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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1959

10 stories in Sydney's papers

Six homes wrecked for service station

Tribune · Wednesday 4 March 1959 · page 9

SYDNEY: Although there are 18 service stations within a mile (about one every 100 yards) of the proposed site, the Shell Oil Company plans to build a service station in Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach…

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Vandals Wreck Wedding Party at Cabramatta

The Biz · Wednesday 8 April 1959 · page 4

Vandals wrecked careful wedding breakfast preparations at the Cabramatta Town Hall on Easter Saturday…

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Big 4 Talks Start Despite Wreckers

Tribune · Wednesday 13 May 1959 · page 1

Despite a series of wrecking manoeuvres by the capitalist powers right up to the last moment, the long sought-for conference of Big Four Foreign Ministers has begun at Geneva…

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Wreckers at work

Tribune · Wednesday 20 May 1959 · page 5

IN VICTORIA: A £3500 home, only five years old, being demolished by the Housing Commission in Victoria On its Bay- brook estate (above). The Commission…

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Ultimatum Amid West Disunity America seeking to wreck Geneva

Tribune · Wednesday 17 June 1959 · page 11

A desperate Western effort to break up the Geneva Foreign Ministers talks before the Western delegations themselves dissolve into contending factions became, evident in Geneva this week…

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To Both Editors Neuman Worse Than Wreckers

Tharunka · Thursday 30 July 1959 · page 2

Sir, Apologies are certainly due to Players for the damage done to their set by the “ream of…

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Despite D.L.P.-Liberal marriage . . Labor-cp Bid to Save Homes From Wreckers

Tribune · Wednesday 5 August 1959 · page 2

SYDNEY: The new "Democratic Reform Party" (Aid, O'Dea's phrase) got off to a great start last week on the…

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Meat union leader warns that hungry meat monopolies... are wrecking our beef industry are causing high retail prices wall cause mass unemployment

Tribune · Wednesday 9 September 1959 · page 5

By H. FIELD, Queensland State Secretary, Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union. BRISBANE:…

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Violent Storm Homes Wrecked at Smithfield

The Biz · Wednesday 4 November 1959 · page 1

A gigantic freak willy-willy completely wrecked three homes and damaged dozens of others at Smithfield on Friday…

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The convict girl who rode into our history. Magazine St. Mealo and the wreckers

Tribune · Tuesday 22 December 1959 · page 6

IN 1790 a high-spirited English girl leaped light - heartedly onto someone else's horse and…

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