Brothers Are Drowned Heroic Rescue Attempt SYDNEY
An heroic attempt by a schoolboy to save his brother from drowning in Lake Parramatta ended tragically this afternoon…
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Accident in Lachlan Street. Sequel Told in Court Defendant Convicted
In the Court of Petty Sessions before the P.M., yesterday, Henry Charles Weymouth was charged for that on 25th November he did drive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Time Is Accident Time. (Issued by the Road Safety Council)
Seven years ago the accident statistics of the State were recorded for the first time. Since then there has been an entry at Christmas of at least one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French Accused of Massed Drowning of Natives Bangkok, December 17
French planes on Sunday bombed [?]akornpatom and Mukdahan. One of the raiders was shot down by gun-fire. A Thai communique says that Sunday’s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Whose Spinal Cord Was Injured in R.A.A.F. SYDNEY
[?] a former employee of the Water Bord. Who was awarded [?] damages in 1928 for injuries [?] spinal cord, which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youth Killed in Road Accident Dubbo
Kenneth Fisher Salter, aged 16, was killed and three other youths were admitted to hospital suffering from injuries following the overturning of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lad Drowned At Wagga
Ronald Moore, aged 16, a student of the Wagga High School, was drowned yesterday afternoon in the Murrumbidgee river at Wagga. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Davis Cup Player Killed in Plane Accident Salisbury (Rhodesia), Dec. 17
The Davis Cup player, Ronald Shayes, was killed in a flying accident on the eve of completion of training as A pilot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pigs Cause Accident Wangaratta
As Staff Sergeant T. R. Hall was motoring towards Wangaratta near the Glenrowan railway crossing, a car with a trailer, with two pigs in it,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drowning Accident Internee Loses Life
On Wednesday afternoon, an internee, a member of a working party, lost his life as a result of a drowning accident, in the Murrumbidgee just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train and Car in Collision
Four men had a narrow escape from death on Saturday night at about 8 o’clock when their motor car was involved in a level crossing accident with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers in Train Collision Sydney
A troop train from Tamworth with 200 soldiers aboard collided with a stationary train at Beecroft at 5 a.m. today. The troop train was not travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bonegilla Soldiers in Accident
Motoring from Bonegilla to Melbourne yesterday morning, Pte. G. Richards and his wife, with Pte. S. Blacklow and two other members of the A.I.F., were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Car Accident Dust Obscured Driver’s Vision of Tree
The adjourned inquest into the death of Miss Jeanie Gwenneth Martin, aged 19 years, who died as the result of injuries received when a car in which, she…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sleep Walker Badly Injured Sydney
Edward Kinsella, aged 44, was badly injured today when he fell 20 feet out of a window at his home in the city. He was taken to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Accidentally Shot Melbourne
While crossing a plank over a creek [?] Whittle[?] to-day. Richard Mc-Mahon, aged 15. Nicholson St.. North Fitzroy, dropped the gun he was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Employe Badly Injured
When he fell 30 feet from a transformer in Johnston street, Wagga last night, John Keppie, aged 26, a municipal council employe, sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holiday Time is Accident Time (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Seven years ago' the accident statistics of the State were recorded for the first time. Since then there has been an entry each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horse Causes Fatal Road Accident Brisbane
A motor truck overturned after striking a wandering horse on the Southport road to-day, with the result that Robert Thomas Gaul, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sulky Overturns; Man Injured
An accident occurred on Christmas Eve in Banff Avenue which caused injuries to a man that necessitated him being taken to Albury Hospital for…
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