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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944

523 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 27

Lemonade explosion wrecks oven, fractures woman's legs

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 May 1944 · page 4

A woman had both her legs broken when a bottle of lemonade exploded and blew the door from an oven at Marrickville yesterday. She is Mrs. Susannah Yelds…

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Rats Ashore

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 6

I VISIT Darling Harbor and Darling Island weekly and I find that the rat tin discs are not on landing ropes from the deep-sea ships. Then…

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Rats Ashore

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 6

I VISIT Darling Harbor and Darling Island weekly and I find that the rat tin. discs are not on landing ropes from the deep-sea ships. Then…

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Rats Ashore

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 6

I VISIT Darling Harbor and Darling Island weekly and I find that the rat tin discs are not on landing ropes from the deep-sea ships. Then…

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Rats Ashore

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 6

I VISIT Darling Harbor and Darling Island weekly and I find that the rat tin discs are not on landing ropes from the aeep-sea ships. Then…

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Rats Ashore

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 6

I VISIT Darling Harbor and Darling Island weekly and I find that the rat tin discs are not on landing ropes from the deep-sea ships. Then…

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Rats Ashore

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 6

I VISIT Darling Harbor and Darling Island weekly and I find that the rat tin-discs are not on landing ropes from the deep-sea ships. Then…

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Lost Cargo of Sugar Underwriters' Test Action—"and/or Other Steamer" Point

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 2

In the King's Bench Division recently, Mr. Justice Atkinson gave judgment in a representative action brought by the Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., of Leadenhall Street, London, E.C., against Mr. Samuel Ernest Grimmer, an underwriting member…

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Lang Fills U.A.P. Breach "Prince of Wreckers'" Intrusion Helps Tory Opposition Workers Should Not Be Misled

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 4

Whilst the two official Tory Parties did not contest 31 electorates in the N.S.W. State elections, to be held on May 27, a collection of candidates sponsored by the erstwhile Auburn "dictator"…

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Women's News Wacs Come Ashore in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1944 · page 5

Members of the women's auxiliary of the Australian Commando Squadron Comforts Fund have arranged to hold their meetings on the third…

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Devastating Allied Air Assault on Wakde Jap Base Wrecked

The Sun · Saturday 13 May 1944 · page 2

A devastating attack with 150 tons of bombs was made by big formations of Liberators and Mitchells on Wakde Island, important Jap air base, 110 miles west of Hollandia (Dutch New Guinea) on Thursday…

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Airmen Escape Plane Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).--Two Australian airmen escaped from a fully-loaded Mitchell bomber a few seconds before it…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports New South Wales Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Blut Star Line (Aust.), Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 4

[?] Shippers, 37,538 crcs mutton, 1284 sides pork, 13.069 bxs butter, 453 pkgs sundries," 35-15 pkgs frozen sundries, 3745 crcs mutton…

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Seamen Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 6

SOME ratings are purchasing their own reefer suits with…

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Seamen Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 6

SOME ratings are purchasing their own reefer suits with…

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Seamen Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 6

SOME ratings are purchasing their own reefer suits with…

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Seamen Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 6

SOME ratings are purchasing their own reefer suits with…

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Seamen Ashore Food Costs

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 6

SOME ratings are purchasing their own reefer suits with…

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Seamen Ashore Food Costs

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 6

SOME ratings are purchasing their own reefer suits with…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports New South Wales Steamer. Sailed Sydney. W. G. Deucher & Co., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 4

S Shippers, 3 bgs celery seed, 40 bgs black pepper, 134 bgs rice, 52 sks cornflour, 5 cs arrowroot, 2000 cs beef extract, 57 bgs lentils…

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