A Safe Christmas. How to Reduce Accidents
The Christmas holiday season, desired by all to be a time of happiness and recreation, too often is married for hundreds of…
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Advice to Holiday-makers Exercise of Caution Accidents Will Then Be Avoided
To avoid accidents and injuries during the Christmas vacation, holiday-makers should exercise caution. This sound advice is given…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Deputy Labor-leader and Family in Car Accident Sydney
The Deputy-Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Forde) and his wife and three daughters were slightly injured when a car in which they were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor Accident Visitor to Balranald Injured
Returning by Car from seeing some of his clients at The Rocks, Mr. W. Harrison, a tomato buyer of Sydney, received severe injuries when he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Hits Sydney; Snow in New Zealand Strange Christmas Weather Much Damage Done in Suburbs 16 Persons Injured; First Rain in City For 24 Days SYDNEY
This Christmas the weather is playing strange tricks. A message from Wellington (N.Z.) states that for the first time in history in December, four heavy falls of snow were experienced in the Mt. Egmont district to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Bad Holiday Accident Three Men Killed Car Plunges Over Cliffs Wellington (N.z.)
When a two-seater car swerved off the road and plunged 300 feet down a cliff near Opotoki, east or Rotorua, to-day, three young men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Drowned When Fishing Boat Overturns Near Melbourne MELBOURNE
Five persons are believed to have been drowned when a fishing boat overturned about a mile off Chelsea to-day. The body of one man has been recovered and has since been identified as Reginald Spillane, jun., about 23, salesman, of Canterbury…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Garage Explosion Two Men Injured Building Partly Wrecked Melbourne
William Byrne, aged 47, or Alma road, St. Kilda, and Ray Smith, aged 20, of Robe street, St. Kilda, narrowly escaped serious…
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Ten persons were involved in a head-on collision at Woody Point, a beach resort, to-day. One occupant, an infant aged three months, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy, Aged 7, Drowned Newcastle
Allan William Jones, aged 7, of Smedmore. was drowned, when he fell from a boat in Therosby Creek, Wickham, to-day. His eight-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned in Bay Bodies of Men Not Seen Father and Two Sons Among Victims MELBOURNE
Although little hope is held that the bodies of four men who were drowned in the sea off Edithvale on Monday will be recovered, the police are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Number of Accidents Shock Police Sydney
Shocked by the number or fatal accidents during the holiday period. police officials to-day drafted additional men to the road patrols and put…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duty of Citizens in Reducing Road Accidents
Newcastle is the first city with a branch of the Road Safety Council of N.S.W. Other districts to be asked almost immediately to move for…
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Ernest Richardson, butcher, while delivering orders on his bicycle at Wangaratta (Vic.), was struck by a motor car near the Ovens bridge…
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Ernest Richardson, butcher, while delivering orders on his bicycle at Wangaratta (Vic), was struck by a motor car near the Ovens bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Saved From Drowning Brisbane
Through the resource and knowledge of school-children, the 3½ year old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Seib, of Eumundi, was saved from drowning in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Children Drowned Murray Tragedy
Two Victorian children were drowned in the Murray River on Sunday at Goodnight, about 50 miles from Moulamein…
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Two Victorian children were drowned in the Murray River on Sunday at Goodnight, about 50 miles from Moulamein…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowned in Creek Tragedy at Wodonga
"I saw the boy swim out into the middle of the stream and sink. Ho came to the surface three times and. then disappeared," Sydney Martin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned in Creek Tragedy at Wodonga
"I saw the boy swim out into the middle of the stream and sink. He came to the surface three times and then disappeared," Sydney Martin…
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