Workmen Injured One Has Leg Amputated
Tunnel worker, Edward Williams (27), of 190 Wilson street, Newtown, had the lower portion of his right leg…
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Both Legs Broken in Crane Accident
A labourer had both his legs broken last Thursday morning when he fell thirty feet to the ground from a crane scaffolding…
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Arising out of an accident on July 24, 1948, when an employee was drawn into a furnace and received injuries which subsequently proved fatal, Lysaghts Works Pty. Ltd. was fined £10 by Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., at the…
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John Bede Lane (38), of Corrimal, died in the Wollongong District Hospital on Sunday morning as the result of…
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A man injured at Lysaghts works on Saturday, died on Sunday at Wollongong Hospital He was John Bede Lane (38) of…
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There are Emily Post rules of etiquette for the highway, just as there are for the drawingroom, according to Mr. Jephcott,…
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Two passengers in the front seat of a utility were injured last Friday when it collided with the rear of a motor-lorry on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accident on Way to Fishing Holiday
A party of Sydney residents, who were on their way in a utility truck to the Far South Coast to spend a fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Elderly Man Fatally Injured
William J. Garbutt (66). of Reddall Parade, Lake Illawarra South, was fatally, injured in an accident at his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fatal Accident at Shellharbour
On Monday evening a collison occurred between a sedan car and a truck on the Prince's Highway, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nth. Wollongong Fatality Accidental
A fatality on the top of the overhead bridge at North Wollongong, on January 18, when a man and his granddaughter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Bridge Dangerous'" Says Solicitor at Inquest Into Double Fatality
As an inquest at Wollongong [?] Tuesday, attention was drawn to the dangerous [?] way at the North Wollongong railway overhead judge. Mr. [?] Duncan senr., solicitor, said there had been a [?] of [?] on the bridge over the…
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A carpenter, working in Old Bulli Colliery suffered a fractured spine and other injuries when a set of ten skips…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Age Tells in Road Accidents
About half of the 180 pedestrians killed, in road accidents in New South Wales last year were over 60 years of age…
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Two employees of the Vaccuum Oil Co. had a narrow escape when the car in which they were travelling Was wrecked when struck by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl Fatally Injured
Annie Isabel Scott (22), of Fairy st., Gwynneville, died in the Wollongong District Hospital on Sunday morning from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schoolboy Drowned At Port Kembla
A schoolboy wad drowned in the surf at Port Kembla yesterday afternoon. He was Robert Downes, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Time Is Accident Time
Serious warning was issued by Mr. Jephcott, of the Wollongong Branch of the Road Safety Council yesterday against the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accident Caused by Road Says Solicitor
A Solicitor claimed at Wollongong Court on Tuesday that the "deplorable condition of Cowper Street, Port Kembla," was…
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A 13-years-old girl had a miraculous escape from serious injury on Monday when she was thrown beneath a moving…
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