Premature Explosion. Man Injured at Anna Bay
William Proctor, 49, of Parramatta Road, Petersham, was injured in a quarry at Anna Bay on Wednesday, when a charge of gelignite exploded…
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Prismatic Discs Reduce Accidents Road Safety Experiments
The experiment conducted with the now type reflex discs on an 85 miles stretch of highway between Detroit and Lansing, in…
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Last sleeper boat will be remembered by many members of the waterside workers. It worked a couple of days and a night and returned £7 odd…
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For the first time since road accident statistics have been kept there has been a decrease in the figures during the first two, and possibly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents in Industry
No fewer than SO,000 employees in industry in New South Wales were injured last year. Of that number 50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Head Injured Cessnock
When he fell in the school grounds yesterday afternoon, Raymond Palfrey, 13, of Mt. View-road, Cessnock, received an injury to the head…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Singleton Car Overturned Collision at Singleton SINGLETON
The driver, Cliff Chapman, of Maison Dion, and three passengers in a car, were lucky to escape serious , injury in an accident yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck Pole Terrific Motor Car Crash Five Injured Sydney
When a car struck a telegraph pole at Marrickville shortly before dawn to-day the crash was so terrific that people in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Street Corner Collision
Singleton's long list of collisions at street intersections was added to late on Friday afternoon, when two cars were involved in an accident at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japan Swept by Typhoon Hundreds Killed or Injured
Hundreds of people were killed or injured and many thousands are homeless as a result of a typhoon which devastated the island of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car Crashes Into Pole Five People Injured
When a car struck a telegraph pole at Marrickville shortly before dawn on Saturday the crash was so terrific that people in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion of Dynamite and Detonators Two Men Badly Injured. Sydney
While Arthur James, Grierson, 22, a labourer, and Lester James Welkin, 27, a miner, were burning old dynamite in a quarry near Kalgoorlie,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Killed Motor Cycle Accidents BUNDABERG
George Pollock, 19, and Reuben Hoff, 19, were killed when a truck and a motor-cycle collided on the Buccaroad, 10 miles from Bundaberg, last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pensioner Drowned. Is River at Muswellbrook
An old-age pensioner, John McGuinnees, was drowned in the river about 200 yards from the Hunter River bridge at midday on Sunday…
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Eight thousand Chinese are reported to have lost their lives when three vessels were sunk by Japanese…
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While he was working in the shaft of Cox's Fine' mine, Harold Grafton, 28, miner, was crushed by a descending cage…
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Mrs. Wiest (68), wife of Mr. F. W. [?]Viest, of Murrurundi, was fatally [?]urned last week, when her clothes [?]ecame ignited while she was t…
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At Wollombi Courthouse on Saturday the Wollombi District Coroner (Mr. E. Willis) held an inquest concerning the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →8000 Chinese Drowned Three Vessels Sunk by Japanese
Eight thousand Chinese are reported to have lost their lives when three vessels were sunk by Japanese airmen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smoke Signal Guides Rescue Party Injured Man's Resource
A message from Brisbane states that, lying for three days badly injured on a mountainside as a result of a fall, Ralph Butt, aged 75,…
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