Boy Drowned In River
GRESFORD: An 8-years-old boy was drowned in the Paterson River yesterday after a fishing trip…
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Car Overturns Mother and Son Injured
Clarence Pracey (33), of Annandale, and his mother, Mrs. Pracey (70), of Redfern, were admitted to Scone…
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Only three accidents were reported in Muswellbrook over the holidays, when traffic was…
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SCONE, Monday — Athol McKenzie (17), of Aberdeen Street, Scone, received a compound fracture of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hand Injured at Abattoir
A Maitland abattoir employee, Robert Ernest Taylor, 29, of George street, East Maitland, received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coroner Found Boy’s Death Accidental
Maitland deputy coroner (Mr. V. R. Jenkins) today returned a verdict accidental death at the in[?] on a 13-years-old boy killed in a collision between a parked semi-trailer and a cordial lorry…
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SYDNEY: A boy said in Burwood Coroner’s Court that six people had ignored his appeals to help a drowning child…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Cars in Collision
GLOUCESTER: In a collision involving three cars Kevin Johnson, of Tinonee, received a severe gash on his…
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NEWCASTLE: An inquest into the deaths of two Maitland residents, June Helen Burgess Foy, 25, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Muswellbrook Men Injured When Wall Collapsed Took Shelter During Storm
Mr. Jack Lowe, and his assistant, Mr. Val McTaggart, both of Muswellbrook, sustained leg injuries in an unusual accident, at Scone on Tuesday last…
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DUNGOG: Kenneth Jon Sensome, 20, of Pacific Highway, Raymond Terrace, was drowned in the Williams River at…
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INVERELL: One man was killed and nine injured in a crash involving three vehicles near Inverell yesterday…
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KEMPSEY: Owen Perry Carney, nine months, of Heron’s Creek, was drowned in Bob’s Creek near “West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Injured When Car Left Road
SINGLETON: Five Fordwich people were injured when a utility truck in which they were riding hit…
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An infant received minor injuries at Aberdeen in an unusual manner. The little one had been put to sleep…
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“The time for platitudes, posters and pleas is gone,” said Mr. H. E. Richards, NRMA general secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Driver Killed In Collision
NEWCASTLE : A man was killed and a woman injured when a car crashed into a stationary car at the…
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BRISBANE: Twenty-two-month-old Darwyn Ashmore Smith was drowned in a water-filled post-hole at his home in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Foot Injured by Skip
CESSNOCK: Daryl Mackenzie, 18, of Wolombi-road, Bellbird a wheeler at Bellbird colliery, had the great to of…
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SYDNEY: A 37-pears-old man, dazed and suffering from a fractured skull, hitch-hiked to Sydney last…
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