Pilot Instructor Killed in Crash Pupil Badly Injured Expected To Recover
SYDNEY, Monday: — A two-seater Gipsy Moth, owned by the Kingsford Smith Air Service, crashed nose first…
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Yangtse River Collision LONDON
It is believed that 230 persons lost their lives when a river steamer was rammed and sunk by another vessel on the Yangtse River, according to…
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This series has already included a note about plastics. But a little story about it has been omitted so far. Here it is. Everyone knows how very often a little thing leads on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dinghy Capsized Youth Saved From Drowning GRAFTON
Thanks to the prompt action of Charles Price, aged 17 years, who was swimming in the South Grafton baths, a youth named Smith, of the…
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Despite the efforts of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales, there has not been a great reduction in the number of deaths from road accidents in New South Wales…
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CHINCHILLA (Old.). Thursday:— Frederick Swain (48), married laborer, of Chinchilla, was drowned in Rocky Weir, one and a half miles from…
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AUCKLAND: Thirty-seven persons have been drowned in New Zealand in the past five weeks. In the same period a year ago drownings totalled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Leg Gashed by Saw Timber Worker Injured
When John Browning, 26, attempted to jump clear when a tree which he had been sawing on Roseberry Creek commenced to break the tooth of the…
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Leo Nelson (28), of Yarraville, died in hospital to-day from injuries received on Sunday night when the taxi in which he was a passenger collided…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: — Raymond Theodore Walter (6½), of Virginia, was drowned in two feet of water at Gribb Island to-day. Although he was…
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WARWICK, Sunday:— Herbert Owen Shepherd (16), farm hand, of Wildash, 12 miles from Warwick, was found in the Condamine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Die in Traintruck Collision Near Bundaberg Brisbane
When a motor truck collided with a train at Gooburrum, near Bundaberg, three were killed. The victims were: John Peterson…
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BRISBANE, Sunday:— Nine people were killed and many others injured in road accidents in Queensland and New South Wales at the week-end…
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James Robertson (31), of McKenzie-street, Lismore, was accidentally shot through the leg while sitting in a boat in the Richmond…
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Herbert Owen Shepherd, 16, farm hand, of Wildash, near Warwick, was drowned in the Condamine River. Shepherd and two other youths swam…
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Bruce Carroll (15) and Corrie Santon (13) narrowly escaped drowning when the 12-foot boat they were sailing on Sydney harbour to-day…
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George Hayward (13), a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hayward, Dawsonstreet, Lismore, received a lacerated wound to the scalp and suffered from…
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Charles Hunter, aged about 38 years, employed as a farm band by Mr. Samuel Bradley, Eureka, was drowned in a 12 feet water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Passenger Injured NEWCASTLE
Arthur Richards, 18, an applentice baker, of Neutral Bay, suffered a probably fractured skull while a Newcastlebound train in which he was a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motor Cyclist Injured MULLUMBIMBY
Dudley Estreich (27), married man, employed by Mr. P. McCarthy at The Pocket, received abrasions to the right leg and thigh when he fell from a…
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