Constable, Injured In Fight, Dies Wellington (N.z.), January 3
—Allegedly assaulted by a drunken prisoner at the Police Station at Christchurch on Christmas Day, Constable James Butler died of injuries…
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Accidents, 1938
330 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 17
Three Lads Injured In Explosion Were Playing with Rocket Sydney
WHEN a boy ignited a ship's rocket in a disused building at Balmain to-day the resulting explosion gravely injured three lads. The victims were:…
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ANOTHER accident on the Stephens Creek road at one of the numerous spoon drains has been reported to the police. One of the two…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The prison van carrying the four men who have been charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey was struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News to Brief Accident To Air Liner
SYDNEY, Friday.—The airliner Lepena, which was damaged at the Wagga Aerodrome recently, met with another accident yesterday when,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Injured In Car Crash
LEETON (N.S.W.), Saturday. When a motor car crashed into a tree in the main street of Yanco one of the passengers, Bob…
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MEXICO CITY, July 7.—Mr. Thomas Dale, aged 64 years, who was born in Melbourne and who had been British Vice-Consul at Chihuahua…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Late Ulm's 'Plane in Collision
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Faith in Australia, the late Mr. C. T. P. Ulm's famous 'plane, was damaged when an Aero Club Moth collided with it at…
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Injured when he fell from an electric pole to-day, William R. Williams was treated at the Hospital. He had been engaged replacing a line…
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Three mine employees were treated at the outpatients department of the Hospital yesterday. They were:— J. Quinn, miner at the North mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mother Drowned in View of Family
PERTH, Friday.—Mrs. Kathleen Lily Kenning, aged 24 years, of Collie, was drowned while swimming alone in the Collie River in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The Miner " Motor Section Topical Motoring Notes Minimising Accidents Necessity For Hand Signal
One of the major causes of road accidents in which automobiles are involved is the lack of courtesy shown by so many drivers in not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youths Fail to Save Drowning Man MELBOURNE
Two youths failed to save Eric Richard Scott (27), of George-street, Reservoir, from drowning in Edwardes Lake, Preston…
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A 41-YEAR-OLD man was admitted to Hospital in the early hours of this morning suffering from fractured ribs sustained when his coat…
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BRISBANE, Monday.— Albert Bruce, aged 43, while fishing with two companions, dived from a boat for a swim and disappeared. His…
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Two motor vehicles were slightly damaged in a collision at the intersection of Oxide and Blende streets shortly before 8 o'clock last night…
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HOBART, Wednesday.—Frederick Clifford Lavender (26) and Mavis Birchall Lavender (22), who were married only on January 3 in…
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Five men were treated at the Hospital to-day for injuries received at the mines. They were:— Albert Brown, of 49 Williams-lane,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured Pilot Found Spent Night In Wrecked 'Plane LONDON, January 19
After having been missing for 24 hours, Acting Pilot-Officer Laurence Allen, aged 21 years, was found at 9.80 a.m. to-day in his wrecked R.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →3395 Deaths Due To Motor Accidents Average Of One In Every 2000 Australians
Despite the fact that the figures covering fatal accidents in Australia in 1936, recently issued by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, are just over 12 months old, the record contains features that are of more than passing interest to…
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