Shunter Injured
James Thompson. 23. a loco, shunter living at Harris-street. Cessnock, was struck by a fall of coal while working to-day at…
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Accidents, 1942
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Motor-Cyclist Injured
Ivor Kimberley, 22, a cook living at Cintra Road, Waratah, was injured when riding his motor cycle alone Broadmeadow Road…
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After a collision off the Australian coast one steamer has been beached and the other, a freighter, had damage to her…
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Found lying unconscious in Broadmeadow-road, Broadmeadow, at 6.20 a.m. yesterday, Ivor Kimberley, of Cintra-road, Waratah, employed as a cook…
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MELBOURNE.—Four Victorian R.A.A.F. air crew trainees were killed when two training planes collided at a South Australian…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Four R.A.A.F. men were killed when two service aircraft crashed at Thornlands, near Cleveland, this morning. They were…
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A finding of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) yesterday afternoon, when he held an…
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LONDON, Jan. 13 (Air Mail).—A drowning child was fished out of the water by a crane at Glasgow docks lately…
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GOSFORD, Sunday.—Arthur Teasdale. 56, stationmaster at Ourimbah, was in the railway yards fixing automatic couplings between two…
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Two persons were injured at Hamilton when a car returning to a wedding reception on Saturday night collided with another car…
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White plating in the yard of her parents' home nt Warner's Bay. Moreen Wilson (6) fell into a air-raid shelter and fractured…
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Maureen Wilson. 6, of James-street. Warner's Bay, received a probable fracture of an ankle when she fell in an air-raid shelter at her…
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J. Smith, 55, of Awaba-street, Teralba, was treated for concussion by Lake Macquarie Ambulance when he fell off a bus. He was taken to…
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Mra. J. Evans, of Main Road, Boolaroo, fell at her home this afternoon and fractured her kneecap. Lake Macquarie Ambulance…
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SYDNEY.— Any person doing voluntary A.R.P. work, whether a member of the N.E.S. or not, who Is injured in an air raid…
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When his left hand was jammed between midget cars at a carnival near the Trades Hall last night. Robert Nelson, 32, of Gibson-avenue, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Traffic Drowned Sirens in City Daylight Raid Test
The principal lesson of Newcastle's first daylight air raid test this morning was that the city siren system needs boosting to overcome the noise of traffic. Both independent and official observers agree with that view…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday.—A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner (Mr. D. M. Cregan) at an inquest on…
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Robert Caldwell, 19, of 41 Hunter-street. Merewether, received a severe eve injury at his work this morning, Caldwell, an…
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Struck by a fall of coal while at work at Richmond Main Colliery to-day. Vincent Campbell, 37, a miner, of Mitchell Avenue…
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