No Australians in List of Drowned
MELBOURNE.—An Army spokesman said to-day that the Japanese list of prisoners of war who had lost their lives when a…
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Accidents, 1944
572 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 29
Yesterday's Accidents
Struck by stone in Stockton Borehole mine, George Hipwell, 45, miner, of Boolaroo, lacerated his left wrist and fractured the toes on the left foot…
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The cabin nf a tram was stove in and the driver injured when the tram and a lorry collided in Brunker Road…
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MILDURA, Friday.—A triple drowning tragedy occurred in the Murray River near Cliffside this afternoon…
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Running from behind a bus at Charlestown on Saturday. Constance Rundle. 7, of Speers Point, was knocked down by a truck. She…
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Perey Lee, 35, Tudor-street, Hamilton, tram driver, was injured on Saturday in a collision between a tram he was driving and a heavily…
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NEW YORK, January 31.—Commeting on Hitler's speech, the "New York Times" points out that most of his arguments will raise only derisive…
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Struck by a fall of coal while! at work at Abermain No. 3 Colliery today. Joseph Parkinson. 35. a deputy, of 13 Tamworth Street…
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GRAFTON.—Finding of accidental death by drowning of 13 Scout Cubs in the Clarence River on December 11, arising…
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When a car and lorry collided at the corner of Dumaresq and Lawson Streets, Hamilton, Lorna Wilkinson, 32. Lorna-street. Waratah, a…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—When an Allied military truck and a locomotive collided at a level crossing on Ipswich-road. Woollongabba, early…
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A man who is n cripple slipped and fell in the street to-day and was badly injured. He was Thomas Balir. 35, of Watson St.,…
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Despite the improvement in precision tools, especially since the war began, hand labour or hand tools were responsible for 50 per cent. of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Last year 383 persons were killed, and 4591 injured in road accidents in New South Wales. In Newcastle 6 were killed…
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GRAFTON, Wednesday.—At the inquest into the death of 13 Wolf Cubs when a punt sank in the Clarence River on December 11, the…
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Mabel Davies, 61, Avondale-road, Lambton, fractured her left leg when she slipped on a wooden ramp at her home. She was taken to…
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Joyce Mitten, 18, Roslyn-avenue, Islington, was injured last night when the bicycle she was riding collided with a lorry in Maitland-road,…
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The driver's cabin was crushed in when a tram and the engine of a coal train collided at the New Tunnel crossing early yesterday…
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Clarence Davies (42), of Morgan Street, Merewether. had his left hand injured when his bicycle collided with a car at the…
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SYDNEY.âNine airmen were killed and one is missing, believed killed, as a result of one of the most serious air crashes in…
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