Girl Injured In Fall At Maitland
Janice Blayden, 6, of East Greta, suffered a probable fracture of the left collarbone when she fell while playing at…
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Accidents, 1950
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Eleven Dead in Week-end Accidents
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Six people were killed in road accidents and five were drowned in New South Wales at the week-end…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A 23-month-old child, Anne Dowling, was drowned in shallow water 100 yards from her parents' home…
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Auriel May Gaddes, 15, of Nambucca Heads, was fatally injured when her bicycle and a car collided on the Pacific Highway, near…
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Two men were injured when a car in which they were travelling and a tram collided at the corner of Hunter and Union Streets,…
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After travelling 120 miles by utility tuck, train and ambulance, a 54-year-old man who fell 50 feet down a mountain…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Kenneth Pinchin, 19, of Sydney-road, Deniliquin. New South Wales, was killed to-day when his motor-cycle…
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MELBOURNE—An airman who had lined up to have his picture taken was critically injured at Benambra…
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SUBMARINE TRIALS off the American coast produced this unusual picture. The new sub Amberjack was taken to a depth of 150 feet, pointed at as sharp an angle as possible, and driven full speed to the surface. Normal surfacing angle is five degrees. SENORITA Carmen Franco Polo, 23, daughter of Spain's Generalissimo Franco, with her…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Four people were injured—one seriously—when a crowded double-decker bus struck the overhanging branches of…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—Accidents killed at least 403 persons in the United States during the New Year holidays—well…
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BRISBANE.—Fifty-four people were killed in road accidents in the Brisbane area during 1949 and 1641 were…
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GOSFORD, Wednesday.—Four tourist buses, carrying about 100 people, and a truck were involved in an unusual collision…
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DUBBO, Wednesday.—John William Wheaton, 9, of Allambi, Balladoran, was killed this morning when the utility truck in which…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Marine Board will appoint a court of marine inquiry into the drowning of two men in Port Phillip Bay…
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Two motor-cyclists received minor injuries when their machines collided in Maitland-road, Sandgate, last night. They were taken to…
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Joseph Seymour, 24, of High-street, Morpeth, employed by Commonwealth Steel Company, fractured both arms when he fell…
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KATOOMBA.—A 31-year-old timber-cutter, who was injured when struck by a large boulder while snigging a log in a…
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Basil Jones, 29, of Braye-street, Mayfield, suffered injuries to his left shoulder and a compound fracture of the third finger on his…
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When a motor-cyclist braked to avoid a cow on the Dungog road, about three miles from Wallarobba Mountain, on Saturday night,…
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