Escaped Drowning When Boat Overturned
When their boat swung broadside on in a fast-breaking tide and overturned at Brunswick Heads yesterday afternoon, three men, Messrs…
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Two Injured Car and Motor Cycle Collide Em Accident
A man and a woman, who were riding a motor cycle, were injured this morning when they crashed into a car a it attempted to turn into…
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When a car crashed 20 feet over an embankment at the cocher of Mount and Division streets, Coogee, this morning three persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wife Killed and Husband Injured Car Overturns on Prince's Highway
Mrs Eloise Rowlands, aged 20, of Grove Avenue, Penshurst, was killed, and her husband, Arthur Rowlands, 25, of the same address, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →JOCKEY McMENAMIN Injured Catapulted From Horse at Barrier. Sydney
Jockey E. McMenamin was injured at Randwick races this afternoon, when he was catapulted from Skerries as it dived at the tapes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Neurosis Cause of Some Road Accidents Official View (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wale )
When the [?] road accident [?] are available for 1940 it is certain that a substantial reduction will be shown for New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fewer Deaths Newcastle Coroner’s Report Road Accidents Newcastle
Few road accident fatalities were reported to the Newcastle Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chlplin) in 1940 than in the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hand Injured Detonator Explodes
When a detonator exploded while [?]e was working at the Waterloo Brick Company this morning, Brian Scanlon, 37, a shot-firer, of 192…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youths Injured Sydney
Two youths were injured when a motor car struck an electric light pole at St. Peters. They were Dennis Tritten, 18, of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cars Damaged Collision at East Maitland
Two cars were badly damaged soon after mild-day today following a collision at the corner of Lawes and High-streets, East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surf Tragedy Drowned at Brunswick Heads SYDNEY
Gordon Hepburn 24, bank clerk, of [?]bank near Lismore, was crowded at South Beach Brunswick Heads yesterday. I was the first fatality there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Injured Motor Cycle and Car Collide
Arthur Schumacher, 20, of Odd-street, West Maitland, was injured about mid-day today when he collided with a motor car while riding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Injured Motor Mishap at Googee SYDNEY
When a motor car swerved off the road at the intersection of Mount-street and Division-street, Coogee, the three occupants were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Car-tram Smash Three Women Injured SYDNEY
A collision between a motor car and a tram at Marrickville resulted in three women being injured. Mrs. Josephine O’Brien, 60, Long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn Business Man Drowned
While swimming in Mulwaree River with two of his children on New Year's Day Christopher Marsden, 61, a well-known Goulburn business man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Action Praised Rescue of Drowning Man SYDNEY
James Edward Smith, of Annandale on the night of December 10, dived into shark-infested waters in the harbour to rescue a man who had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured in Collision
When two cars collided at the intersection of Kemp and Union Streets, Newcastle, last night, Mrs Grace Waterhouse, of Glengarrie…
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Henry Joseph Trott, of 68 Artarmon Road, Willoughby, was swept off the rocks at Long Reef on Saturday afternoon and drowned. A big wave…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Injured in Fall
Heather Marquet, 20, of Thornton, slipped and struck her head on the floor of the T. and G. Building in Hunter-street, Newcastle, just before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pawed by Horse Young Man Injured
When he was working with a horse in a paddock near his home o Saturday. Peter Montgomery, 17, of Russell-street, Horseshoe Bend, West…
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