Collision in Cobalt Street
Slight damage was done to two cars when a collision occurred in Cobalt Street yesterday at 1.30 p.m. Mabel Gwendolyn Lessue of 113…
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Accidents, 1947
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Test Bowlers Injured
Melbourne, February 18.—Victorian Test all-rounder Ian Johnson will miss the Fifth Test because of a broken finger on his bowling hand. Johnson…
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SYDNEY.—Hazel Jones, 32, single, of Hunter's Hill, was drowned at Palm Beach Monday night after her male companion…
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Melbourne, February 18.—Efforts to transport Queen of the Fairies by plane for tomorrow's Launceston Cup almost failed. The filly showed no hesitation…
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N. Bloomfield, of 750 Chapple Street, a miner at the Zinc Corporation, was treated at the Hospital today for a fractured right…
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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hutchinson, a Council employee, was injured while driving a sanitary van in Thomas Lane. His horse twisted suddenly, and he was…
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Caught between the shafts and the van when the horses swerved, Lawrence Hutchinson, a sanitary van attendant, employed by the…
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R. Potter, of 314 Piper Street, a pipe fitter at the Zine Corporation, was treated at the Hospital today for an injury to the eye…
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E. R. Partridge was taken from the Zinc Corporation to the Hospital yesterday for X-Ray for a probable fracture ot the right hand. He was later taken…
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EVIDENCE was given at length in the Coroner's Court today when an inquest was held on Charles Sylvester Chigwidden, a cyclist, who died following a collision with a motor car at the corner of Mica and Oxide…
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After a long and tiring hearing, which lasted five hours, the Coroner (Mr. J. B. Hodgson) returned a verdict of accidental death when the inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Charles Sylvester Chigwidden was…
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R. S. Cowie, South Mine, injured his right hand while working today. He was taicen to a surgery, then to the Hospital for…
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DARWIN—Floodwaters brought down by heavy rain are belived to have been responsible for the drowning in Darwin harbor of Arthur Tye (57), fisherman. After several dramatic appeals…
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H. Andrews sustained a contused wound of the right hand on the South Mine yesterday. Alter an X-ray at the hospital he was taken home to 563…
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An employee of Koridina Station, just out of Wanaaring, was crushed against thc stock fence by a horse yesterday, and suffered…
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G. Graham, of the North mine, was taken to the Hospital yesterday for an X-Ray for a fractured foot. He was later taken home…
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A collision between two cyclists occurred on South Road on Wednesday, when Keith Harvey of 76 Boughtman Street suffered a fractured left wrist…
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The Flying Doctor was called out to Koradinia Station, near Wan[?]ing yesterday to attend, a young station hand, who had been injured while…
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