Costly "Schooner"
Charles Keith Roberts (35), was fined 20/ and ordered to pay 1/ compensation, at the Wollongong Police Court yesterday, on a charge of maliciously…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945
8 stories in Illawarra's papers
Change of Schooner Hours Opposed
Final replies from the circular sent to district trade unions by the Illawarra Trades and Labour Council on the request of the U.L.V.A., for an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reinforcements Go Ashore at Leyte
American troops make their way down the catwalks of a landing craft and wade waist-deep in water, toward a beach on Leyte, to reinforce the U.S. and Philippine forces already fighting the Japanese on this Island in the central Philippines. Some of the soldiers have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Graphic Story Shipwrecked Man Found at Kiama
A graphic, story, told in intermittent and often almost incoherent tones to the Kiama Police, came from a man who was found under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipwreck Story Man Charged With Vagrancy
There was a very prosaic sequel on Saturday last to the shipwreck yarn which had so excited the City press on the previous day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Shipwrecked Sailor" Is Anchored
When it comes to getting around and seeing places, Bernard Hudson Matheson, a 20-years-old labourer, who appeared at the Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwreck Impostor Sent To Gaol
One of the most amazing stories ever related in Wollongong Curt was that told last Monday when Bernard Hudson Matheson, 21 year…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australians go Ashore on Borneo
A U.S. Navy-manned landing craft carries Australians toward the bombed, smoking shore of Sadau, small island six miles northwest of Tarakan, off the east coast of Burneo, on April 29, 1945. The next day, Australian troops, transported and supported…
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