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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

2 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Three Killed in Week-end Hawkesbury Tragedies Hurled Into Eternity Tragic 'Plane Crash at Cornwallis Well-known Hawkesbury Farmer Killed Pilot and Mechanic Dragged From Burning Wreckage

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 1

DEATH came suddenly from the sky in awful form on Monday to Mr. Albert Charles Smith (51), a well-known Hawkesbury farmer, who was killed instantly when an aeroplane dived on top of him while he was chipping weeds on his cultivation at Cornwallis, a few miles from Windsor…

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Mystic Art Found Cathedral Cave in North West of Australia Were Glenelg Drawings of Wrecked Spaniards?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 November 1929 · page 12

DISCOVERY of unique aboriginal rock drawings and sketches in the North West indicate that there is a great unexplored field in the…

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