Road Accidents
"A bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied."…
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Air Force Fatality Plane Hits Tree Sydney
Sergeant R. D. Pomeroy was killed and Aircraftsman J. C. A. Purdey seriously injured when an R.A.A.F. Hawker-Demon machine…
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LATE yesterday afternoon, Pat Russell, 4, of High-street, East Maitland, received a probable dislocation of the right knee and a fracture of a…
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Throwing a lighted match into a petrol drum at Canterbury to-day, two young boys were badly burned. One of the lads, whose burns were…
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Suddenly Dick Leverton, who was leading, stepped on the last section of staging but one. No sooner had he placed his weight on the steel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Pilot Drowned London, June 15
A New Zealander, J. M. Baird, a pupil pilot of the Air Force Flying School at Brough, was drowned when an aeroplane fell into the Humber…
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Four men, who were working on top of the blast furnace at the Port Kembla Steelworks, were burned yesterday afternoon. The bell cover was…
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William Spargo, 42, a Miner, residing at Kearsley-street, Bellbird, had his right knee lacerated when struck by a fall of Coal…
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Shortly after 5 o'clock last night, two cars collided in George-street, and although the impact caused considerable damage to one of the cars…
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It was learned to-day that' the injuries sustained by Mr. Roy Allen, driver of the trenching machine engaged on the Muswellbrook sewerage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Injured Cessnock
William Sparge (42), of Kearsley-street, Bellbird, a miner at Pelton colliery, was struck by a fall of coal while at work to-day and received…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Women Fight Bullock Animal Kept Down While Injured Friend Escapes
Tackling an infuriated bullock which had thrown her woman friend. Miss Jessie Jardine, aged about 30, brought the animal to the ground,…
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Members of the Forestry camp at Crawford River may be pardoned for thinking there is a "hoodoo" hanging over the camp. The last fortnight has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Overturned Four Times Car Accident Near Krambach
Although the car in which they were travelling turned over four times and came to rest with its wheels in the air, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm M…
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Thomas Hedley 55, of Catherine-street, Cessnock a miner employed at Pelton colliery received an injury to the left…
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Evidence was given at an inquest at Newcastle Courthouse into the death of Walter Edwin Bramble, 20 years and 11 months, of Russell-road…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Driver's Death Accidental, Says Coroner Forest Tragedy
The death of Percy James Batchelor (31), a tractor driver, who as fatally injured at Crawford River forest camp on June 9,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accidents Britain's Road Toll
A return has been presented to Parliament showing the number of accidents in Great Britain resulting in death or injury In which vehicles and horses…
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Alfred Watson, 18, of Main-road, Weston, an employee at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery, suffered an injury to his pelvis at work to-day. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Fatality Girl Killed, Brother Hurt SYDNEY
Lois Marlow, 12½, of Cabramatta, was killed and Edward Marlow, 18, her brother, suffered severe injuries when a bicycle on which they were…
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