Road Fatality
News has been received from Merbein of the death of George William Moore (18) which occurred in a collision between a Motor cycle and a bicycle on…
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Accidents, 1950
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Head Injured
When a motor cycle he was riding came into a collision with a utility in Argent Street last night Willity in James GIuis, of 42…
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Lithgov:, December 80.—A 28-years-old crippled ex-serviceman dived fully clothed into a dam at Capertee to rescue a school teacher and his 14…
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Sydney.—Miss Betsy Poole, 65, of Cremorne, was found drowned In the Harbor, close to Taronga Park Zoo wharf. She had been…
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Brisbane.— A girl aged 28 months, was drowned in 2½ft. of water, 100 yards from her parents farmhouse…
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Mr. R. C. Whalan, the local Senior Inspector of Mines reports that the average number of men employed at the Broken Hill mines in the year 1945…
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Brisbane, January 3.—A 23-month-old child. Anne Dowling was drowned in 2½ft. of water 100 yards from her parents home near Cleveland yesterday…
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Sydney, January 3.—Four people were injured, one seriously, when a crowded double decker, bus struck the overhanging branches of a tree at The Spit early today. The bus was passing a tram on a narrow section of the roadway when the…
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Katoomba, January 3.—After an agonising night in the bush suffering from a paralysed leg and an internal injury Patricia Watts (21) of Hargrave Street, Newcastle, was rescued from Jamieson Valley today. She was injured in a fall…
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Sydney, January 5.—A hundred passengers in four tourist buses had remarkable escapes from serious injury last night when the buses were all…
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Denis Pate (8) injured his left leg while playing at the Railway Town Park last night. He was taken to the Hospital in the civil ambulance and…
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Motor cycles owned and ridden by Keith Daly and Thomas Selby came into collision in Argent Street, near Chloride Street, shortly…
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Harold Leslie Hocking (27). of 145 Pell Street, was treated at the Hospital on Friday for a suspected fractured neck. He was later allowed to be taken home…
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Sydney. January 10.—A 79-year-old woman broke her nose and suffered concussion yesterday saving for two-year-old grandson from drowning…
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Reykjavik, January 10.—All seven members of the crew of the 115-ton Iceland motor vessel "Helgi" were drowned after the…
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Ormond William Schmidt, (23), of Munster-ave., Carnegie, was drowned in 2 ft. of water at Lorne. His brothers (Jack and Ronald)…
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Melbourne, January [?] — Ormond William Schmidi, 23, of Munster Avenue, Carnegic, was drowned in shallow water when he collected at Lorne…
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An inquest into a fatality on Wilcannia Road yesterday will be held on January 29. The Coroner (Mr. C. K. Ward)…
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Sydney.—Four Coff's Harbor residents who booked seats on to-day's plane to Sydney, gave them up to enable a badly-injured youth…
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A local man George Henry Simmons, died yesterday when the car he was driving overturned on the Wilcannia Road. His wife and child, who were passengers, suffered slight injuries in the accident which occurred about 20 miles…
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