Twenty Years of Repatriation Expenditure Highlights
A Canberra report marks twenty years since Australia’s repatriation program began after the Great War. It details major outlays across pensions, education, employment schemes, medical care, vocational training, and housing, totaling about 169.9 million pounds. The minister notes a romantic achievement behind the figures as veterans gain new skills and life starts.
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Commonwealth
Department of Repwtriation
Repatriation Commission
Senator Mall
State of New South Wales
Darwin writer wins 1937 Commonwealth prize for Capricornia
Xavier Herbert, a 30 year old chemist turned laborer and explorer, won the £20 prize for the best novel published in 1937 for Capricornia set in Darwin Chronicling the Australian outback and colonial life. He describes Capricornia as a book about the land with no heroes and no heroines, only the land itself. He plans a second novel named The Old People.
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Darwin
Xavier Herbert
Commonwealth
Herbert
Arbitration Court
Port Hedland
VFA
Perth
Melbourne University
Swagihan
Native
Sydney
Tam
Capricornia
Review of The Australian Journal April Issue
The Australian Journal’s April issue features stories by Rhoden W. Up fields More and colleagues, including High Finance a humorous piece by J. P. McKinney. It also offers fashions, notes, cookery hints, knitting and children’s pages, all for sixpence. Total wartime expenditure to date is about £170,000,000 plus £27,000,000 for gratuities and land programs. Senator Fol claims Australia has stood by its service members.
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F. N. Rhoden
New Zealand
Ariiin W. ‘Up‘eld
Will D. More
Richard Eveine
G. Graham Robert Grayson
Matt, Moloney
Bond Parsons
Bery
Fol
Australia
Sydney crowd floods grounds for 150th Anniversary children show
At the Sydney Cricket Ground a 150th Anniversary children’s display drew 10 000 to 12 000 spectators. Women pressed to enter, some collapsing, as gates closed and police cleared Driver Avenue. The event featured historical pageants and dances, seen as a highlight amid a seething mass and crowding. Separate postal regulations and potato history are noted in the page.
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Sydney Cricket Ground
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Finis Sao Abe Attaciaeni Sai Eves Yen
Erenter
Spring Tyne
John Shearer & Sons Prg
Uta
George Street
Homebush
Ideal Radio
British Empire
Hadson
H.C. Dengate
Singer
Tooth Co
Reserge Cricket Ground
John Shear&r & Sons Pty.Ltd
South Australia
N.8
J. T. Robertson & Co
Manilla
Driver Avenue
iMost
Mr. Smith
Membent
England
Europe
Chili
Peru
Ireland
Sir Walter Raleigh
Youghal
County Cork
Queen Elizabeth
Royal Kitchen
Elizabeth
Sir Walter
Walter Raleigh
America
Santa Fe
John Hawkins
Frances Drake
Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd
Chateworth
Bent Street
GPO
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