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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

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Launch Wrecked. Journalist Believed Drowned

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 2

Geoffrey Jacoby, a well-known journalist, is believed to have been drowned when a 25-ton launch was wrecked at Catherine Hill Bay early…

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Federal Politics. (Issued by the Federal National Parliamentary Party.) Check-mating Industrial Wreckers. Canberra, 361929

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 June 1929 · page 2

The position for the past 25 years since the first Arbitration Act was passed in 1904, by a Labor Administration, is that of divided authority…

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Slanderers. Profess to Be Christians. Home-wreckers

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 June 1929 · page 12

"I've got no time for gossips, slanderers of character, and tale-bearers. Sydney, unfortunately, is full of them. They seem to have a free license to…

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The Wrecker

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 7

Deliberately the man eyed the train with cunning calculation as it raced from the tunnel and swayed along the track of gleaming metals towards him…

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Steamer Runs Short of Coal

The Northern Champion · Saturday 6 July 1929 · page 4

The French steamer "Comandant Destremau," which ran short of coal, was refuelled yesterday by the steamer Belbowrie off Seal Rocks, after which…

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The Wreckers

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 August 1929 · page 3

In pursuance of their seeming policy of wrecking the Empire, the new British Government to all interests and purposes is going to evacuate Egypt;…

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Wreckers & Builders. What the Reds Have Done Stemming the Tide of Betterment

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 30 August 1929 · page 8

We still frequently come across the man who says that in Australia Communist activity is not a reality, and revolution is not a possibility…

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Wrecker's Problem

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 2

The Melbourne "Argus," in its leading columns, says:— "Mr. Hughes, who framed the amendment, will not find his…

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Steamer Ashore Pappinbarra Driven Ashore Near Port Stephens

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 8

Driven on the rocks near Port Stephens outer lighthouse shortly before dawn on Wednesday morning by a raging east-south-easterly gale,…

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Steamer Pappinbarra Ashore. Off Point Stephens

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 4

The well-known steamer Pappinbarra, which left Port Macquarie on Tuesday, met with the full force of the south-east cyclone which has…

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Coaster Ashore

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 September 1929 · page 4

The coastal steamer, Pappinbarra, owned by the N. Cains Coastal Coy., trading between Port Macquarie and Sydney, went ashore on the rocks near…

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Ketch Wrecked. Mishap Near Kempsey

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 18 September 1929 · page 4

Bound from Sydney to Derby (W.A.; to investigate the iron ore deposits on the north-west coast of Australia for the Australian Iron and Steel Company,…

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Steamer Pappinbarra

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 4

Captain Merritt made the following statement in reference to the wreck of the Pappinbarra:— The steamer left Port Macquarie…

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Bravery Recognised. Royal Shipwreck Society Presentations

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 4 October 1929 · page 1

A large crowd attended the 52nd annual meeting of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of New South Wales, which was held…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. Before Judge Edwards and Captain H. Tyrer and Alex McRae, assessors. Wreck of the Steamer Pappinbarra. Captain Exonerated. Sydney, Friday, Oct. 4

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 9 October 1929 · page 6

The steamer Pappinbarra, trading between Sydney and Port Macquarie, left the latter port at 11.30 a.m. on September 10, bound for Sydney. The…

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The Fire King's Wreck

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 9 October 1929 · page 1

Quite recently the last vestige of the boiler of the paddle steamer."Five King" crumbled away on the beach near Crowdy Head. She was wreeked in…

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Marine Inquiry. on Wreck of Pappinbarra. Captain Exonerated. (Before Judge Edwards and Captain H. Tyrer and Alex. McRae, assessors)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 October 1929 · page 4

The steamer Pappinbarra, trading between Sydney and Port Macquarie, left the latter port at 11.30 a.m. on September 10, bound for Sydney. The…

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The "Fire King's" Wreck

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 1

Quite recently the last vestiges of the boiler of the paddle steamer "Fire King" crumbled away on the beach near Crowdy Head. She was wrecked…

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'Plane Dives Into Surf. Pilot Crawls Ashore Through Breakers

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 30 October 1929 · page 4

Pilot Spinks, flying from Cessnock to Brisbane in a Moth plane, was at tempting to make a forced landing on the beach at Coff's Harbor on…

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The Bremen. World's New Wonder Steamer Faster Than Trains. Champion of the Atlantic

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 1 November 1929 · page 1

"We're creeping on with each new new rig, Less weight and greater power; We'll hae the loco poiler next…

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