"Examinations Cruel to Girls" "Academic Wrecks" Mothers Should Cry "Enough" Coff's Harbor, Thurs
At the Intermediate High School speech night last night, the Principal (Mr. R. F. Hodge) described the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934
298 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 15
Teacher's Outburst Girls Made Nervous Wrecks Effect of Examinations Coff's Harbour
Another attack on the present examination system was made last night, when the Principal of the Coff's Harbour Intermediate High School (Mr. H. F. Hodge)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Twelve Dead In Tragic Mid-Atlantic Sea Drama Victims Snatched Back After Brave Rescue in Terrific Gale Lifeboat Overturned by Heavy Seas British Steamer Founders New York
Twelve lives were lost to-day in a tragic drama of the sea, enacted during a howling gale in mid-Atlantic. A lifeboat from the Belgian cargo steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seventeen Lost Drama in North Atlantic Lifeboat Overturns British Steamer Founders (Australian Press Association.) New York, December 15
Seventeen lives were lost in desperate efforts, which were made by the Belgian freighter, Jean Jadot, and the Cunard-White Star liner, Ascania, to rescue the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"A Gesture of Confidence" New Steamer Comes to Newcastle
The motorship Durham, which arrived at Newcastle to-day on her maiden voyage to Australia, under the Federal Steam Navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Schooner Prepared for Ocean Search Looking for Lost Airmen Lonely Island to Be Investigated by U.S. Navy Honolulu
Seamen to-day began reconditioning the old schooner Lanikai, which has been chartered by Mrs. Ulm to make a month's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Search Lost Pacific Fliers Two Directions Schooner to Cruise for Month (Australian Press Association.) HONOLULU, December 17
A new search in two directions for the Australian fliers, Messrs. C. T. P. Ulm, G. Littlejohn, and L. J. Skilling, who came down in the Pacific when on a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schooner's Search for Lost Airmen Starts From Honolulu To-day on Cruise Sydney
The British Consul at Honolulu has advised Mrs Ulm in Sydney that the schooner Lanakai, which she has chartered to search the Islands in the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Duke Impressed Wrecked Cities Rebuilt After Ruinous Earthquake Wellington (N.z.)
The Duke of Gloucester visited Napier and Hastings to-day, and was surprised to see the progress made in the rebuilding of those cities, which were almost completely…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wreckage Found May Be 'Plane of Ulm's Honolulu
Pieces of wood resembling parts of an aeroplane, possibly Ulm's, have been found near Nuhai Island, in the north-western…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Crew Taken Off Gallant Lifeboat Rescue Norwegian Steamer Sinks London, December 19
Early this morning all 16 members of the crew of the small Norwegian steamer Sisto, to whose help German, British and American vessels had raced through a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →State to Pay £600 for Ulm Search Charter of Schooner Month's Cruise of Islands Mrs. Ulm Relieved Sydney
The State Government has decided to pay for a month's search for Ulm and his lost companions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Help Mrs. Ulm Cost of Search Schooner Government's Decision Sydney
The State Government has decided to take over portion of the cost of the schooner which Mrs. C. T. P. Ulm chartered to make a search of her husband…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →K.L.M. Air Liner Wrecked Crashed in Storm Near Baghdad Seven Occupants All Killed Machine Reduced to Cinders: Rescue 'Planes Unable to Land (Australian Press Association.) CAIRO, December 21
Burnt to cinders, and with the crew of four and three passengers all dead, the missing Royal Dutch Air Line's Douglas machine was located to-day 250 miles from Baghdad. The position of the wreckage made it clear that the machine…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Blown Two Miles Inland
Mr. E. G. Roberts, son of Captain Roberts, of the State Navigation Department in Newcastle, is spending his furlough in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Battered Terrific Storm Wrecks Houses and Uproots Trees Dramatic Harbour Rescue
A blacksmith's shop was blown across the road at Parramatta, the roof of a house crashed on to the tramline at Five Dock and held up traffic, motor-lorries were overturned and live wires blown down, and numerous houses unroofed and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Japanese Steamer's Arrival
The Japanese steamer Yoshida Maru which was expected to arrive at Newcastle to-day to discharge timber from the Pacific Coast of America, will not make port until…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Salvagers' Hopes Dashed Refloating Ketch Narrabarba
The fishing ketch Topsy, driven ashore in a blow over a month ago is still on the beach at Nadgie Head. The crew got her off, and had her…
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