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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

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Bullock Was Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 26

LONDON.--For the burial of a bullock washed up on the beach at Gisleham (Suffolk), the local Rural District…

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Bullock Was Wreck!

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 26

LONDON.--For the burial of a bullock washed up on the beach at Gisleham (Suffolk), the local Rural District…

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Bullock Was Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 26

LONDON.--For the burial of a bullock washed up on the beach at Gisleham (Suffolk), the local Rural District…

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Lifeboat Sought For South Coast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 3

THE Premier (Mr. McGirr) said today he would consider a suggestion that South Coast lifesaving clubs be…

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Lifeboat Sought For South Coast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 3

THE Premier (Mr. McGirr) said today he would consider a suggestion that South Coast lifesaving clubs be…

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Lifeboat Sought For South Coast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 1

THE Premier (Mr. McGirr) said today he would consider a suggestion that South Coast lifesaving clubs be…

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Dredge Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

A 450-ton dredge was blown ashore in Botany Bay and dozens of small craft were beached or sunk…

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Dredge: Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

A 450-ton dredge was blown ashore in Botany Bay and dozens of small craft were beached or sunk…

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Dredge Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

A 450-ton dredge was blown ashore in Botany Bay and dozens of small craft were beached or sunk…

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Dredge Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

A 450-ton dredge was blown ashore in Botany Bay and dozens of small craft were beached or sunk…

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Dredge Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

A 450-ton dredge wa[?] blown ashore in Botany Bay and dozens of sma[?]craft were beached or sun[?]…

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Plane, with 15 aboard, wrecked and burned

The Sun · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

WELLINGTON (NZ), Friday.--An airliner from Auckland with 15 people aboard crashed and burned in the hills north of Wellington this morning. The aircraft, a National…

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Dredge Ashore in Southerly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 March 1949 · page 4

This dredge, moored 200 yards from the shore in Botany Bay yesterday, was blown ashore by a strong southerly. The pipes in the foreground carried silt from the dredge to Cook's River which is being filled in under the Mascot a[?]rodrome extension scheme…

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A sterilising scandal wrecked a marriage

The Sun · Sunday 20 March 1949 · page 13

An Oklahoma boy who was sterilised by an orphanage as a "feeble-minded troublemaker," later won the rank of master-sergeant in an American tank regiment during the war…

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Plane "falls from sky" Fliers Walk Out of Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 March 1949 · page 3

Thousands of spectators at a Casino air pageant yesterday saw an R.A.A.F. Mosquito fall out of the sky and crash on a grazier's field…

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Vandals Wreck Headstones at Rookwood Cemetery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 March 1949 · page 3

Vandals last week tore down headstones and smashed expensive granite and marble ornaments at…

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Phone Wrecker at It Again

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 4

A crank, who has a grudge against telephones, is again at work in the Bondi district. ABOUT 12 months ago, working mostly at night, the…

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Phone Wrecker at It Again

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 4

A crank, who has a grudge against telephones, is again at work in the Bondi district. ABOUT 12 months ago, working mostly at night, the…

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Shipwreck, Murder, Cannibalism Scored Tale of Madcap Adventure

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 17

IN the year 1872 German colonists were gathering fortunes in the process of making north- eastern New Guinea a German colony, and far-sighted Australians were getting nowhere in their efforts to have what was left- Papua and eastern New Guinea- annexed to…

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Shipwreck, Murder, Cannibalism Scored Tale of Madcap Adventure

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 17

IN the year 1872 German colonists were gathering fortunes in the process of making north-eastern New Guinea a German colony, and far-sighted Australians were getting nowhere in their efforts to have what was left-Papua and eastern New Guinea-annexed to…

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