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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

41 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 3

Wrecked Plane Believed to Be Kittyhawk

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sun: Police and RAAF authorities believe the plane wreckage found near Walhalla, Gippsland, last week, is…

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Wrecked Plane [?] by American

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues: [?] wreckage found near [?] in Gippsland has been [?] as a Kittyhawk of the [?]…

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Seven Dead Found by Wrecked Plane

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

COLFAX (California), Wed.: An Air Force C47 transport plane based at Ogden (Utah) crashed and burned in the…

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Mr. Hollway. Accused of Wrecking Price Control Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 3

MR. A. FRASER, Labor M.H.R. for Eden-Monaro, in a broadcast to-night, said the Victorian Premier (Mr. Hollway) was “playing the wrecker” in the administration of price control…

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Wrecked Plane on Side of Volcano

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

HONOLULU, Monday: A Coastguard plane sighted the wreckage of an aeroplane on the western slope of erupting Mauna Loa volcano…

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Seaman May Have Swum Ashore

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

HOBART, Tues.: Naval authorities believe able seaman John Dowdle, 21, of NSW, who disappeared from the sloop Warrego…

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Captain Alleges Attempt to Wreck Freighter

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—An attempt to wreck the interstate freighter Kooralya just after she left Melbourne last month was…

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£50,000 Fire Wrecks Griffith Rice Mill

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

At least £50.000 damage was done to stocks and machinery in a fire at Australian Rice Mill Pty. Ltd.’s mill in Banna…

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OnIy Two Survivors After Coastal Steamer Sinks Off Wollongong Several Bodies Sighted From Catalinas Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

IT is believed that there are only two survivors of the crew of 14 aboard the coastal steamer Bombo (540 tons), which sank off Wollongong about 10 o’clock last night. Two other bodies have been recovered by the police. They are believed to be the captain…

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Further Wreckage From Bombo

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Fri.: Further wreckage from s.s. Bombo was washed up along the coast today, but there is no…

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Items of News New Murray Steamer

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 2

Murray Valley Coaches announce that plans have been approved for the construction of a new vessel to replace the paddle…

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Pleasure Paddle Steamer to Replace ''Murrumbidgee''

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

Murray Valley Coaches Limited announce that plans have been approved for the construction of a new vessel to replace the…

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“Reds Wrecking Arbitration System”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Communist-led section of the trade union movement was making a mockery of the arbitration…

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40 Die When Steamer Hits Mine

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 March 1949 · page 1

HONG KONG, Fri.: Forty persons were killed and an unknown number were injured when the British-registered…

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Plane Wrecked on Mountain-side

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

TOKIO, Mon.: Two American rescue teams are climbing Mt. Full through a snowstorm to reach the wreckage of a B.26…

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Steamer Disabled

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs.: When she lost her propeller in Florida Straits about 50 miles south-west of Key West, the 4800-ton Greek…

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Internal Squabbling May Wreck Labor, Victorian Leader Warns MELBOURNE, Monday

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 April 1949 · page 1

A WARNING that the Labor Party would find itself “on the way out” if internal squabbling continued was given by the leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party (Mr. J. Cain) at the A.L.P. conference today. Mr. Cain said the party was…

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Crew off Schooner Lost

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 7

GOOSE BAY (Labrador), Thurs: Hope of rescuing the crew of 25 of the Danish schooner, Ebba, faded last night when a widespread air…

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Accuses Ministers Of Character Wrecking CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 3

THE Government was improperly and unreasonably restricting the rights of private members an d the electors they represented by of its majority, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Menzies) said the House of Representatives to-day…

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Football Notes Deniliquin’s Murray League Rout Completed by Numurkah Blue and Gold’s 96 Point Thrashing Wrecks “Four” Hopes

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 2

DENILIQUIN’S flimsy hopes of clinching a place in the Murray League “four” were completely shattered on Saturday when Numurkah, yards faster and in all ways far superior, over whelmed the Blue and Golds by 16 goals…

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