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INTRODUCTION

ABORIGINAL PEOPLE

Few Records

First European Contacts

The Next Wave

Why Did the Biripi People Disappear?

Conflict

Arsenic as a Weapon

Meeting the Evil Spirits

The Biripi People Vanish

AN ABORIGINAL PERSON'S VIEW

About David Unapion

Coming to Australia

Driven by Fierce Ants

Traditional Law

The Three Great Tests

Hunger

Pain

Fear

Marriage

Vast Amount of Knowledge

Differences in Different Places

Greatest Time of the Years

The Stars and Legends

Hypnotic Suggestion as Medicine

Effect of Contact with the White Man

EXPLORATION AND NAMES

Sailed Past

Shipwreck Survivors

Land Exploration

Land Grant

Forster

Tuncurry

Wallis Lake

Bennett's Head

Early Limits for Settlement

THE BOAT

Fate

The 'Jane' Shipwrecked (1816)

John Oxley Trudges South (1818)

The Boat from the 'Jane'

Manning River's North Entrance

Manning River' South Entrance

"Jane's" Fate is Oxley's Fortune

Boat Used at Tuncurry

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Survey of lakes (1827)

Australian Agricultural Company

Robert Dawson Explores

Hut Keeper Speared

Smith's, Myall and Wallis Lakes

Cape Hawke to Manning River

Exploring for Coal

What If?

TUNCURRY

Tuncurry Begins (1875)

John Wright

Ship Building

A School

The Post Office

Origin of Name Tuncurry

A Hotel

An Observation

TUNCURRY BACK THEN

Proclaimed Village (1893)

Tuncurry - The Village

Post Office

Fazio Family Cottage

Churches

War Memorial

'Progress'

EARLY MISSIONARY WORK

(Tuncurry 1888)

TUNCURRY'S FIRST STORE

John Wright Opens A Store

The Depression Years

First Petrol Bowsers

A Family Store

TUNCURRY MEMORIAL HALL

(1921)

A World War 1 Memorial Hall

Public Meeting Held (1920)

Opening (1921)

A Cinema (1937)

Re-Opens as Public Hall (1999)

HOW THEY COPED

Life on a small farm (1930s)

There Was a Time

Milk

Butter

Bread

Vegetables

Killing Beasts

Tobacco and Brew

Soap

Sugar

Grain

Dairy Co-operatives

Cream Boats

Decline of Small Farms

GRANNY RENNIE

Born

Married

Tuncurry

Children

Joseph Dies

Remarried

A Healer

Public Recognition

Fatally Burnt

Daughter Continued

THE FAZIO FAMILY

Early Years

Migrated (1886)

In Australia

Married

In Tuncurry

Today

SHIPBUILDING AT CAPE HAWKE

(1870 – 1950s)

First Vessel Launched 1879

William Peat

Hugh Leslie

Richard Pheagan

Breckenridge Family

Miles Family

Wright Family

Other Boat Builders

Total Number of Vessels Built

SHIPWRECKS OFF CAPE HAWKE

(1816 – 1934)

700 Vessels on the Bottom

Sea Currents

A Memorial to Sunken Ships

Some of the Ships Wrecked

The 'Hootlet'

WINDS OF DISASTER

A Gale (1921)

The 'Fitzroy' Sinks

Size and Cargo

Full Force of Gale

Ship Abandoned

Survivors

The 'Our Jack' Sinks

Background Information

Ship Abandoned

S.S. 'Brundah' Rescues Nine

Worst Losses

FLOTSAM USED

Fazio House/Shop (1900)

"Empress of India" Launched 1877

"Empress of India" Wrecked 1900

Captain and Crew Drowned

Flotsam Rescued by Locals

Corner of Manning and Kent Streets

Fazio Family Buy House

Fazio Shop Built From Flotsam

CAPE HAWKE HARBOUR

A Busy Port (1912 – 1931)

A Hive of Activity

Volume of Shipping in 1912

Goods Sent Out (1912)

General Lading

Volume of Shipping in 1921

Goods Sent Out (1921)

Shipping in 1931

Goods Sent Out (1931)

Ships Losing to the Railway

 

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