Efforts To Save Youth Fail Drowned In Lake
Sydney, December 31.—A young woman from Wagga made a desperate, but unavailing, attempt to save a youth from drowning on Narrabeen Lake late…
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Accidents, 1948
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Rioting At Haifa Refineries 47 Killed; 49 Injured
Jerusalem, December 31.—Latest official figures reveal that forty-one Jews and six Araby were killed, and forty-two Arabs and seven Jews…
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Sydney, December [?]—Coffs Harbor police will hold an inquiry into the collapse of a wooden stand crowded with 500 people [?] Coffs Harbor's…
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Sydney, December 31.—Fatal road accidents for the year rose to 503 tonight when Robert Miller (50), of Bridge Road, Forest Lodge, died in…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.).— A half caste Maori boy, Patrick Dunne (5) stepped into a treacherous deep water spot in the Rangitaiki…
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MELBOURNE— Mr. R. G. Casey's Fairchild four-seater aircraft was badly damaged in a freak accident at Essendon on Tuesday…
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SYDNEY.— A woman was killed instantly today when she crashed 300 feet from the cliff top at Jacob's Ladder, Vaucluse…
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WHEN a motor cycle and sidecar skidded and struck a freeguard near the cemetery about 5.15 p.m. yesterday two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Son Of Station Owner Injured By Bucking Horse
Kenneth Andrews (8), of Plen Idol Station, suffered six fractured ribs when trod or by a horse near his home on New Year's Eve…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Death Of Accident Victim Mr. Max Nicholls Diet In Hospital
Mr. Maxwell Alfred Nicholls died at the Hospital early on Sunday morning as a result of head injuries received when he fell from a lorry in Lane Street at…
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There were two patients admitted to the Hospital on Saturday night following accidents. The first was a young girl. Loretta…
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SERIOUSLY injured in a fall from a motor lorry in Lane Street about 2.30 a.m. on New Year's Day, Maxwell Alfred Nicholls died in the Hospital at 8.30 a.m. yesterday…
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Lewis King, of 82 Cornish St., suffered a fractured right arm in a fall late.Saturday hight. He was admitted to the Hospital at 11.30…
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ALBURY.— Alexsandras Vasiliaukas 23, a Bait migrant, of Bonegilla Camp, was drowned at Noreuil Park, Albury…
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It is a very rare thing that a working day on the line or lode goes by without an accident of some sort, and yesterday, the first day back at work for Zinc…
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H.M. Butcher, of 746 Beryl St., a Zinc Corporation employee suffered a probable fracture of the big toe of the left foot today. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatally Injured at N.g. Dance
Port Moresby, January 6.—The death occurred at Lae on Saturday of Mr. John Scott, Lae manager for New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., as a result of…
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Yesterday evening, at about 5.55 p.m., a slight accident occurred between two cars in Oxide Street, just west of Beryl Street…
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J. H. Algate, of the North Mine, suffered a foreign body in the left eye yesterday. After treatment at a surgery he was taken home to 74 Wofram Street…
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SYDNEY.— Police today advised a boy cyclist involved in an accident yesterday which caused a man's death to contact them…
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