Injured While Diving
While diving in the Youngman Creek on Saturday afternoon Arthur Chaffey (16), of Rous Mill, struck his head on the bottom of…
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Child Floated For Three Hours, Safe, But Father Drowned
BRISBANE, Sunday.— A sixyear-old child, Sybil Baumann who could not swim floated down the Brisbane River for three hours…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: The Hollywood film actress, Susan Peters, was shot through the abdomen when a .22 calibre rifle…
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John Newlands, 19, of Brisbane Road, Booval, was drowned in Back Channel, Tweed Heads, late yesterday…
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When travelling on the Tenter-field Road yesterday. George Jas. Rooke (67) fractured the base of his skull and received other injuries…
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CASINO, Thursday: When travelling by truck on the Tenterfield road today, George James Rooke (67) fractured the…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday. —John Newlands, 19, of Brisbane Road, Booval, was drowned in the Back Channel at Tweed Heads…
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John Newlands (19), of Brisbane road, Booval, was drowned in the Back Channel at Tweed Heads late yesterday…
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LONDON, Thursday: The Ministry for War Transport reveals that 507 were killed and 10,268 injured as the result of road…
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CASINO, Thursday. — When travelling by truck on the Tenterfield road to-day. George James Rooke, 67, fractured the base of…
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When the truck he was driving on the Wardell Road on Saturday evening skidded and overturned. Keith White (37), dairy farmer, of…
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Falling heavily from a tree on Saturday afternoon, John Bown (14), son of Mr. Eric Bown, dairy farmer, of Woodlawn, dislocated his…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday. —Yvonne Mary Halsted, 16, of 61 Winchester Street. Hamiton, Bris bane, was droned in the surf at…
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Yvonne Mary Halstead (16), of 61 Winchester Street, Hamilton, Brisbane, was drowned in the surf at an unpatrolled…
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When a cordial delivery turned a corner rather sharply at Coolangatta, Allan Whelpton (16), who had been seated on the top of some…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—At an inquest into the death in December last of James McInerney, known as Brother Hillary, 27, and John…
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While swimming near her home, at New Park, Bertha Simpson slipped and fell on a stake, which entered her leg below her kneecap. First-aid was…
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A small car driven by Giovanni Gava, an Italian, of Rock Valley, had the windscreen shattered and the hood damaged when it was…
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CASINO, Friday.—When a cart overturned at Upper Theresa Creek Leo MacQueen and C. Valotti received severe injuries…
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LONDON, Friday: "Field-Marshal Kesselring, German Commander in Italy, was shaking off the effects of his eighth accident…
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