Floor Update #1: What's Under the Lino?

The first thing the floor guys did was rip up the old lino and the masonite underneath it in the kitchen and I got my first look at what the kitchen floor really looks like.
In the middle of the kitchen, someone put a couple of sheets newspaper down in one area and laid the masonite and lino on top.
From the date on this fragment, they used the Daily Mirror from Monday, March 9.
According to Google, The Daily Mirror isn't (or wasn't) a Sydney newspaper. The most likely Daily Mirror is a UK newspaper and not one known for exceedingly high levels of journalistic excellence. I looked up Monday, March 9 in a perpetual calendar and found that the 9th of March fell on a Monday in 1924, 1952, 1980, 2008 and will again in 2036. I'm guessing that the paper came from 1980.

For some reason, the alcove where the stove used to go had linoleum tiles on top of concrete. The concrete I understand, but the tiles and the drain were a bit unexpected.
Maybe this was where they put the icebox instead of a stove? But would they have been using iceboxes or refrigerators in Sydney in the 1970s? Unless the building is older than I thought it was. I'll have to check it out.

The floor guys have also ripped up the tacking strips that held the carpet in place in all the rooms of the unit. In the lounge room they used a sander, giving me a better idea of what the floor boards will look like when polished.
Rather promising, don't you think?

Correction on 13 June: Thanks to Erica, I stand corrected. The Daily Mirror was printed in Sydney from 1941 to 1990 and was also known as The Daily Telegraph Mirror and The Daily Telegraph.