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SS Mildura bell to hang again as part of Deakin Avenue plan

Bernard Humphreys

ITS proud past tarnished by years of neglect, the bell of the SS Mildura will soon shine again. Salvaged from the wreck of the cattle-carrying steamer after a cyclone forced her aground near Exmouth in Western Australia in 1907, the bell was for decades used to summon workers for meals on a remote grazing property. […]

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