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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954

33 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

Drink Great Home Wrecker

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE: Matrimony is not something to rush into in the teenage years, the president of the Queensland…

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Wreckage Of Plane In Mountains

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Forestry Commission workers on Mt. Disappointment yesterday found a wrecked Wirraway training…

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To Seek Gold From Wreck

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 August 1954 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N. Z.): A group of young men in Dunedin plans to make another attempt to recover the fabulous…

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The Wrecking of an Organisation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 September 1954 · page 10

The following are the views of Mr. H. MeCurrie, of Gungal, who points out, how anyone can wreck a worthy local…

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How to wreck a worthy local body

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 September 1954 · page 4

The following are the views of Mr. H. McCurrie, of Gungal who points out how anyone can wreck a…

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Flood Threatens African Quake Wrecked Area More Than 1000 People Killed In North African Horror

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 1

ALGIERS: A terror-tinged threat of a flood disaster, posed by the damaged walls of the Oued Fodde Dam—North Africa’s biggest—is adding ominous undertones to the Algerian earthquake horror in which at least 1100 people are feared killed with 5000 to 6000 others injured, and many thousands homeless…

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The Wrecking of an Organisation

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 2

The following are the views of Mr. H. McCurrie, of Gungal, who points out how anyone can wreck a worthy…

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Lifeboat Rescues

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 1

LONDON: British lifeboats in the first nine months of this year saved the lives of 366 people—15 more than in the…

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The Passing Scene Littered With Wreckage Of Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 2

The passing scene of highway history in N.S.W. is not a pleasant one. It is littered with the accumulated wreckage of forty years of accidents. It is strewn with the bodies of more than 10,000 killed…

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Bomb Wrecks Building

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 November 1954 · page 1

LONDON: A wartime bomb wrecked a building in High Holborn, London, yesterday, and severely injured two men…

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17 Thought Trapped: Divers Locate Main Wreckage Of Plane

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: Drivers yesterday located the main wreckage of an Italian DC-6 airliner in which the bodies of 17 victims are believed trapped Groping in the icy waters of…

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War Wrecks Blown Up By Danes

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 8

COPENHAGEN: Five hundred World War II wrecks have now been blown up in Danish waters, this Danish…

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Water Short In’ Quake Wrecked City

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 1

EUHAHA, (California): A [?] courtage threatened this sea coast city of 25,000 persons yesterday in the wake of…

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