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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents
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The Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) instituted to-day the promised detailed analysis of the causes of the Christmas and New Year road accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—In giving thought to the grave problem of road accidents and the death roll, two facts stand out very clearly. The first is that a large number of fools…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thomas Blissett, 23, of Cardiff, was cutting blocks of ice with a circular saw at the Crossroads Iceworks, when his right hand slipped against the saw. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bede McGuirk of Rose Street, Tighe's Hill, an apprentice fitter at Cardiff Railway Workshops, was taken to Newcastle Hospital by Lake Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Maitland District Coroner (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) will conduct an inquest at the East Maitland Courthouse to-day into the death of Alexander Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At daybreak to-day searchers recovered portion of the mutilated body of Aubrey Kenneth Biddle, 28, who was drowned yesterday with his wife, Phyllis Biddle,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three men were injured, one critically, when a stock train crashed into the rear of a stationary stock train at East Fork junction, near Orange, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dede McGuirk, 19, of Rose-street, Tighe's Hill, an apprentice fitter at the Cardiff Loco Workshops, was using an emery wheel when a piece of steel flew off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a collision between a motor cycle and a lorry in Main Road, Boolaroo, to-day, the cyclist, John Anderson, 26, of Lambton Road, New Lambton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →W. T. Denman, 65, a farmer, near Ipswich, was drowned to-day when he dived into four feet of water at Wynnum, on Moreton Bay, struck his head mad wan…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At an inquiry to-day, the Coroner (Mr. Walter Wilson) committed John Joseph Coulton, of Gravesend, to stand his trial at Invere'l Quarter Sessions, on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Parramatta Coroner was told to-day how two greyhounds escaped injury, though two men received fractured skulls, when a car capsized on November 30 near…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"I cannot say that there has been criminal negligence disclosed by the evidence, and I will refrain from commenting upon any other feature of the case,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Radio calls for help from Keith Hamilton, lighthouse-keeper of Cliffy Island were not picked up on the mainland until more than 12 hours after a detonator…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →George Wakeman, 10. of Creek-road, Boolaroo received an indeed wound to the head when struck by a tin Lake Macquarie Ambulance took him to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A young nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital fell 100 feet from the seventh floor of the nurses' home today and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Clive King, 14, of Ruby-street, Bellbird, fell from a horse yesterday, and received a probable fracture of the right foot. He was attended by Cessnock Ambulance,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three women and a man, all residents of Victoria, were hurt when the motorcar in which they were returning to Melbourne after a motoring tour of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →George Packham, 47, of Orange, was killed, and his son, Frederick Packbam, 18, was injured when their lorry collided with a mail train at a level crossing at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →John Anderson, 26, of Lambton-road, New Lambton, received a fractured left collarbone and slight concussion when the motor-cycle he was riding collided with…
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