Accident Narrowly Averted
On Boxing Day a car belonging to and driven by Mr. B. Garner, employed at Murtee Station, left the road utter crossing the bridge here and…
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Accidents, 1942
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Bather Injured
PORT PIRIE, Saturday. — Harold William[?] Wilkins, 26. of Georgetown, is in the Port Pirie Hospital in a serious condition as a result of…
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Falling through a set of timber at the North mine today Stanley Johns (44), of 71 Mica Street, suffered head injuries. He has been admitted to…
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Habib Coorey, of 32 Iodide Street, miner at the North mine, was treated at the Hospital today for a foot injury…
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BARMERA, Saturday.—While a mother was frantically searching for her three-year-old daughter, who had. been playing with her small brother…
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Police inquiries into the death of Guy Kennedy, railway franger, who was killed by the special excursion Comet which left Broken Hill on Christmas…
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KALGOORLIE[?] Tuesday.—A five-year-old child was burned to death and her father and eight-year-old sister sustained serious injuries when…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—L. Meenan, crack cross-country jockey, suffered a fractured collarbone when Last March, a novice jumper, fell…
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A GIRL, aged three, was fatally injured when an electric light pole fell on her at North Plympton today…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Evidence of how a pedestrian in Macleay Street, King's Cross, was killed in the partial black-out on December 19, was…
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LAUNCESTON, Friday.—When a boy named Leslie Wilkins slipped and fell into the sea while fishing at Davenport, three companions from…
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A grim experience happened last week to Mr. Joe Warren at Innamincka which nearly ended the man's life. He was Injured by a fall from a buggy on…
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Last Thursday evening, while employed at Murtee Station repairing a windmill. Mr. Ray Barraclough was the victim of a painful accident…
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L[?]-COL. J.C. Robertson, M.C., V.D., of Geelong, who has been killed in action in Malaya, was the son of the late Mr. George A. Robertson. He was born at Geelong and educated at the Geelong College…
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A girl named Taylor, who stated she resided in Ryan Street, was injured in a collision this morning at the intersection of Beryl and Chloride…
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A new system of treating injured workmen who are cases for compensation was discussed at a special meeting of the Hospital Board last…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—During last night's blackout 1200 uniformed and plainclothes police patrolled Sydney and suburbs, but up to an early hour…
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A MAN believed to have been the perpetrator of the bomb outrages at Boulder yesterday was found blown to pieces in the Boulder…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Sandbags packed too tightly and faulty construction of raid protection were blamed by a coroner for the death of…
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GEELONG, Friday.—The deaths of L.A.C. Douglas Bruce Cowell (19), of Lockleys, and L.A.C. Douglas Albert Shearer (19), of Adelaide, who…
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