Christmas Eve Fatality Death of Reg Callaghan Details of the Accident
Further details concerning the death of Mr. Reginald Callaghan, son of Mr. W. Callaghan, of Armidale, in a road accident between Leeton and…
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Six Cars in Two Accidents Passengers Escape [?] Cuts and Abrasions SYDNEY
Two accidents occurred on Pittwater Road yesterday[?], in each of which three carwere involved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roads Claim 50 per cent of Victims Holiday Death-roll Mounts Heavily During New Year Week-end Forty-Four Persons Killed Big Increase on Figures for Previous Years Suburban Car Smashes Many Seriously Injured SYDNEY
Thomas Nixon (40), of Bondi, and Phyllis Smiddy (28), of Bondi, were killed, and Jean Smiddy (20) sustained a fractured skull and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hand Injured In Circular Saw
While working at a circular saw in his woodyard at Woodville yesterday, Jack Doolan suffered severe injuries to his left hand. The thumb on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plane Crashes Pilot Killed Girls Injured LONDON
A training machine crashed onto a Rolls Royce factory at Derby, kitting the pilot and injuring six girls working in the blue print…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Drowned Glen Innes Holiday-makers Tragedy at Evans Head LISMORE
Aubrey Kenneth Biddle (28). general carrier of Dundee, near Glen Innes and his wife. Phyllis Marjorie Biddle (25), were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Couple Drowned Wished Off Cliff Face Victims Lived at Dundee LISMORE
Aubrey Kenneth Biddle (28), general carrier, of Dundee, near Glen Innes, and his wife, Phyllis Marjorie Biddle (25), were drowned when they were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.F. Plane Crashes Pilot Killed: Six Girls Injured LONDON
A training machine crashed on to the Rolls Royce factory at Derby killing the pilot and injuring six girls working in the blue print room…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Accidents Minister to Call for Report
The Minister lot Transport [?] will call for a detailed analysis of the causes of road accidents [?] the Christmas holidays on his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Swept From Rock Mr. and Mrs. Aubbiddle Double Fatality at Evans Head Tragic Holiday
One of the most tragic happenings affecting directly the Glen Innes community which is on record…
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Mr Jake Jobson was a patient at Armidale hospital for some days following an injury he received while travelling: with a party of workers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local News Serious Accident
Mr Jack Doolan met with a serious and very painful accident on Tuesday last. He was engaged sawing wood when his left hand came in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Accidents Mechanical Failure Only Minor Factor
Sriking evidence was recently officially disclosed in London that mechanical failure in automobiles has little to do with motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] Mr. and Mrs. Biddle Drowned
The Northern Star, Lismore, in its time dated Wednesday, gives further particulars of the drowning fatalities resulting in the deaths of Mr. Aubrey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tamworth Fatality Driver and Wife Dozed
"It can be assumed that the driver and his wife dozed," said the Tamworth Coroner (Dr. A. H, McTaggart), at the inquiry into the deaths of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Drowned Trapped in Weir Car Out of Control MELBOURNE
Trapped in a car at the bottom of Glenmaggie Weir yesterday. Mrs. Matilda Power, an elderly woman, was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trapped in Car Elderly Woman Drowned Son's Vain Rescue Effort MELBOURNE
Trapped in a car at the bottom of Glenmaggie Weir yesterday, Mrs. Matilda Power, an elderly woman, was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parkes Tragedy Lorry Crashes Into Train Man Killed: Son Injured SYDNEY
George Packham, of Orange, was killed and his son, Neil, injured when their motor lorry crashed into a goods train at the gasworks level crossing at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] Head on Collision Between Lorry and Cycle Gravesend Man Committed for Trial. Coroner's Warning to Drivers in General
A collision between a motor lorry and a actor cycle on the Gwydir Highway, two miles went from Delungra in the early hours of Christmas morning, was the subject of an enquiry by the Inverell Coroner, Mr. Walter Wilson, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car in Flames Six Persons Injured, One Seriously GEELONG
Six persons were injured, one fatally, when a car, after leaving Anglesea, near Bellbra, last night, crashed through a fence,…
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