Drowning Feared
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police fear that Kevin Grant, 4½, of Herne Bay, holidaying at Manly with his mother, may have drowned in…
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Accidents, 1950
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Drowned Off Norah Head
Joseph Long, 57, of Silver-street, St. Peters, was drowned off Norah Head yesterday morning. The body was recovered…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A motor-cyclist and his pillion passenger to-night crashed into two cars and a motor-cycle coming…
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Struck by a green utility truck which, they told the police, did not stop at Weakley's Flat Bridge, Beresfield,…
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Reginald Peachey, 19, of A Company, 1st Infantry Battalion, Ingleburn, encamped with his battalion at Anna Bay, suffered a lacerated…
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Evan McAlister, 29, of George St., Marmong Point, a warder at Stockton Mental Hospital, had his ribs fractured and his…
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WOLLONGONG, Monday.—When his truck and a coal train collided at Port Kembla to-day, a truck driver was dragged 60 feet…
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Ralph Wooding, 43, carpenter, of Kameruka-road, Northbridge, suffered lacerations to the head, bruises on the right side of body and…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pickering) at Kurri Kurri when he held an…
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The District Coroner (Mr. M. J. D. Austin) returned a finding of accidental poisoning at the inquest into the death of…
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Neville Scott, 20, of Ida-street, Mayfield, suffered abrasions to the face and concussion when his motorcycle and a lorry collided near…
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John Daniel Smith (46), of The Reserve, Carrington, was found drowned in Newcastle Harbor near the Sulphide…
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Three people were injured yesterday when cars collided at the corner of Braye and Rose Streets, Mayfield…
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REYKJAVIK (Iceland), Wed. (A.A.P.): Twenty-eight of the crew of the 7404-ton London oil tanker Clam were drowned near here yesterday when two lifeboats capsized while they were attempting to get ashore from their stranded ship…
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A request for "halt" signs to be placed in Regent-street near its intersection with Russell-road, New Lambton, where an accident…
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Six people were injured when a motor car crashed into the back of a stationary truck in Maitland-road, Mayfield, early this morning…
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HOBART, Wednesday.—Jennifer McDonald, 8, who was in bed unable to move because of a plaster cast on her leg, was rescued by…
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A 19-year-old railway porter, Frederick John Fernance, died from injuries received when he was struck by a railway…
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Death from asphyxia caused by drowning was the finding of the Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. R. Howard) when he…
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When a car he was driving overturned on the New England Highway near Rutherford yesterday, William Lamprill, 25, of…
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