Week-end Accidents
While playing on Friday afternoon Leslie Kaye Jackson, aged four years, suffered a probable fracture of the left forearm, when…
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Accidents, 1944
171 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 9
Collision at Sea: Lucky Escapes
SYDNEY, Tues. -- When an Allied freighter and a well-known coastal vessel came into collision off the N.S.W coast last night, four Sydney firemen…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--When told to drop his rifle before he began to swim across the Richmond River, on manoeuvres, a Netherlands East Indies soldier replied…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, slipped and fell in Parliament House to-day, and sprained his ankle badly…
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MELBOURNE, Mon. -- Two soldiers are believed to have been drowned in the Warranga basin, at Russworth, when their…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.--No explanation could be given regarding the collision which occurred between two steamers off the New…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Robert Garbutt (21), wheeler, was fatally crushed in a fall of stone at the Burwood Colliery to-day…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Thomas Angle (24), of Bondi, fell from a skiff off Shark Island, Rose Bay, and was drowned to-day…
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Frederick William Heiss, of Turf street, Grafton, suffered injuries to the abdomen, right shoulder and left hand when he…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--After investigating the circumstances of the death of Kevin McNamara, aged nine, at his home at Attunga,…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Nine passengers were injured when a crowded bus collided with a telegraph, pole and turned over in Manly to-day…
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While climbing a tree to investigate a bird's nest on Friday. Ormond McCrystal (11), son of Mr. and Mrs. George McCrystal,…
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PERTH, Tues.--When a "dumb roller" struck a picnic launch at Walpole Inlet, on the south coast of Western Australia, yesterday, the 12 occupants…
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SYDNEY, Tues. -- A sensation was caused in racing circles to-day, when it was learned that Abbeville, who has been a hot favorite for the Epsom…
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Samuel Henry Marsh, an elderly man, of Pound street, Grafton, sustained a fracture of the right thigh when he bumped against a…
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When he was injured whilst timber-getting yesterday morning, a man was carried by his mates for two miles down a…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.—The Court of Marine Inquiry to-day began the hearing of a charge of misconduct and incompetence…
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In the Coroner's Court, before Mr. W. J. Rolph. Deputy Coroner at Maclean, yesterday, an inquiry was held regarding die circumstances…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—In the heavy surf at North Cronulla yesterday Eric Taylor (36), of Carlton, was drowned…
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Mrs. H. G. Rowles, of Kangaroo Creek, suffered punctured wounds to the left arm, and severe lacerations tb the right wrist, when she…
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