Three Injured in Head-on Smash
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When a lorry and car collided almost head-on in Prince’s Highway, at Cowell, a few miles from Peat’s…
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Accidents at Cessnock
CESSNOCK, Wed. — Mrs. Cagney, 65, of Tango Creek, near Wollombi, fell at her home today and fractured her right…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. — -Two boys were drowned while playing on a floating log in the Murrumbidgee River at the Uriarra Picnic…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday. Four people were injured last night at Bennett’s Green, north of Belmont, when a car collided with a…
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A 73-year-old woman, who has been an invalid for the past 40 years, had her head injured Yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Additional police patrolled the city last night to prevent robberies from buildings damaged in yesterday’s destructive bailstorm. Owners of all business premises damaged sufficiently to…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. — Coincidence of a low road accident holiday toll and the presence on the main roads of the greatest…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— Warren White, two years and three months, of Hartill-Law Avenue, Earlwood, was drowned in a…
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Thrown from the dinky he was given at Christmas, a two-year-old boy was drowned in a fish-pond 18 inches deep on Saturday…
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CHICAGO, Illinois—(Associated Press)—Animals that shot humans with guns were among the unusual accidents during 1946 reported by the National Safety Council at its meeting here…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — Joseph Thompson (34), of Cumberland street, Cessnock, had his right hand injured by a falling prop at…
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Mrs. Nita Penfold (54), of 48 Victoria street, East Maitland, suffered an incised[?]wound to the thumb and first finger on the…
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Don Tallon, Australia's wicketkeeper, has withdrawn from the Queensland Sheffield Shield team to meet Victoria in Brisbane on…
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SINGLETON, Thurs.— George Thomas Ellerton (55), of Vere, a few miles from town, to-day had a meraculous escape…
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SYDNEY, Friday,—James Pullar, of Elaroo-avenue, La Perouse, three years of age, was knocked down last night and fatally injured…
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BOMBAY, January 10.—Police, armed with rifles and fixed bayonets, Were last night patrolling the area in which rioting yesterday injured 107 persons. Reuter says the trouble arose after two social workers,…
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Whilst out shooting rabbits within the vicinity of the town on Saturday afternoon last, Colin Roger Coward received injuries to the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Five people were injured, two seriously, when a tram and a heavy lorry collided with a terrific impact in Bellevue Hill to-day. The injured were—…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Kenneth McCulIoch, 23, a soldier, was killed when a 15cwt. “blitz waggon” in which he was riding and a car…
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Two youths were injured when their motor cycle ran into the back of a car in High Street, West Maitland, on Saturday night…
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