One Man Killed, Another Injured
LISMORE, Monday:—One man was killed and another man was slightly injured when a truck in which they were travelling about…
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Busy Week-End For R.A.F. And Enemy Airmen Heligoland Is Attacked: Nazis Over Orkneys First Civilian Fatality LONDON, Sunday
THE week-end was a busy one for the British and German air forces. The Royal Air Force made a number of flights over the Heligoland Bight, One bomber completed a reconnaissance of…
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Herbert Frank Rose, of Lismore, j was fined £3, with 8s costs when he pleaded guilty in the Lismore Police Court yesterday to a charge…
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A fine of £3, with 8s costs, was imposed on Eric McDonald Roberts, of Mnllumbimby, in the Lismore Police Court yesterday. The…
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WARWICK, Tuesday:—Early this afternoon the body of Charles Herbert Aspinall (49), Maryvale district dairy farmer, was found where it was swept…
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Mr. William York, 35, a gravel carting contractor for the Main Roads Department, was killed near Tabulam on Monday night when his 2½…
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LONDON, Monday: — A highly placed official has revealed that there has been no increase in the ratio of Royal Air Force accidents…
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Owing to a flooded creek, an injured man had to be carried nearly a mile down a steep mountain side to where an ambulance car…
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Owing to a flooded creek an injured man had to be carried nearly a mile down a steep mountain side to where the ambulance car was waiting…
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Request has been made by several country branches of the Road Safety Council that a State wide appeal should be made to…
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Mrs. Annie Falls and Mrs. Taylor, both of Upper Mongogarie, were admitted to the Maclean Hospital suffering from injuries…
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Charles Crompton (27), married man, residing in Argyle Street, Mullumbimby, received lacerations to the right hand and elbow and to the left…
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MELBOURNE, Friday:—A militiaman, Pte. Norman Kerr (21), of East Bentleigh, was killed, and two others, Pte. Lewis Isaacs (21), of Warragul,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:—George Jones (28), of Tighes Hill, Newcastle, was drowned when he was carried out by the surf at Newcastle to-day. Jones…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:—Leonard Francis Jeffrey (19), of Douglas Park, was drowned in the Nepean River, near Douglas Park, to-day. He was…
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BRISBANE, Sunday:—While thousands of surfers were in the water or on the beach, Joan Ward (9), of Beaudesert, was drowned at Main Beach…
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Leonard Jeffrey (18), of Douglas Park, was drowned while swimming in the Nepean River this afternoon. Jeffrey was seen to disappear by…
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SYDNEY, Sunday:—Peter Paterson (40), of Stockton, sank and was drowned after he had fallen from a yacht in Newcastle harbor to-day…
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BUNDABERG, Sunday: August Josefski (43), married, of Rosedale, was drowned in Baffle Creek this afternoon in endeavoring to…
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Air Cadet John Toland (14), of Stanmore, was accidentally shot in the right side when his companion discharged a pea-rifle a short…
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