Victim of Drowning Endeavoured to Aid Friend MELBOURNE
A brave attempt by Norman Gilley (14½), of North Melbourne, to save Lidro Riggo (15) from drowning in Maribyrnong River resulted in Giliey…
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Boy Drowned Attempt to Save Mate MELBOURNE
A brave attempt by Norman Gilley, fourteen and a half, of North Melbourne, to save his companion, Lidrie Riggio, fifteen, from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collision at Street Corner Women Motorists Escape Serious Injury
A woman motorist was fortunate to escape serious injury when her sports car and a utility truck collided at the intersection of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Riots in Lucknow Three Dead, 35 Injured LUCKNOW
Three people were killed and 35 injured in clashes between two Moslem sects. The injured included four lice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Fall From Ladder "Accidental Death," Says Coroner
A verdict of death from haemorrhage of the brain resulting froth a fall from. It ladder was returned by the District Coroner…
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Most unusual accident of the month is that of injuries caused to a woman through a cauliflower falling from a truck and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unusual Accidents Often Bring Tragedy Vehicles Must Be Loaded Securely Issued by the Road Safely Council of New South Wales.)
Most unusual accident of the month is that of injuries caused to a woman through a cauliflower failing from a truck and smashing…
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John Bromwich, the well known tennis player, sustained slight concussion, injuries to the face and a bruised knee when a car in which he…
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Most unusual accident of the month is that of injuries caused to a woman through a caulibower failing from a truck and smashing the windscreen of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Paris Road Accidents
Paris road accidents totalled 453 deaths in 1938. 506 in 1939. The total of accidents. including those of a non-fatal character, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Killed Two Injured Motor Accident ADELAIDE
Three persons were killed and 2 injured, one critically, when a motor car, after ploughing through an acre of water on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents to Children Impulsive Running Across Roadway Parental Education Necessary
Parents, more than any others, could have helped in preventing most of these accidents. Children under seven years of age…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis Player Injured
John Bromwich, one of the four tennis players who recently visited Warialda, met with an accident when proceeding to Brisbane the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Overturns Armidale Residents Injured
Two were injured. one seriously when a small touring car skidded on a loose surface on the Bundarra road Yarrowyck, 26 miles from Armidale…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heinkel Bomber Crashes Inflames Strikes Residential Area Forty People Injured LONDON
Enemy aeroplanes approached the south-east coast at several points late last night. The Air Ministry announces that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Found Injured Possible Fracture of Spine Believed to Have Fallen From Window SYDNEY
Soon after returning from hospital, where her husband, Dr. G. Hall Bohrsmann (35), had died from acute appendicitis, Mrs. Bohrsmann (25) was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heinkel Crash on English Town Six Civilians Killed; 156 Injured LONDON
Four German airmen and six British civilians were killed and 154 persons were injured and 50 homes damaged when a Heinkel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →These Cause Accidents Straying Stock
Reports of road accidents throughout the State show that there is a noticeable increase in these caused by straying stock on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Soldiers Killed Result of Motor Collision HOBART
William George Parsley, 29, and Cyril William Wilson, 39, both members of the Army Medical Corps were killed last night, when…
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