Boy on Holidays Drowned
ADELAIDE, Thurs.: A seven-year-old boy holidaying with his parents in a caravan at Renmark was drowned in Lake Bonney…
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Mother, Two Children Drowned
PORT MORESBY, Thurs.: A 30-year-old missionary early on Monday morning saw his wife and two small sons swept away…
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Two cars were slightly damaged in a collision at the junction of Melbourne road and High street, Wodonga, last evening…
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ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Twenty-five thousand people attending the opening of the new motor racing track at Port Wakefield,…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A man was drowned and a youth is missing, believed to have been drowned, when six people were washed to sea at Kilcare Beach, near Woy Woy, today. The dead man was Frank Roffey, 43, of Bornafin rd., Hunters Hill…
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Four members of a family, were injured, one critically, in an accident involving four motor vehicles on the Murray Valley Highway, near Ebden railway station, yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY. Fri:: A man was drowned when he collapsed and fell from his launch into Cook’s River today…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Professional cyclist Rex Kelly, 22. of Geelong, died in Mooroopna Base Hospital today after he had crashed into…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.; Jack Purtell, Victoria’s leading jockey, is fighting for his life in Alfred Hospital tonight. He was injured in a race…
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A slight improvement has accrued in the condition of six-year-old Colin Jory, who was admitted to Albury Hospital…
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HOBART, Fri.: Alwyn Brown, 24, of Albert road, Moonah, died this morning as a result of severe internal injuries sustained in a…
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WAGGA, Sun.: A 22-year-old Junee man was drowned while swimming in the Murrumbidgee river at Oura, about 7 miles from…
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Three persons escaped serious injury yesterday morning when a car overturned on the Culcairn-Henty road, about two…
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Miss Zelpher Ware (17) was drowned on Sunday when she fell into 15 feet of water from a concrete promanade bordering…
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Albury police yesterday released the name of the man who found drowned in the Murray ray river on Saturday evening…
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Herbert Edwin Green, aged 48 years, was drowned in the Billabong Creek at Boonoke on Christmas Day…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon.: Irked by the poor suburban railway service, travellers rioted in the main station on Saturday night and 11…
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In New South Wales for 12 months to Jane 30 there were 22.662 accidents which resulted in 741 deaths and injury to…
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HOBART, Tues.: The Registrar of the Supreme Court, Robert William Foale, 38, of Warwick st., Hobart, was drowned when a boat…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: One man was killed and another badly injured when a crowded passenger bus collided with a small…
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