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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 25

Claim for £300,000 Steamer Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 4

PERTH, Wednesday.— Owners of the steamship Panamanian commenced a £300,000 law suit for…

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Reds Try to Wreck Meeting 1000 Chant At Menzies

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 1

About 1000 Communists, shouting and chanting in unison, tried to prevent the Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Menzies) from speaking at Sydney Stadium…

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Menzies' Triumph Over Reds Plan To Wreck Stadium Meeting Fails Wild Cheers for Leader

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 2

CALM and unruffled, the Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Menzies) defeated organised attempts by about 1000 Communists to wreck his meeting…

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Menzies' Triumph Over Reds Plan To Wreck Stadium Meeting Fails Wild Cheers for Leader

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 2

CALM and unruffled, the Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Menzies) defeated organised attempts by about 1000 Communists to wreck his meeting…

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How Communists Wrecked The World Trade-Union Body

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 April 1949 · page 2

Why have the British, American, and Dutch, trade-union leaders cancelled their affiliation with the World Federation of Trade Unions?…

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Time to Hit Back at the Wreckers of Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 2

Communist wreckers in industry received one of their sharpest setbacks yesterday when members of the…

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Editorial No Room for Wreckers

The Sun · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 3

The Federal Government can have no choice but to support Mr. Justice Kirby in his stand against Communist attempts to browbeat and dominate the Stevedoring Industry…

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Grammar's Eight Brings Its Oars Ashore River May Be Factor In To-day's Big Race

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 9

Wind and river conditions may play a decisive part in to-day's G.P.S. championship eight-oared race for the Head of the River on the Nepean, according to experienced coaches who have watched the crews in training…

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Wreckers Betray Anzac Dead Says Cathedral Preacher

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 1

AGENTS of a foreign Power working in Australia under the protection of laws they despised must be rooted out if the sacrifice of the two World Wars was considered worth while. The Rev. Father M. H…

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Communists Wrecking The S.I.C.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 2

In the plainest language, Senator Ashley has pledged the Commonwealth Government's full support of Mr. Justice…

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Victorian Ketch Springs Leak

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 11

AUCKLAND, Thurs.--The Victorian ketch Kurrewa HE sent a radio message today to Auckland saying she had…

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Ketch Leaking 400 Miles Out

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Radio messages picked up in Auckland to-day from the ketch, Kurrewa III…

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Costs Might Wreck Wheat Agreement

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 7

A SERIOUS shortcoming In the new International Wheat Agreement Is pointed out by the "Fortnightly Wheat Notes,"…

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Wreckage on Beach

The Sun · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- Police are trying to identify wreckage of a fishing launch washed up in heavy seas on…

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Ketch Reports Rough Voyage

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --The storm-battered ketch Kurrewa III rounded North Cape (N.Z.) yesterday…

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Ketch Reports Rough Voyage

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The storm-battered ketch Kurrewa III rounded North Cape (N.Z.) yesterday…

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"Herald' Saturday Magazine Once Aboard The Schooner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 7

LONGSHORE novelists and city tourist agencies may rave about South Sea voyaging, but if it is done…

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Wreck Washed Up On Beach

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Friday. —The wreckage of a licensed fishing boat was washed up last night on…

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Wreckage of fishing boat

The Sun · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 2

Police investigating the wreckage of a fishing boat washed up on Bar Beach, Newcastle, last night, have…

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Poison Tongue Wrecked Happiness Of Husband

Truth · Sunday 1 May 1949 · page 14

To any and every home, the arrival of the first-born usually means joy. To well-to-do Sydney merchant John Wiseman Buckle, however, it presaged tragedy and the end of his married life…

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