Boy Saved From Drowning
GOSFORD, Thursday.—Michael Ortado, 7, of Wamberal, was saved from drowning in Wamberal Lake this afternoon by a youth of 17 who…
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Accidents, 1944
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Youth Saved Boy From Drowning
A youth who did not disclose his name saved a boy from drowning at Wamberal, near Gosford, late yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Tahmoor, who was expected to run prominently in the Challenge Stokes, was injured at Randwick this morning. After running…
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Arthur Ware, 28, timbercutter, of Carrobolla, was barking a log yesterday afternoon, when his axe slipped and struck his left leg, causing…
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Crossing Maitland-road, Islington last night. Wallace Tones, 8, of Maitland-road, ran into a bicycle. He was treated by Newcastle…
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Another 160 Japanese troops were drowned in four barges destroyed by Allied patrol torpedo boats in a daring thrust north of Alexishafen, New Guinea. These small craft are carrying sea warfare right under the noses of the…
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Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Charters, of Lawson-street, Hamilton, have been notified that their third son, L.A./C…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—John Haven, [?] of Auburn, had his eyes severely injured to-night, when a bottle containing sodium exploded on the beach…
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When she fell from a bicycle, Miss Minnie Watson, 30, of Aldyth-street, New Lambton, suffered lacerations to the nose, contusions to the forehead,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—While playing in a pool in a quarry in Roberts-avenue, Mortdale, this afternoon, Robert Percival Forward, 11, of…
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The District Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) held an inquest yesterday into the death of William Joseph Robson, railwayman, who, it was…
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Thomas Foley, 65, Charlestown, fractured his right leg when a bar of steel fell on it, at work. Newcastle Ambulance took him to the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—When a motor-car in which they were travelling skidded on a turn in Skene Creek road, five miles from Apollo…
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In evidence at the inquest into the death of William Joseph Robson, who was fatally injured on the night of December 30, an army…
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When his bicycle and a motor vehicle collided at Hamilton, Ernest Diggins, 39, Clarence-road, Waratah, suffered a probable fracture of the skull, and injury…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday—Twenty-five per cent. of road accidents in New South Wales were caused by Commonwealth vehicles, said the…
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TOE CRUSHED. — When a heavy seel plate fell on to his left foot early this morning. Harry Massey, 45, of First Street…
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Crushed between buffers while engaged shunting at Telarah, Frederick John Evenden, 58, of Vickers-street, Mayfield West, received a lacerated…
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CHUNGKING, Thursday.—About 1000 Japanese troops were drowned when a medium-sized warship struck a mine and sank in the…
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Whilst attempting to rescue a younger child from Throsby Creek, Carrington on January 7 last. Betty Ellen Smith, 11 years, was…
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