Road Accidents Over Holidays Decrease
SYDNEY.—The death roll of road accidents in N.S.W. between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day totalled 14 killed and 55 injured. This…
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Accidents, 1946
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J. Coutts Injured at Randwick
Sydney, January 2.—Jockey J. Coutts suffered serious head injuries when he was involved in a race smash during the running of the Encourage Handicap…
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Melbourne, Jan. 2—When a car hit a tree at the corner of Westbury Street and Dandenong Road, East St. Kilda, at 3.30 a.m. yesterday four persons were injured…
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Returning from an adjoining station on Sunday afternoon the family of Mr. Robert Geoffrey Barton (73), of Toweran Station (Q.), was attracted by the…
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While, staying with relatives at Silverton over the holiday period, Arthur Johns (15), of 160 Ryan Lane, was shot in the left thigh. The boy was…
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When a motor bus swerved to pass another vehicle in Iodide Street at 11.10 o'clock last night, John Francis Kinnane, of 244 Zebina Street, who…
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Sydney, January 6.—Narrabeen Lakes, in which two small boys were drowned during the holidays was nearly the scene of a third tragedy to-day when a 4-year…
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Factory accidents increased in all states during the war. In an effort to reduce their number, the Victorian Labor Department is organising an educational…
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Sydney, January 7.—Trams were held up for half a mile in the city tonight when a collision occurred at the intersection of Cleveland Street…
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SYDNEY.—One man was killed and two others were seriously injured when a cable supporting a heavy timber sling snapped causing the timber…
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J. E. Hopkins received a foreign body in the right eye while working at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. He was taken to the Hospital and then home to…
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A. B. Clarke, of 10 Cummins St. received a severe bruise on the left instep and thigh while working at the North mine today. He was taken to the…
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Melbourne, January 9.—Struck by an RAAF vehicle at the corner of Malcolm Road and Lantaua Street, Ivanhoe, near Melbourne, yesterday, Mrs. Mary…
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When riding a bicycle in Beryl St. at 9.15 o'clock last night, Alfred Adams, of 733 Tin Street, fell from the machine. He was conveyed to the…
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ON the eve of her seventh birthday Stella Elaine Jones was drowned at Wilcannia late on Wednesday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H…
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Stella Elaine Jones was buried in Wilcannia Cemetery yesterday on the very day she would have been celebrating her seventh birthday. The girl. known to all…
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On Wednesday afternoon Wilcannia was plunged in gloom when it was learned that Stella Elaine Jones, the seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs H. Jones, had been drowned in the river at Steamer Point, a popular bathing spot with…
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THREE men were seriously injured and two others slightly hurt when a motor cycle with a pillion…
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Colin Pearson, who resides in Chapple Street between [?]dide and Brazil Streets; John Francis, of 249 Oxide Street, and Reg, Trcloar, whose address was not…
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A. E. Hoskins, of 577 Blende Street, a miner at the Zinc, was admitted to the Hospital with injuries to the left eye, and David Maglesdorf, of 78 Mica Street, a…
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