Boy Fatally Injured; Search for Car
SYDNEY, Thursday.—After a three-year-old boy had been fatally injured in a motor accident at La Perouse to-night, police began a…
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Accidents, 1947
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Critically Injured in Road Smash
GOSFORD, Friday.—Walter Bailey, 22, of 47 Sweete-street, Lidcombe, who has both his legs in irons and is suffering from spinal injuries, the…
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SYDNEY: In a terrific impact between a three ton military "blitz waggon" and a motor car in Parramatta Road at the Ross Street intersection, Camperdown, this afternoon, one soldier was killed and five ohers injured…
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TAMWORTH, Friday.—Richard Walton, of Upper-street, Tamworth, was killed instantly when the motor-cycle he was riding to his farm at…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Kurri Kurri Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pickering) at an Inquest on Marjory Harriet Davey, 34, of…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—David Allen Pike, 18, while working on the farm of his brother, Mr. M. Pike, at Fordwich, had his right thigh bone…
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When he fell and struck his head on concrete guttering on Saturday night. Matthew Collins, 76, of Bent-street, Cessnock, lacerated the left side of his…
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Eighteen people were killed when a plane crashed in Virginia (United States) yesterday morning. There was only one survivor…
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One person was fatally injured and 11 others were injured in Newcastle district accidents during the week-end. Mervyn Walter Prince 33, of East Maitland, single, at the…
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Frank Coxen, 39, of Church Street. Cessnock, a wheeler at Aberdare Colliery suffered a lacerated right knee when he was kicked by a horse…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—A woman made a desperate but vain attempt to save her husband from drowning while their two young children…
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An injured boy was carried a mile down a mountain path yesterday, then four miles over a rough road in a utility truck, to be transported…
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FAILURE of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council to give attention to a culvert on the Morisset-Avondale road apparently raised the ire…
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SYDNEY: A steward at the Sydney University Union Club who walked out of an open window in his sleep and fractured…
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Maitland City Council last night decided to ask the Department of Main Roads how far it had gone with its plans for a new bridge over the…
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WOLLONGONG, Wednesday. — Evidence that a mother had threatened to drown herself and her newly-born baby was given in the Coroner's…
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Alexander Blanch, 75, of Edden-street, Adamstown, was fatally injured when his bicycle and a ear collided in St. James-road, New…
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At an Inquest on Norman James Pember, 16. of Moscheto Island, who was drowned in Hebburn No. 1 colliery dam, Weston, on December 24. Senior…
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CAPE TOWN, Jan. 16. A.A.P.—Six people have been drowned, many ears marooned, and trees swept away in Pietermaritzburg (Natal) in the…
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A six-year-old boy was found lying in the middle of Glebe-road near the Merewether oHtel yesterday morning. He was taken to Newcastle…
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