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The wars & local soldiers, 1925

3,920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 196

Soldiers' Holdings

The Land · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 23

Mr. H. B. Matthews, district surveyor at Wagga, has been appointed chairman of the Soldiers Settlers' Holdings Reappraisement Board…

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CO-OPERATION. Soldier-Settlers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 3

At a meeting of soldier-settlers at Meranglo Hill, Loeton (N.S.W.) last week, it was decided that a co-operative society be formed, and that articles…

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Soldier Preference "What About the Diggers ?" Company Prosecuted

The Sun · Friday 20 February 1925 · page 8

At the Central Summons Court today Arthur Leslie Mason, of Chiltern-road, Willoughby, proceeded against the Austral Stevedoring and…

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Belmore Row Story of Shooting Wounded Man Charged

Evening News · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 6

THE story of shots at Belmore on Eight Hour Day, followed by the arrest of a man and his subsequent acquittal at the…

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Public Servants' War

Evening News · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 4

Sir,—The majority of the older civil servants quite recognise the Government's point of view that access to the Arbitration Court is not desirable in so far as it relates to Government…

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Cape Helles War Memorial

The World's News · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 12

The war memorials on the Gallipoli peninsula are now completed, and the photograph shows that which stands on Cape Helles…

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Why Cheapened War Is Favored

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 4

THE NEWS is flashed from Washington by the Cablemen that "the principal Powers have been approached by United States on the subject of a name confident" This does not mean as night perhaps be inferred that the…

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Diggers' Fight Representing Themselves. Weaving of Anzac Tweed to Be Carried On

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 2

When the work of repatriation was begun by the Victorian State War Council in 1915, returned disabled soldiers were instructed in the art of…

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Shipowners Want Industrial War Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 1

It is learned that shipowners contemplate a second application to the Arbitration Court for deregistration of…

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Blindness Being Checked Deaf-mutism Too Toll of the War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 1

There is cheering information n Part IX of the Census, now made available by the Commonwealth Statistician. It records a decrease…

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"Sack Them All" Mr. Bruxner Flatly Denies Accusation the Civil Service War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 1

Did Mr. Bruxner, leader of the Progressive Party in the State Parliament, say that if he had his way he would "sack" all public servants? Mr. Bruxner. interviewed at…

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African Bird Enlists Men to Open Beehives

The World's News · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 2

One of the cleverest birds in the world is the "honey guide"* of Africa, whichhass learned to entice men to open beehives or him…

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Bringing Into the Fold : Enlistment

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 8

Would not that be a strange fold that gathered unto its shelter, the grown sheep, and left the lambs to come to grief among the bracken and the brambles of the mountain?…

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Seamen. Returned Soldiers. Forming a New Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 18

It is understood that the Returned Soldiers' Waterside Workers' Union has taken action to form a seamen's union to operate within the State. This action is the outcome of an…

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Graves of Australian Soldiers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 18

During their recent visit to England, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stain, of Ryde, came across the graves of a number of Australian soldiers in Stourbridge Cemetery, Worcestershire,…

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Preference. Returned Soldiers on Wharfs. Case Against Stevedores

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 18

The hearing was commenced by Mr. Gates, S.M., at the Central Summons Court yesterday, of a case which will test the right of members of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors'…

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H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA. The Sinking at Sea. Soldiers Cite the Mikasa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 17

The question whether the H.M.A.S. Australia should have been scrapped was raised at a meeting of the State Executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League,…

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Returned Soldier's Death

The Sun · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 8

John Henry May, formerly a member of the 30th BatL, A.I.F., died In the Randwlck Military Hospital yesterday. As the result of gun shot wounds…

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Some Soldier

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 22

HARRY LINDSAY, R.S.M. of the 47th was an ex-R.A.A. man and a real soldier. He brought home an M.C. to prove that he was also a good…

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Preference Returned Soldiers Test Case Brought

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1925 · page 4

The Austral Stevedoring and Lighterage Company was proceeded against in the Central Summons Court yesterday for allegedly not…

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