Cyclist Injured
When pedalling down the hill from tho North Mine. Thomas Morton, carpenter's apprentice at that mine, fell off his cycle and sustained injuries to hands and…
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Accidents, 1941
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Men Injured
George Thompson, of 593 Argent Street, was treated at the Hospital today for a lacerated finger. William Daley, of 153 Pell Street,…
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Damage was caused a utility truck in Oxide Street yesterday morning when it was struck by a motor lorry that was backing out of a railway siding. The…
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H. McLennan had a finger injured by a stone failing on it at the Zinc Corporation lest night. He wax taken to the Hospital and was later able to go…
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A cyclist is in Ward I at the Hospital in a serious condition. He is Stanly Barrett, of 336 Lane Street, who is suffering from concussion and severe head…
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A man was drowned at Balmain Swimming Baths today and many people were rescued from the surf which was dangerous at some beaches. The drowning…
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No one was injured and no machines were damaged when another accident, involving a motor cycle, occurred yesterday afternoon after five o'clock. William…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—With his clothes on fire Charles Parkinson (33) raced across a paddock at a farm near Ballarat yesterday. He had been…
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Following accidents at the mines, three men were treated at the Hospital, for minor injuries today. At the South mine, Walter Blight,…
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Research into road accidents shows that types of accidents occur in "waves" which are not confined to one part of the State but to the whole of it. In…
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M. Couch had a finger injured by a stone failing on it when working at the Zinc Corporation yesterday afternoon. He was taken in the ambulance to the…
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Two men were treated at the Hospital today after accidents at the Zinc Corporation. They were Bernard Fisher, wireman, of 219 Newton…
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Mrs. Enid Twoford about 34. was killed when she was struck by a motor lorry near her home at Swansea last night. Her daughter, Janice. 18 months…
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Aircraftsman Donald Want, of Narromine training school, was drowned in the Murrubidgee River two miles from his station this afternoon. Sixty men…
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H. Norris sustained injuries to his back while working at the North mine. A further accident at the North happened to M. Hughes, who suffered…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The number of road accidents in N.S.W. in 1940 was 10,773, involving the death of 517 persons and injuries to 7806. A…
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Samuel Chetcuti (48), of 86 Wicks Street, a miner at the North mine, was admitted to Ward 1 at the Hospital today suffering from injuries…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Roy George Lilford (24) wan drowned during a military swimming parade in the Goulburn River near Seymour…
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O. Newson ricked his burk when working at the British Mine last night. He was given attention on the mine and then taken to his home in Williams Street…
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RENMARK, Thursday.—Maureen Woodhouse, 18, wardsmaid, of Renmark District Hospital, is missing, and it is feared that she may have…
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