S. Did Last Year

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 2

There was a remarkably good attendance at the annual meeting ol Bowral Women's Voluntary Service last week, and the audience listened to…

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Soldiers' Comforts

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 3

Wool purchased and knitted by the W.V.S. for the A.C.F. would reach 196,000 miles. Razer baldes purchased cost no lest…

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Women in the Post-War World

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 November 1944 · page 2

In the post-war world women will take a more knowledgeable interest in the economic structure of Australia, and wield a greater social and political…

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Soldiers Poppy Day Appeal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 November 1944 · page 2

" In Flanders fields the popples blow, Between the crosses row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly…

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War Map

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 2

The Australian Motorists Petrol Co. Ltd. soon after the outbreak of war in 1939, published a war map of Europe. Many tens of thousands…

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A Dog Goes to War

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 3

As determined as General MacArthur to lake part ia the Philippines landing was Sack, the yellow-and-white dog of Transport 171…

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Where the Money Goes 268 Special War-time Authorities

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 18 November 1944 · page 4

Mr. George W. Watkins. of the Australian Country Party, writes:—At a time when the wheat, oats and cereal and fodder position has…

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Post-War Migration Me. Fadden's Proposal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 December 1944 · page 3

The Commonwealth Government will consider the ouggestion previously advanced by the Leader of the Australian country Party (Mr. Fadden)…

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Soldier Settlement. Markets for Primary Products Vill

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 2 December 1944 · page 4

The need to hold the scales be that they would be evenly balanced between land settlement and the markets which…

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Get It Over! War Savings Mean War Finish

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 December 1944 · page 4

The march of events in recent months has made it abundantly clear that we have passed the stage when' planning for victory was a mere…

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