Boy Saved From Drowning
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A Revesby builder, Robert Sands, 32, today rescued a two-year-old boy, Peter Ross, of Revesby, whom he…
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Albury Footballer Badly Injured
A PROMINENT Albury footballer was seriously injured in a car crash at Wodonga late on Monday evening. He is LOY STEWART, of Macaulay car crash is in Albury District Hospital suffering from a fractured skull and lacerations to the forehead. (The car is pictured above.)…
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THE City Coroner (Mr. A. R. Raschke) to-day found that the bullet wound which caused the death of [?] Leonard Knight in Prince Alfred Park on [?] 8 was accidentally inflicted…
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Former Wodonga railway employe, George Alphonsus Celestine Clark, 56, died in Albury Hospital on August 19 last from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Footballers Bus — Semi-trailer Collision Coroner’s Accident Finding at Inquest at Chiltern
COLLISION between a footballers’ bus and a stationary semi-trailer on Hume Highway near Chiltern on the night of July 16 last, which resulted in the deaths of three-men, was accidental, Chiltern Coroner (Mr. C. D. Martin) found yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flame Throwers May Be Used on Drowned Stock SYDNEY
So huge is the job of disposing of carcases of drowned stock in the Kempsey flood area that flame throwers may be used. Hundreds of dead stock are being washed up on the beaches as quickly as they are towed as much as two miles out to sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tallangatta Youth Critically Injured
As the result of a raod accident, the pillion passenger on a motor cycle. Bay Freyer, 19, of Groat st., Tallangatta, was…
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CAMDEN, Mon: A Campbell town footballer who ignored a warning not to return to the field after he had been injured in a Group 6 Rugby…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →50 People Injured in Violent Clashes at Robeson Concert New York
AT least 50 people were injured, four seriously, yesterday when anti-Communist demonstrators attacked cars and buses leaving an open-air concert given by negro singer Paul Robeson, in an abandoned golf course at Peekskill, about 40 miles from New York…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]Rail Tricycle Crashes Into Stock Train [?]ne Killed, Three Injured
LITHGOW, Wed.: One man was killed instantly and three others injured when a fast moving stock train crashed head-on…
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TWENTY persons were injured by flying glass, one seriously, when 45 windows of the first division of the Melbourne Express were shattered by a wool bale protruding from a passing goods train near Yass late last night. The seriously injured person,…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Herbert Smith, 43, Church st., Glen Innes, was fatally injured when run over by a car near his home last night. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stowaway Believed Drowned
BRISBANE, Tues.: The master of the freighter King Robert, has advised the ship’s agents that Henry Edward Gordon, of West…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Condition of Accident Victim Still Critical
Condition of James Sutherland, 15 years, of North Albury, who was injured when knocked down by a motor cycle on Wagga rd.,…
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FURTHER damages totalling £3420 were awarded against Orara Shire Council in the Banco Court to-day. They are in respect of one…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Patrick Francis Nagel, 59, a Widower, of Miranda, was found dead in eight inches of water. Nagel’s head was lying…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Police tonight Identified a 47 years old man who was killed last night when he was struck by a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men Injured when Tracks Collide
Drivers and passengers narrowly escaped serious injury on Friday night when two motor lorries collided on the Echuca…
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AFTER he had recorded his finding following the inquest into the death of Ernest Edward Watts, aged 4½ years, Mr. A. J. Cronm, J.P., the district coroner, advised the parents to exercise greater supervision in future over their children. The inquest was held at the Court House on Friday morning…
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NEWTON (North Carolina), Tues.: About 30 persons were injured, some critically, when a speeding train of the Southern…
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