Youth Prevents Car Accident. Sydney
Prompt action of Harry Miller, aged 16 averted a serious car accident today when his grandfather fainted at the driving wheel and the car was…
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Two Brothers Drowned Launceston
William Viney, aged 22, and his brother Jack, aged 18, were drowned in Quicksand at Salt wood Lagoon near Bridport yesterday when…
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Walter Arthur Grant, aged 65, of Bridge st Port Melbourne, was drowned when he went for a swim at Bon Beach this afternoon. His body,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Violent Hailstorm Batters Sydney and Suburbs Many People Injured, Much Property Damage SYDNEY
What is believed to be the worst hailstorm on record, caused widespread damage and many casualties in the city and eastern suburbs of Sydney between 2.30 and 2.40 p.m. today. Lumps of hall bigger than cricket balls…
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New Year’s Day at Albury passed without any of the serious accidents that often mar holidays. Neither the ambulance, hospitals, nor police…
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A [?]3-ton truck and a car collided on the Echua road about miles from Moama on Christmas Eve. The occupant of the car, Mr. Kevin Douglas,…
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Enquiries by two Federal Government departments started today into the breakdown of Canberra’s only serviceable ambulance…
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Christmas Bay had a sad termination two motorists and their passengers when their cars met in a head-on collision near Tongala…
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Mr. Edward Bosse, of “Elands,” Mathoura, had an unfortunate accident last Tuesday when driving round his property with a horse and gig. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collision Hurls Wodonga Farmer From Car
A Wodonga farmer. William George Cassidy, suffered only cuts and lacerations when he was thrown from his truck in a collision yesterday. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supplies by Air to Injured Hikers Auckland (N.z.)
Aircraft to-day dropped supplies to six injured hikers on the Mueller Glacier in the Southern Al[?], Bulldozers are clearing a track to enable the…
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When they formed a human chain down the steep bank of the Yarra river this morning, four wireless patrol police saved a soldier from drowning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Little Boy Drowned on His Birthday
Two-year-old son of a Corowa district farmer was drowned on his birthday on Saturday, in a dam. He was Thomas John Tenney, youngest child or Mr and Mrs T. J. Tenney. of “Fernhill.” Lowesdale—about 12 miles from Corowa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drowned Searching for Missing Man SYDNEY
Just before the body of Phillip Kent Cupitt, aged 63, who had been missing for a week near Mittagong, was found on Friday, one of the…
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Knocked down by a truck while riding his bicycle along Geelong rd.. West Footscray, this afternoon, Thomas Whear, aged 60, of Bond St., Yarraville…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Little Boy Drowned in Fish Pond SYDNEY
An infant was drowned in a fish pond at Earlwood this afternoon. He was Warren White, aged two years. The child fell into an 18in pond while…
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A sad drowning fatality occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tenney, at Buraja, on Saturday last when their baby son, Thomas John, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Cyclist Hurt in Collision
When a motor cycle and a cycle collided at the intersection of Dean and Macauley sts. yesterday afternoon, the cyclist. Miss Ivy Panella, of Smollett…
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While his two young sisters watched helplessly on the bank, Raymond Colin Peacock, seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Peacock, of Boundary road,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bad Weather Causes Air Accidents Three Killed in One Crash. New York
Bad weather which prevailed throughout the country today was responsible for one fatal air crash, and a narrow escape for passengers…
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