Plumber falls 20ft., Critically Injured
SYDNEY, Friday.—A plumber who fell 20 feet to the ground at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's wharf at Pyrmont to-day…
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Accidents, 1949
799 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 40
Car and Truck Hit, Four Women Injured
Four women were injured when a car and a truck collided at the intersection of Cowper and George Streets, Wallsend, last night…
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LONDON, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—Two seamen are missing following a mid-Channel collision in mist between the British coaster Granny Suzanne…
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A man and woman lost their lives in road accidents in the North on Saturday night. Cecil Robert Davies, 32, part…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gun Accident, Man's Foot Amputated
SYDNEY, Sunday.— Norman Burton, 34, electric welder, Mona-street, Auburn, had his foot amputated in Nepean District Hospital…
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A motor-cyclist suffering from a probable fractured rib last night refused to be taken to a doctor after he was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Kathleen Barlas, 15, a student at Hebron Seventh Day Adventist Reform College, near Windsor, was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — John Thomas O'Brien, 9, of Station-avenue, Ryde, was drowned to-day at the gasworkers' picnic in…
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TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday. —A gaol warder's refusal to abandon his motor-cycle when trapped on a flooded traffic bridge late Tuesday…
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At the inquest on Brian Victor Foley, 18, colliery shunter, of Skelton-street, Hamilton, the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) returned a…
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Ian Todd, 7, of Lawes-street, East Maitland, fractured his right forearm when he fell from a bicycle. Maitland Ambulance took…
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A deputy employed at Abermain No. 2 Colliery was found with facial and head injuries near the mine shaft early this…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A brother and sister, and two brothers were injured in motor-cycle accidents in Sydney this afternoon…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — One man was killed and four persons were injured when an electric train and a semi-trailer timber jinker…
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On the afternoon of January 12, Frederick Ernest John Pannowitz, 26, shotfirer, of Illalong-road, East Lambton, was killed by a fall of…
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Five soldiers were injured—two seriously—when a jeep in which hey were travelling overturned on the Nelson's Bay road at…
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LISMORE, Sunday.—Two brothers were injured, one seriously, yesterday, when a Newcastle Aero Club Hornet Moth crashed from…
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The inquiry into the fall at Newcastle races on February 5, when Chamars fell in the straight, and Laughing Cavalier toppled over…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Police recovered the body of John Bain, 62, war pensioner, this afternoon in eight foot of water in the Georges…
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An unknown man was fatally injured when struck by a jeep in Hunter-street, about 150 yards east of Union-street, last night. He was…
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