Fatal Frolic Four Children Drowned AUCKLAND
During a bathing parade four school children were drowned in the [?] River, near Make[?]. They were Ronnie Tapsell, 8, Bessie McDonald, 7…
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Holiday Time Is Accident Time. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S. Wales)
Seven years ago the accident statistics of the State were recorded for the first time. Since then there has been an entry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Local and General. Accident to Stock Inspector
Mr. Prank Trevitt, stock inspector to the Merriwa Pastures Protection Board, met with a nasty accident last week-end. He was, we understand,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accident at Tomago
Whilst at work at the waterworks at Tomago, Mr. Fred Krohn, jun., received a nasty cat to the head. He was helping with a tank when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Overturns Muswellbrook Residents Injured GOSFORD
Mrs. R. E. Scareshrook, of Blighlane, Muswellbrook, had her jaw sad a wist fractured when the car she was driving to Sydney overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Four Injured Lorry And Car Collide NEWCASTLE
Four persons were injured when an Electric Supply Department lorry collided with a car at Hamilton. The driver of the lorry, Melville…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cattle Killed Lorry Accident Near Gloucester Lucky Escape Gloucester
Late on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Sell Blanch, of Craven, wan driving a motor lorry and trailer loaded with logs down an Incline on the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured in Fall From Window Sydney, London
Edward Kinsella, 44, was seriously injured when he fell 20 feet out of the window of his home in Harrington-street, Sydney. He was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Head-on Smash Ten Persons Injured WINDSOR
When two cars collided head-on on the Windsor-road, at the Vineyards several miles from Windsor, ten persons were hurt, two critically and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THREE-INJURED Motor Cycles Collide
When two motor-cycles collided near the Paterson railway crossing, shortly after 9 o’clock this morning three men were injured. Two were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →13 Injured in Lorry Crash Near Tamworth
Thirteen men were injured when a motor lorry carrying a party of upwards of 20 to a railway repair job between Duri ad Warral on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Muswellbrook Men. Narrow Escapes in Lorry Crash. 13 INJURED
Thirteen men were injured when a motor lorry carrying a party of upwards of 20 to a railway washaway repair job between Duri and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Crash Near Moree Guard and Fireman Injured. 1000 Sheep Killed. Moree
An engine and 15 trucks, part of a special stock train conveying sheep consigned to Queensland, left the rails about 14 miles from Moree on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Manchester’s First Big Raid Heavy Damage Many Injured (British Official Wireless and A,a.p.) London, December 23
Manchester received its first big serial attack last night. The attack lasted for many hours. A large number of fives were started, and considerable damage wag caused to business premises and shops…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidental Death. Death of Mr. William Grant Johnston
Mr. W. T. Seaward, Scone District Coroner, conducted an inquest at Aberdeen into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Cattle Killed by Timber Lorry Heavy Losses in Highway Accident
On the highway, about six miles south of Gloucester, on Thursday afternoon, a timber lorry smashed through a mob of dairy cattle,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holiday Time Is Accident Time
Seven years ago the accident statistics of the State were recorded for the first time. Since then there has been an entry each Christmas of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Injured
While playing under the house at his home in Government-road, Telarah, yesterday afternoon, John Jarrett, 8, struck his right knee on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awaba Smash Cessnock Man Injured
William Black, 40, of King-street, Cessnock, received a fractured nose yesterday when a car he was driving swerved off the Awaba-road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell From Launch Woman Drowned At Prospect SYDNEY
Mrs. Margaret Wootton, 52, of Oatley, was drowned at Consumer. Prospect Creek, when she tell from a Her son recovered her body, and…
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