Only One Accident Over Holidays — Despite Heaviest Traffic Since Pre-war
Traffic on the Pacific Highway through the Gloucester Shire during the Christmas and New Year holiday period was almost back to…
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Port-wauchope Accident Free
The Hastings district ambulance staff stationed at Port Macquarie and Wauchope, did not deal with one serious…
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A 16-year-old lifesaver, Mervyn Fletcher, was drowned at Dee Why surf carnival on Saturday. The tragedy, the first of its kind…
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A large party of police and civilians is hurrying to the rescue of a sick Victorian man marooned in a snowbound hut in the north-west…
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A shocking motor fatality occurred on the Pacific Highway about four miles south of Kempsey on Friday, when Mrs. Miriam McKenley, of…
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At 7.50 p.m. on January 2, Auriel May Gaddes, aged 15 years, was riding home on her bicycle on the Pacific Highway near Nambucca Heads. As…
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During the holidays, a young lady visitor, Miss R. Fawcett, aged 17 years, from Hurstville, met with a painful injury at Brighton, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Head-on Collision at Tataatee Creek — Traffic Case Adjourned
In the Gloucester Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday Mr. F. G. Pocock. S.M., adjourned to the Petty Sessions on February 14 a case in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Over Embankment at Rookhurst. Bank Valuator Injured
Henry George Collins, 55, of North wood near Lane Cove, Sydney, a Commonwealth Bank valuator, had his nose fractured and his two eyes…
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By a strange coincidence two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Wright, of Tuncurry, each had an arm broken during the holiday…
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When a car in which she was returning from a holiday up north crashed into Stumpy Creek Bridge, four miles from Kempsey, on Friday…
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Four Taree men found their luck well out on a visit to the greyhound race meeting at Newcastle, on Wednesday night…
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When a car went over a culvert near Belbora, on the Pacific Highway, on Friday and plunged into a creek on its side, a woman who was…
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Four Taree men found their luck well out on a visit to the Greyhound race meeting at Newcastle, last week…
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When he slipped and fell whilst painting at Mr. Elliott's home at Forster, on Friday. Mr. Ernest Robson, aged 73, sustained a compound…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wingham Droving Fatality Coroner's Inquest
At the Wingham Court House on Wednesday, 11th January, the Coroner, Mr Paul Cooney, J.P., conducted an inquiry into the circumstances of the…
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Mr Ernest Robson, 73 years of age, and a much respected resident of the town, had a bad fall on Friday last, whilst painting at Mr Elliott's home. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hannam Vale Couple Had Double Accident
On Monday, while going to get assistance for her husband who had been injured when a log rolled on his foot, Mrs. C. Drury, of…
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A well-known Gladstone man, Walter J. Peterson, is believed to have lost his life while crossing the Macleay River between Smithtown and Gladstone during the height of gale force winds in the…
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Whilst playing at her home in Cornwall Street with another child on Monday last, Hewson Forbes, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J…
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