Four Natives Believed Drowned
TOWNSVILLE, Monday.— Four aborigines are believed to have perished as a result of a launch capsizing off Palm Island aboriginal settlement…
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Accidents, 1939
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Accident Victims
The condition of Mrs. F. C. Lower, who was injured in a motor accident on the Mt. Gipps road on Sunday week was reported from Ward 2 to-day…
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MOUNT. GAMBIER. Monday— when a tree fetliacross an open motor lorry on the main Penola-Mount.Gambier road at Tarpeena, one of seven…
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PERTH, Tuesday. — Five jockeys were injured at Goodwood, races on Saturday, two seriously. In the hurdle race, F. Pratt suffered…
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Sidney Francis, 184 Lane street, employed as a timberman at the Zinc Corporation mine, suffered injuries to the forehead while at work today. He…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.— While schooling All Blamey over the Williamstown fences, K. Brinsley was severely injured. All Blarney fell…
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While riding her bicycle north along Argent Street at 11.50 o'clock this morning Ethel Galley (20), 157 Newton Lane, collided with a Wyman…
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Knocked from hts bicycle by a bolting horse Alan Roy Hurst, of 204 Ryan Street, sustained extensive bruises to the body and was admitted…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.—The body of Stafford Rav Avery (31), of Dulgaigan, was recovered by the police yesterday from a utility truck…
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SYDNEY.—News was received in Sydney today that recent floods had caused tremendous damage in the Bulolo River area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queen Mary In Motor Collision Assisted From Wreckage Badly Shaken Has Been Ordered Complete Rest (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, May 23
Queen-Mary was bruised and shaken but not seriously hurt today, when the car in which she was travelling came into collision with a lorry and overturned…
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James Edwards, of 289 Sulphide Street, emploved as a trucker at the Zinc Corporation mine, suffered injuries to the ribs while at work…
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ALBERT COOPER, aged 25 years, lorry driver, who was involved in the collision at Putney in which Queen Mary was injured, sent a bunch of irises and narcissus to Marlborough House yesterday…
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DEEFENDED claims were heard by Judge Stacy in the District Court today. Davies Brothers Motors Ltd…
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THE hearing of a claim for £400 damages by a woman who was a passenger in a taxi concerned in a collision on the…
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"A most unsatisfactory [?] of the statistics compiled in the [?] of Rood Transport is the large number of accidents due to the failure…
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Arthur Johns, miner at the South mine, was treated for a lacerated finger…
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THE story of how he had found an overturned motor car on the Mount Gipps Road on May 7 and three badly injured people on the roadway near by was told to the Coroner. (Mr. A. B. Collins) today by Robert…
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LONDON, May 29.—Twenty people were hurt and 12 were taken to hospital in Liverpool after, the explosion of a tear gas bomb in the. News…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—The Adelaide Cup winner, Son of Aurous, has an injured near foreleg and is a boubtful starter in the Birthday Cup of…
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