Mental Hospital Drowning Sydney
There was no evidence to support the suggestion that Richard Bruce Walker, an eight-year-old mental patient, was lifted out of a pen at Peat Island Mental…
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Accidents, 1940
1,366 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 69
Schoolboy Injured
When he collided with another boy at the Kurri St. Joseph's Catholic School. Denis Saxton, 10, son of Councillor P. Saxton, of Lang-street. Kurri,…
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Two boilermakers employed at the Cardiff Railway Workshops were treated by Lake Macquarie Ambulance for foreign bodies in their eyes…
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Ray Steele, 30, of Nott-street, Merewether, who was seriously injured when his motor cycle and a car collided at the intersection of Hunter and…
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John Brown, 59, of Melbourne-street, Aberdare, a shotfirer employed at Elrington colliery, slipped and fell on some rails, fracturing lower ribs. He also left…
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Miss Mac was injured at Kensington yesterday. Ridden by J. Willsher, she was working about half-Pace on the tan, and when about 50…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Dave" Injured in Cinesound Scene Sydney
The first mishap in the shooting by Cine-sound of fire scenes in "Dad Rudd, M.P.," occurred at Camden to-day, when George Kenyon, special effects technician, and…
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Jack Harvey, 17, of Ingall-street, Mayfield, a machinist at the Australian Wire Rope Works, suffered extensive lacerations to the right index finger, and shock,…
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Claude Hardy. 38. of Ulick-street., Merewether. a machinist employed by Frederick Ash Pty. Ltd.. had the first finger and the palm of his left hand…
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Woodcutters and the Superintendent of the Maitland Ambulance (Mr. J. B Hicks) had a difficult task in bringing an injured man through mountanious…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cessnock Miners Injured in Falls of Coal
Michael McCarter, 40, of Northcote-street, Aberdare, a miner employed at Aberdare colliery, was struck by a fall of coal yesterday and received a probable…
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Mark Whiley, 51, of Regent-street, New Lambton, an employee of the Greater Newcastle Council, was loading a small iron shed on to a lorry at the council's…
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John Gorton, 9, of Margaret-street, Cessnock, fell from a tank yesterday, and fractured his wrist. John Nichol, 12, of Alfred-street,…
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Caught between a skip and a prop at Hebburn No. 1 colliery to-day. William Turnbull, a miner of Weston Street, Weston. received a broken…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Four Injured in Collisions
In a collision between a car and a motor-lorry at the intersection of Scott and Pacific streets on Saturday night, Harold Cantonsen (21), of Watt-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Rugby League Player Injured
Rugby League and former Soccer footballer Roy Johns, of Cessnock, had his right leg injured when he was struck by a coal-cutting machine at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Well-borer Fatally Injured Narrabri
When the brake of the handle of a drill spool on a well-boring machine broke and struck him on the forehead, Walter Bladford Wyatt, 44, a married…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Injured Cars Collide in City
Two men were injured when two cars collided at the corner of Scott and Pacific Streets late on Saturday night. Reginald Christie, of Watkins-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Germans Can't Take It French Radio Is Drowned Out LONDON
The German Radio said to-day, "Our machine-gun fire silenced Allied loudspeakers on the Western Front because of their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truck Crashed Into Pole Soldier Dead; Another Injured Week-end Road Toll Sydney
Crushed in the cabin of a truck which crashed into a pole at Flemington yesterday, a militiaman was fatally injured. His companion is in hospital in a serious…
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