Motor Cycle Fatality Youth Dies on Way to Hospital
A 20-year-old youth was killed at Dingadee, four miles from Dungog on Sunday afternoon, when his motor cycle skidded In loose gravel and…
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Seventeen Drowned
MOMBASA, Oct. 5.—Seventeen people were drowned when a private bus, taking 32 wedding guests from Mombasa to Tanga,…
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Two men were taken to Maitland Hospital, following an accident Involving a motor cycle and a bicycle in Newcastle-road, East…
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Struck by a piece of coal while at work at Aberdare Extended Colliery yesterday, James Wright, 32, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, received…
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When the car in which they were passenger [?] a pole near the Victoria Bridge, over Wallis Creek, last night two men were…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—Colin Mile, 7, of Mayfield st., Cessnock, injured his head In a fall off a tree yesterday…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Joe Confi[?]r, a butcher, 22 of Nile-street, Mayfield, was preparing meat in McGavin’s Butchery,…
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To children in the country the most obvious and most useful form of transport is a push bike. Inexpensive, it is the ideal method of travel for children and adults alike, but the drawback with, giving a child a bike, most parents feel, is the…
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An 18-years-old youth fratched this right thigh to-day when his bicycle became involved in a collision with a motor van at the…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed.—A motor cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with a truck at Wallsend today…
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Struck by a fall of coal at Pelaw Main colliery yesterday, E. Warren, 33. a miner, of Seventh-street, Weston, had his left hand injured…
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John Gray, 7, of Main-street, Cessnock, received a probabie ce[?] of his thigh when he slipped at school this morning…
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CESSNOCK, Friday. — Kevin Ackroyd, 26, of Anzac Avenue. Cessnock, a clipper employed at Aberdare Extended colliery,…
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A retired Methodist minister was injured and two other people were slightly hurt when a car and a semi-trailer lorry collided on…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—A honeymoon couple were injured, the husband seriously, when they jumped from a second storey of a private…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — James Dryden, 30, of West Avenue, Cessnock, a shiftman employed at Millfield colliery, had his right…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Maritime Services Board will hold an inquiry into the collision last night of the [?]…
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James Dryden, 30, shiftman, of West-avenue, Cessnock, received extensive lacerations to the Index finger of his right hand when he…
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Hundreds of people are searching for the bodies of six men who were swept to their death over a spillway at Burrinjuck Dam this…
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At Cessnock No. 1 colliery yesterday morning, William Philips, 22, loco driver, of Elizabeth-street, Cessnock, struck his nose on a loco…
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