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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940

6 stories in South Coast's papers

Accidents Still Wrecking Homes. (Issued by the Road Safety Council)

The Bega District News · Monday 22 July 1940 · page 1

In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the…

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Accidents Still Wrecking Homes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The South Coast Register · Thursday 25 July 1940 · page 6

In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of…

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Old Time Wreck. (From the Eden paper.)

The Bega District News · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 3

Sir.—I read with interest Cr Taylor’s reference to the stranding of the schooner Ellen on Tathra beach some years ago, at the switching on…

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Launch Wrecked at Red Head

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 16 October 1940 · page 13

Mr. Chris Muller, of Sussex Inlet, certainly had an unlucky day on Sunday last, when about 4.30 p.m. his 23ft. launch, which was riding at…

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Transferred to Wreck Bay

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 25 December 1940 · page 14

All will regret to learn (says the Moruya “Examiner”) that after about 27 years in charge of the Mission Station at Wallaga Lake,' Mr. and…

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Steamer Freights County Council Protest

The Bega District News · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 1

At Bega Valley County Council when a letter was read from the Illawarra and South Coast Steamship Co., notifying an increase of 10 per…

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