Airman Drowned
BRISBANE, Thurs.: Roy Robert Symonds, 22, a member of the R.A.A.F. on leave from Victoria, was drowned at Caloundra on the…
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Five Die in Tanker Collision
NEW YORK. Thurs.: Rescue workers yesterday recovered five bodies from the Delaware River following a collision between two…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Two people were killed in Victorian road accidents today. John Brighton (81), of Yarra Glen, died on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baby Girl Drowned
Grace Yvonne Parkinson, 16 months, was accidentally drowned in Nine Mile Creek, Stanley, yesterday, the childâs mother…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Migrant on way to Bonegilla jumps from car: badly injured
WAGGA, Fri.: A migrant today dived through the window of a car travelling at 50 m.p.h. along the Wagga-Albury road in a desperate attempt to escape his guards. The migrant, 55-year-old Stefan Pietroszys, was being returned by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident-free New Year’s Eve in Albury
ALBURYâS New Yearâs Eve passed without any accidents in the city. Although thousands packed the Post office corner at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Young Albury man figures in dramatic rescue of drowning youth
A young Albury man who drove about 750 miles return trip to Dubbo between Wednesday night and early on New Yearâs Day rescued a youth from drowning that afternoon in the Murray River near the waterworks. He is 21-year-old Noel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Injured Migrant Has 50/50 Chance of Survival”
WAGGA, Sun.: A migrant who threw himself from a speeding car near Yerong Creek on Friday afternoon was still in a critical condition tonight. A resident doctor at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drowning Tragedy Mars Christmas Festivities
The seven year old girl who was drowned in the river at McLean Beach on December 27 was on holidays in Deniliquin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir T, White in London accident
LONDON, Tues.: The Australian High Commissioner (Sir Thomas White) escaped with a shaking when another car crashed into the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Girl Saves Boy From Drowning
WAGGA, Wed.: The heroism of a 14 years old Uranquinty girl, Valerie Castle, played a major part is saving a young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Drowned When Launch Overturns
BRISBANE, Wed.: When a small motor launch overturned on Maroochy River, at Maroochydore, 80 miles north of Brisbane,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →20,000 road accidents in three months
CANBERRA, Wed.: There were 20,131 rood accidents in Australia in the three months to the end of last September. This was slightly lower…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Married couple injured
Two young married people were injured in a collision yesterday between their small car and another car on the Hume…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Negligence Alleged in Street Collision
Although he claimed to have no knowledge of a collision, and that his own vehicle had been damaged when he was inside an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Accident
Mr. W Kuhne, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Kuhne "Karimba," Rand, sustained severe injury from burna received when a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident to Rutherglen Farmer
On Wednesday morning a painful accident befel Mr Jack Wood. He was operating a tractor and harvester in the wheat paddock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Car Damaged in Collision
An Albury man had his almost brand-new Customline Ford car extensively damaged in a collision with another vehicle last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Youths, Two Boys Drowned
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Two youths and two boys were drowned In tragedies in widely separated parts of Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man fatally injured in fall
KURRI, Fri.: A man was fatally injured today when he full from the top of a pole on which he was working on to high voltage…
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