Injured in Collision
When his car was involved in a collision with a motor truck near the Rutherford toll bar early this morning, John…
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Child Drowned in Creek
THIRROUL, Sat.—A three-year-old child, holidaying with relatives at Otford, on the South Coast, was drowned in 2ft of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—John William Wynn, 59, fisherman, of Mannering Park, near Morisset, was found drowned near the…
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A member of the R.A.A.F. was fatally injured in a motor cycle accident about midnight last night on the New England…
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LONDON, Dee. 22.—Ten people were injured when unknown persons threw four bombs during Yugoslav…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Victor-Dobell, 11, of North-street, Teraibe, suffered extensive lacerations to his chest and…
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The district Coroner (Mr. R. Clendinning, J.P.) held an inquest into the death of Leslie William Rose, who died from injuries sustained when a…
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Mr. John Crothers, of Anambah, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Crothers of Campbell’s Hill, who was injured in a motor accident…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Jeffrey New, 19, of Eastwood, was drowned in about 5ft of water in the Lane Cove River, near Fuller’s Bridge…
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Ralph McKeough, 33, of Smith-street, East Maitland, an employee of R. H. Taylor, Pty., Ltd., was fixing a spring with a pair…
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A 74-year-old man yesterday dived into the Lane Cove River in an attempt to save his son who sank and was drowned in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A grim warning that unless road behaviour improved, deaths from road accidents this year were likely to exceed the 1946 total of 508 was issued last night by the Executive Vice-President of the State Road…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Of nine people billed in N.S.W. on Christmas Eve and yesterday, only one death resulted from a road accident—the lowest road toll for this period since 1935 when statistics were first compiled…
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With 11, people injured In accidents over Christmas, Maitland Ambulance had one of Its bus periods on record…
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MUSWELLBROOK.—The district Coroner (Mr. R. Clendening, JP), held an inquest into the death of Leslie William Rose,…
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TAMWORTH, Sat. — Shortly before his car, which had staled in a creek crossing, was washed away, a doctor climbed on to a…
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TAMWORTH, Sat. — An 18-months-old baby, Colleen Trindall, Westdale, near Tamwprtli, almost drowned when…
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SYDNEY, Sat. — Alter 100 men had searched “for an hour and a half, a three-year-old boy was found drowned in a disused…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday. — Three men were admitted to Newcastle General Hospital on Saturday night after being involved in a collision…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Sergeant Auld, in charge of Coonabarabran police station, suffered fractured ribs, concession, and injuries to…
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