Two Injured Men Still Serious, One Discharged
One of the two police-officers injured in the accident on Bulli Pass last Monday night, was discharged from Bulli Hospital on Saturday. He is Constable A. L. Holland…
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Injured Footballer Lies in Rain While Ambulance Men Wrestle with Locked Telephone Offices
Because no telephone was available, star Western Suburbs footballer Duncan McCelland lay injured in pouring rain at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crown Street Smash— May Be Injured For Life. Says Doctor "Vehicle Not Safe" States N.R.M.A. MECHANIC
From the dreadful injuries he received in Crown Street, Wollongong, on the afternoon of October 20, 1949, when a motor lorry crashed through a window, taking him with it, there is…
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Brick Transport Pty. Ltd., Woonona, writes: I note that in your issue, March 28, in which you described the unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirroul Steel Worker Injured
Ronald Richards, 36, of High Street, Thirroul, was admitted yesterday to the Wollongong District Hospital suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident Put Damper on Balgownie After Two Good Wins
Although with two good wins at Concord last Saturday, our spirits were dampened by the loss of our promising outside…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Was Speeding Because of Injured Shoulder
A truck driver who admitted to the police that he was speeding offered as an excuse that "he had done his shoulder in &…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Drowned In Flood; New Threat to Wagga
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While the disastrous and widespread floods in New South Wales are easing in most central towns, a nine-year-old boy was drowned in the raging Talbragar River, near?…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured Man's Plight in Wharf Travelling Crane
When Leonard Francis Morthorpe, 35, of 104 Shellharbour Road, Port Kembla, had a foot badly crushed in a travelling crane high above No. 3 jetty at Port Kembla on Tuesday afternoon, his rescue provided a ticklish problem for Illawarra District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rail Accident Victim Dies
Arthur Walter Jacobs, the 27-year-old. Wollongong... fettler. whose legs were severed by a train at Bull on Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legs Severed in Rail Accident at Bulli
When a man was run over by a train and both legs practically severed just below the knees, prompt first aid measures by a railway officer probably saved his life…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Drowned At Canberra
CANBERRA, Friday. — Leslie Savage, 45, of West Avenue, Queanbeyan, was drowned this morning while attempting to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Presentation To Injured Youth
At the height of the flood rains on Thursday night a presentation dance was held at Coledale Diggers' Hall to mark…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Injured on Way to Ambulance Station
A man who was driving himself to the Ambulance Station for attention to an injured finger on Saturday fainted at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured Constable Taken to Prince Henry Hospital
Constable R. Green, of. Bulli, who was 'seriously injured in a motor cycle accident on Bulli Pass on March 27, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Accident After Another
After meeting with an accident at his home at West Wollongong and while driving his car to Illawarra District…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Accidents Cyclist Over Safety Fence
When his bicycle got out of control on Bulli Pass and struck the safety fence at The Elbow on Friday morning, George…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stone in Road Caused Bulli Fatality
A stone in the middle of the road was the cause of a fatal accident on the Prince's Highway near the Appin turn-off, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Traffic But Few Accidents
Inspector J. Hill, of Wollongong said last night Easier traffic had been "particularly heavy", but that police had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eighteen Believed Drowned
NANTUCKET (Massachusetts), Tuesday (A.A.P.)— Eighteen men from two fishing vessels are believed to have drowned in a wild…
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