Heavy Road Toll Shocking Figures. of N.s.w. Accidents
Official figures for the year ending June 30, reveal that deaths in road accidents have increased by 28.5 percent. There were 9883 accidents,…
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Supreme Court Judge Injured Car Overturns
Suffering from head Injuries and Shock received when his motor car overturned on the Hume Highway on Monday, Mr. Justice Macfarlan, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall From Horse Mr. Walter Hynes Injured
Whilst proceeding along the road at North Deniliquin yesterday afternoon, Mr. Walter Hynes was dislodged from his horse, and was thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Child Drowned Fatality at Womboota
Losing his balance while playing at the edge of a dam on Monday, Douglas, aged three years, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Griffiths, of…
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Two children were drowned in waterholes on Saturday. Ronald Francis Lawler, 2 years, of Woollahra, was drowned in a pond near his home…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Supreme Court Judge Injured Accident Near Gundagai
Suffering from head injuries and shock received when his motor car overturned on the Hume Highway on Monday, Mr. Justice Macfarlan, of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Cyclist Injured
When a motor cycle which he was riding overturned on the Murray bridge at Echuca on Saturday evening, Edward Felshaw struck the decking with such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Drowned Walked Into Quarry Hole
Jumping into a water hole, which was covered with thick weed, at the Metropolitan Board of Works farm, near the mouth of the Werribee River…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Henty Farmer Injured Working Tractor
Mr. D. Kendall, a farmer at Henty, working a tractor when the engine stalled. While endeavoring to crank it the engine back-fired, the handle…
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A serious accident was narrowly averted by the prompt action of the crew of the Tomora-Griffith train when, four miles beyond Kamarah, a sedan…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Man's Death Accidentally Drank Poison
Harry Trench, 45, an engineer, died after drinking liniment in mistake for a sleeping draught at his home in Coorgee. His wife heard him call that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fatal Accident at Lovel Crossing
Mrs. Pearl Cox (12) was killed and her husband and thre children were injured, when an electric train crashed into their motor car at a level…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sad Fatality at W[?] Boota Child Drowned in D[?]
Deep sympathy will be exte[?] Mr. and Mrs. J. Griffiths, of boota, in the death of their son has, aged 3 years, by drowning…
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While Mr. H. Weish was engaged at his work on a lorry at the rear of Messrs Dixon's Ltd. hardware store on Monday afternoon he met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning Fatality
Reginald Wilson, aged 34 years, senior operator for the State Electricity Commission at Rubicon, was drowned when he endeavoured to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cricketer Injured
While playing in the match Corowa v. Chiltern, at the Recreation Reserve on Saturday afternoon last, W. Harris, a member of the Corowa…
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Ronald Withy, 18 years, of Adamstown, was killed and Charles Harvey, 19 years, and Donald Henderson, 40 years, also of Adamstown, were…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Deaf Mute Killed in Collision Was Riiding Motor-cycle
Claude A. T. Graham, aged 50 years, of Wellington parade, East Melbourne, was killed in a collision which, occurred between a motor-car and a…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Plane Crash in Italy. Twenty Killed; Forty Injured. ROME
It was disclosed to-day that 20 were killed and 40 injured when a bombing plane crashed in the Lepini Mountains. Sixteen of those killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Car Accident. Adelaide
Ernest Edward James (52), undertaker, and Francis Henry Edmondson (50), undertakers assistant, were killed, and Allan James Bigham…
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