Estate Agent's Serious Accident. Sydney
Reuben Dunban, 75, auctioneer and estate agent, of Woy Woy, was about to board a train for Gosford this morning when he slipped, one wheel…
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Drowning Fatality
Friday morning, about 8, says The Manning River Times, when Mr. John Ryan, jr., of Oxley Island, pulled in to Connell's wharf at Taree to tie up he…
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This is the time of the year when there are more deaths, in road accidents than at any other period. Experience over the last five years has…
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After playing tennis in Bellbrook last Saturday afternoon, Miss Zoe Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Scott, Gap Creek, was found at dusk…
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On Wednesday afternoon Pilot Officer Cliff Johnstone, in charge of the Equipment Branch of the Air Force and stationed at Cootamundra, a…
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In the course of his duty one day last week (reports Dorrigo "Gazette"), Mr. W. P. McSkimming, electrical engineer, met with a…
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Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during, the last two weeks. They, were the careless use of…
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Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during the last two weeks. They were the…
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On Friday afternoon last Mr. Thomas Bryant, aged 75 years, was fatally injured while walking along the road some little distance past the…
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Peter Joseph Tognolini was charged with having failed to report a motor Car accident within the stipulated time. Defendant pleaded guilty…
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I saw a strange accident the other day. A lady stopped her car,' switched the engine off, applied the handbrake, and left the car in gear, which…
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Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during the last two weeks. They were the…
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Friday night last whilst walking down the Greenhill road, Mr. John Bryant was struck by a motor truck find, sustained a skull fracture…
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Sliding down a board while at school on Wednesday, Geoff Eagletcn, aged six years, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Eagleton, of River-street, West…
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While playing in the yard of his parents' residence at River-street, West Kempsey, Peter, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Davis, ran a splinter of…
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Last week, at Worka Homestead, Wirrimbi, Mr. Ben Bowneck discovered his wife wrestling with a shirt in the washtub -- the dirty shirt had…
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At midnight on Tuesday the Road Safety Council had been advised of 37 deaths in road accidents during May. More than three-fourths of the…
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Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during the last two weeks (states the Road…
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This is the time of the year when there are more deaths in road accidents than at any other period. Experience over the last five years has…
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At midnight on Tuesday the Road Safety Council had been advised of 37 deaths in road accidents during May. More than three-fourths of the…
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