Child Drowned at Narrabeen
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Peter Kevin Wildash, 5½, of Lane Cove, was drowned in the Narrabeen Lakes this afternoon…
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Accidents, 1946
618 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 31
Injured Hand When Ran Into Fence
Ken Hill, of Merewether, broke a small bone in his right hand when he ran into a boundary fence while playing in the Colts v. The Rest…
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SYDNEY: Cecil John Allen, 28, laborer, appeared before Mr. Hardwick. S.M., at Central Court today on a charge of shooting with intent…
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William Hale, 7, of West Wallsend, fractured his left arm when he fell from a slippery dip at Speers Point. He was taken by Lake…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Eight people were injured when a crowded double-decker bus crashed into a shop awning in Parramatta-road…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Since Christmas Eve the total of holiday accidents has reached 101, of which 21 were fatal. Of the latter 16 died…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Four people were injured to-night when the car in which they were travelling got out of control and plunged down…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—When two cars collided at the corner of Railway and Prospect Streets, Kogarah, last night, six people were injured. The…
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When a tent collapsed during heavy wind at Warner's Bay on Saturday. Mrs. Gilmore, 32, of Cardiff, was struck on the back by a falling…
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SYDNEY: Trapped in a chaff cutter on his father's poultry farm at Rydalmere, yesterday, eight-year-old Milton Vincent received frightful wounds to the abdomen from the rotating blades. With his brother Lester, 10, Milton was playing in a shed on the farm…
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Thrown from a frightened horse on Belmore Bridge, West Maitland, this morning, Patrick O'Connell, council poundkeeper, of Lorn, hurtled into the side of a passing car and was critically injured…
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Patrick O'Connell, council pound-keeper, of Lorn, who was thrown from a horse and struck a passing car on Belmore bridge on Tuesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tested 1300 Planes; Ground Accident
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A test pilot who claimed to have tested 1300 planes at speeds up to 300 miles an hour without an accident had a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A collision between a car and a double-decker bus at the intersection of Eastern Valley Highway and Edinburgh-road,…
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A 14-year-old Paterson boy, Max Bates saved two girls, aged 15, from drowning at Tucker-Park, Paterson, yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY: Thinking that their launch would be run down by a ferry carrying more than 400 returning A.I.F. men, four marines and a sailor…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Miss Elsie Schofield, 36, of Collaroy, had her skull and jaw fractured, and suffered other severe head injuries and shock, when…
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Patrick Vincent O'Connell, of Lorn, who received severe head injuries when he was thrown from a horse and struck a passing motor…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mrs. Doris Rousfield, 42, of Willoughby, died to-day from injuries received when a car in which she and her husband…
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Warren Williams, 5, of Limeburner's Creek, was today rushed to Raymond Terrace in a private car following an accident in which he fell…
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