They Live in a Wreck of a Home
The Sun · Sunday 1 May 1949 · page 6
TWO brothers, Jack and Jim Hoyle, live in a strange home on the beach at Malahang, New Guinea. Their home weighs 8000 tons and cost them £5. It is the former Japanese transport ship Myoko Maru, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Feared Lost in Launch Wreck Land, Sea and Air Search Begins Big Piece Off Bow of Boat
Daily Mirror · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A land, sea and air search began at daylight this morning for two men believed missing from a launch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch Has Rough Tasman Trip
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 4
AUCKLAND, Monday (A.A.P. Reuter). — The 58ft Melbourne ketch Kurrowa III arrived last night, 12 days out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage of Launch
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 7
POLICE BELIEVE this wreckage washed up at Newcastle is part of a launch which a steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal Pastoral Industry Award Another Great Achievement A.W.U. Secures All-Time Record High Shearing Rate Triumph for Union Policy Smashing Reply to Communist Union Wreckers
The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 1
In conformity with the decisions of Annual Convention and the Federal Executive Council, an application was made by General Secretary T. Dougherty, on behalf of the Australian Workers' Union, to the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration for a variation of the Pastoral Industry Award, and as a result the shearing rate for flock sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Stabbed, Home Wrecked
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1
Two men received serious stab wounds in a brawl at a Lidcombe house last night. Earlier visitors to the house smashed windows…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship fires distress signals in gale; another ashore in bay
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 1
Police and navigation authorities are trying to get in touch with an unidentified vessel that fired distress flares off Botany last night. The south-westerly gale which got the ship info trouble also:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Gale Stops Manly Ferries Many Vessels Driven Ashore Freak Storm Strikes Bondi
Truth · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 2
With mountainous seas, whipped up by a southerly gale, pounding the coastline, shipping was completely disorganised and serious damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy wrecker gangs roam city parks
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 7
MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Gangs of hooligans are roaming Melbourne at night wrecking public parks. Aged between 16 and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Birth of Quads Makes Father a Nervous Wreck
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 May 1949 · page 44
NEW YORK, Sat. -- Charles Collins, whose wife gave birth to quadruplets on Tuesday, went into hospital yesterday, a nervous wreck. He had not had a…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →"Seesil" Schooner Didn't Make Sail
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 24
The first scale gym. workout of negro world bantamweight title contender, Cecil Schoonmaker, will take place tomorrow--we hope IT was to have taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →"Seesil" Schooner Didn't Make Sail
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 24
The first public full scale gym. workout of negro world bantamweight title contender, Cecil Schoon- maker, will take place tomorrow--we hope. IT was to have taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Seesil" Schooner Didn't Make Sail
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 24
The first public full scale gym. workout of negro world bantamweight title contender, Cecil Schoonmaker, will take place tomorrow-- we hope. IT was to have taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Truth's "Popular Science" Feature Atom Bomb May Wreck World
Truth · Sunday 15 May 1949 · page 42
WHAT goes on behind the concrete wall sheltering secret atom bomb research? Here's a surmise…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →11 Hurt, Double Trams Wrecked in Collision Chaotic Scene at Rozelle Crossing
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1
ELEVEN men were injured and many others suffered shock in a sensational smash involving two double trams, three cars of which were derailed and forced in the form of an arrowhead under a shop awning at Rozelle Junction at 6.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →11 Hurt, Double Rams Wrecked in Collision Chaotic Scene at Rozelle Crossing
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1
ELEVEN men were injured and many others suffered shock in a sensational smash involving two double trams, three cars of which were derailed and forced in the form of an arrowhead under a shop awning af Rozelle Junction at 6.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →11 Hurt, Double Trams Wrecked in Collision Chaotic Scene at Rozelle Crossing
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1
ELEVEN men were injured and many others suffered shock in a sensational smash involving two-double trams, three cars of which were derailed and forced in the form of an arrowhead under a shop awning at Rozelle Junction at 6.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →11 Hurt, Double Trams Wrecked in Collosion Chaotic Scene at Rozelle Crossing
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1
ELEVEN men were Injured and many others suffered shock inn a sensational smash involving two double trams, three cars of which were derailed and forced in the form of an arrowhead under a shop awning at Rozelle Junction at 6.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →11 Hurt, Double Trams Wrecked in Collision Chaotic Scene at Rozelle Crossing
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1
ELEVEN men were injured and many others suffered shock in a sensational smash involving two double trams, three cars of which were derailed arid forced in the form of an arrowhead under a shop awning at Rozelle Junction at 6.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →11 Hurt, Double Trams Wrecked in Collision Chaotic Scene at Rozelle Crossing
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1
ELEVEN men were injured and many others suffered shock in a sensational smash involving two double trams,three cars of which were derailed and forced in the form of an arrowhead under a shop awning at Rozelle Junction at 6.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →