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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934

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Schooner for Sale

The Sun · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 3

"The schooner Isobel will be offered for sale," said the owner (Mr. W. H. Weeks) when asked to-day what his plans were now that the goods seized…

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No Customs Action. Undeclared Goods on Schooner Isabel

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 4

It is reported that the Customs authorities do not Intend to take any action against Mr. W. H. Weeks, owner of the visiting schooner Isabel, which…

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Seized Goods To be Returned to Owner. Schooner Isabel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 16

The goods that were seized by Customs officers when the schooner Isabel arrived in port last month are to be handed back to the owner…

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Salaries Reduction Act May Wreck Stevens Ministry Back-breaking Burden of Civil Servants Pressure Exerted On Premier Government's Obligation to Mr. Hartigan

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 11

PARTLY inspired by the injustice under which N.S. Wales Civil Service is suffering, but no doubt also prompted by the hundreds of Public servants among their constituents, metropolitan members of the U.A.P…

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Made Millions, Spent Millions, Wrecked Lives Of Women and Wrecked France

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1934 · page 18

NEVER before in the crowded history of fraudulent finance have the vast schemes of swindling conceived and…

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Schooner for Sale. The Adventurous Isabel

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 19 February 1934 · page 5

It is announced by Mr. L. J. Weeks, son of the owner, that the schooner Isabel will be put up for sale by auction shortly. The vessel is a…

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Marine Insurance. Case of General Average. Hit Pier to Save Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 20 February 1934 · page 3

Before the Admiralty Division recently the Pool Shipping Company Limited sued the Northern Maritime Insurance Company Limited for…

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Abandoned Ship. Schooner Towed to Colombo

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 5

The steamer Jalapalaka recently towed into Colombo an abandoned schooner which had been found adrift off the Little Basses, with a full and…

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Died on Steamer Adelaide

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 12

After a short illness, Mr. William Ford, 68, retired, of Sydney, died suddenly on the steamer Ballarat at Outer Harbor to-day. Mr. Ford…

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Ships Collide. Coaster and Pilot Steamer. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 13

A collision occurred between the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's steamer Cobaki and the relieving pilot steamer John Oxley off Cape Moreton about 7.55 o'clock last…

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Ambulance Met Steamer Patient Taken From Pt. Kembla to Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--Landing at Port Kembla this morning. Frederick Turnbull, suffering severely from blood poisoning, was met…

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Marine Insurance. Case of General Average Hit Pier to Save Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 8

Before the Admiralty Division recently the Pool Shipping Company Limited sued the Northern Maritime Insurance Company Limited for…

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Old Middlesbrough Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 22 February 1934 · page 5

One of the oldest vessels built at Middlesbrough, the iron, screw steamer Viola, has recently been sold to Captain A. Ingemausson for about…

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Brisbane Pilot Steamer. Collides With Coaster

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 22 February 1934 · page 5

Hazy weather off Cape Morton was the cause of the relieving pilot steamer John Oxley colliding with the North Coast Steam Navigation…

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The Moving Picture Show Young Hopes Wrecked

The Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 8

Boys, learn from the tragedy of Frank Mayo, American bandit, who set out to kidnap a publisher named Adler. Meeting with failure, the…

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Inquiry Into Steamer Fire

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Friday. On March 5 the District Coroner at Raymond Terrace, Mr. C. Adam, will inquire into the burning of the…

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Steamer Delayed by Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 7

The coastal steamer Ready, which left Sydney at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday for Clarence Heads, had not arrived last night. It is thought the…

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FINED £100. Master of Steamer Stassfurt

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 5

Tm the Central Summons Court yesterday, Heinrich Ramm, master of the steamer Stassfurt from which it was alleged a prohibited immigrant had…

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Bass Strait Service. New Steamer Ordered

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 5

An order is reported to have been placed with Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons, by the Tasmanian Steamers Proprietary Ltd., for a…

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Secret History of the Day Portable Lock-up -- Goldfish Food Providers -- A Modern Jacob Vagaries of the Law -- When Billy Foundered -- Private Lotteries

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 23

NOT by the widest stretch of imagination could Archbishop Mannix be described as corpulent. On the contrary the ascetic divine is painfully thin about the legs and is small of girth. Nevertheless as the…

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