Boy Drowned In McDonald River
BENDEMEER.—Slipping off a rock into seven feet of water, at the McDonald River picnic ground, 11-year-old William…
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Accidents, 1949
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Children Hurt In Road Accidents
Two children were struck by vehicles while crossing streets in the suburbs yesterday. They were both taken to the Mater Misericordiae…
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Two men were injured, and another suffered from shock, when a car and lorry collided at Hexham last night…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Peter Niland, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Niland, of Ulmarra, had both his legs fractured…
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Frederick Williams, 47, of Evans-street, Belmont, an ashman at Commonwealth Steel, suffered a probable fracture of the pelvis when…
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TAMWORTH, Thursday.—Edwin Phonso Moore, 65, of Texas, had his left arm amputated near the elbow after a car smash on…
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SYDNEY: Four members of Mermaid Reach (Queensland) Surf Club team were injured today when they were knocked off a motor lorry on which they were standing as it passed under a low…
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Death was due to injury accidentally received, the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) found yesterday at the inquest on John Wilson, 63,…
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Spiroki Spiro, 7, of Cross Roads, Cardiff, suffered a wound above his right eye when accidentally hit by a slug from an air rifle. Lake…
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Falling about 15 feet from the roof of a house at Merewether yesterday, Robert Richards, 15, of Rose-street, Cardiff, had his right…
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SYDNEY A frantic mother dived fully clothed into Manly Lagoon today vainly seeking the body of her drowned baby daughter. The missing child, Helen Dal-…
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Leon Nash, 3, of Argenton, was taken by Lake Macquarie Ambulance to Wallsend Hospital yesterday with a probable fracture of the…
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When his car and a bus collided on the Pacific Highway, Swansea, yesterday, Cecil Taylor, 31, of Waters-street, Enfield, suffered…
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William George Smith, 17, or Fennell's Bay, suffered a probable fracture of the skull, lacerated face and neck, and shock, when thrown…
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LONDON, March 20.—Five-weeks-old Simon Hunter, who was flown from Malta to London for a life or death stomach operation,…
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When she fell over a seat at West Maitland Public School today Yvonne Ellis, 8, of Oakhampton, dislocated her right…
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Neville Smith, 24, Maitland-st., Kurri Kurri, a miner at Bloomfield Main, injured his back while lifting a skip today…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Aided by searchlights, police were still searching at midnight to-night near the Gap, at Watson's Bay, where…
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Sandra Ann Nicholson. 2, of Surry Hills, Victoria, who is holidaying at Louth Park, West Maitland, had her forehead…
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When a motor-cycle and a car collided in Roe-street, Mayfield, yesterday, the cyclist, Robert Wotherspoon, 22, of Berkeley-street,…
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