Mineworker Injured
Frederick Victor (17), Aberdare Rd., Cessnock, a clipper at Aberdare Colliery, suffered injuries to his left foot when it…
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Accidents, 1949
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Car Passenger Injured
Rose Wilson, 63, of Citrus-avenue, Hornsby, suffered a lacerated forehead and shock when a car in which she was a passenger ran off…
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A man aged 76 lay injured between the rails and platform at Morisset station last night while four trains passed near him…
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Thomas Watkins, 21, of Lambton-road, New Lambton, who suffered an injury to his left leg and knee when a 400lb bobbin rolled on to…
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A railway carpenter suffered severe head injuries when he slipped and fell behind a steel safe as it was being pushed…
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A motor-cyclist and his pillion rider were injured when their machine skidded near Swansea last night…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.âFour people were killed and eight injured in five motor-cycle accidents in New South Wales during the…
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BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—A Dragon aerial ambulance with the Flying Doctor service was damaged when taking off from Innamincka,…
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SYDNEY.—Ambulance men had to cut away an injured man's clothes today before they could free him from machinery…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.—Kenneth Waddington, 45, Manager of Penney's more, Tamworth, was drowned when washed out by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gunner Fatally Injured in Fall
Mervyn Hoban, 38, a gunner attached to Fort Wallace, was fatally injured when he fell about eight feet from a gun emplacement at…
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Douglas Charlesworth, 6, of King-street, Stockton, fell while alighting from a bus in Mitchell-street, Stockton, yesterday…
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SYDNEY.—Concern at the increasing number of accidents caused by defective motor vehicle equipment is expressed by…
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Ronald Olive, 21, of Sargent-street, Cessnock, and a car collided on the Wollombi road last night. He was riding a motor-cycle. He…
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Three passengers and the driver were injured yesterday morning when a double-decker bus veered off Cessnock-road near East Greta,…
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Frederick Mawby, 26, of Robert-street, Wickham, a seaman on the steamer Adelong, had the top of a finger on his left hand severed…
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MACKAY (Queensland).—Leonard John Hastie (3), son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Hastie, of Cuttabul, was drowned in…
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Caught in a fall of stone at John Darling colliery yesterday, Albert Parsons, 32, of The Heads, Swansea, received a fracture of a toe…
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Motor-cycles were involved in three accidents in the North at the week-end, A motor-cyclist and his pillion…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The General President of the Primary Producers' Union (Mr. R. C. Gibson) was injured this afternoon when…
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