Three Injured by Runaway Truck
SYDNEY, Friday.—A motor-truck left standing in King-street, City, ran down the incline towards George-street to-day. It narrowly missed…
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Accidents, 1944
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Drowned at Sea Soldiers' Families From England
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Frost) revealed in the House of Representatives that a number of Australian…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.âAfter returning to the city in a taxi following a road accident at Bulla last Friday, George Henry Murray, 38…
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SYDNEY.—Apprentice A.D. Jones and the two-year-old Good Idea were injured at Randwick to-day…
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Barry Jones, 4, Glebe-road, Adamstown, was struck by a bicycle at the corner of Union-street and Glebe-road, Adamstown, on Saturday. He was…
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Falling between trucks in Newcastle goods yard. George Guppy 32, Coal-street, Isington, fractured the ribs on his left side. Newcastle…
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Ken Lasker, 14, Cashman's stables Dumaresq-street Hamilton, suffered a laceration over the left eye and shock when kicked by a horse. Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Ferdinand James Kennett, 35, of Footscray, said in the Criminal Court that he had swung an axe to block his wife's…
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Mrs. J. McFadden. 25. Warner's Bay, fractured a toe on the right toot when she stumbled against a piece of timber. She was taken to Wallsend Hospital…
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Colin Barnes, 55, Marmong Point, miner at Pacific colliery, had his back and hip injured when struck by a prop at work. Lake Macquarie…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Five people were injured, three seriously, when a motor-car and a heavy lorry collided in Market-street, near…
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D. Wilcock, 54, of Teralba, s miner employed at Pacific colliery, was treated by Lake Macquarie Ambulance for a fracture of the right foot following a…
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Crowds were at the beaches yesterday. At Newcastle a servicemen and a girl were injured while surfing. G. Tate had his chin cut in a…
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(By "Valais").—Sir Andrea, unlucky runner in last Saturday's Flying Handicap at Newcastle, is not likely to race for…
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SYDNEY.—June Muir, 15, Hall Road, Homsby, put her head out of a train between Waltara and Hornsby on Sunday and was…
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INJURED IN GRAVEL FALL. —Frederick Lester, aged 54, of Southern Street, Mayfield, a quarryman, was injured by a fall…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, two main clauses of which cover the effect of the death of a…
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Jack Fallins, of Newcastle-street, East Maitland, Under-manager at Bloomfield colliery, suffered a probable fracture of his left wrist…
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Attempting to miss a fall of coal at Waratah colliery, James Stobbard, 24, of Station-road. Whitebridge, was knocked against a skip and received…
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Slipping on a floor he was host in at the Raymond Terrace-Dairy and Produce Co. Ltd., Raymond Thompson, 17, of Maitland-road,…
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