Low Accident Rate Oyer Holiday Period
Despite a heavy flow of traffic in Lismore over the Christmas-New Year holiday period, there was only one accident…
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Surfer Drowned at Burleigh
BRISBANE, Thursday: A man, whom the police believe to be Frank McNe[?] (21) of Brisbane Street, Markay, was…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—One life has been lost and many people have been driven from their homes as the result of floodings…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday. — Suffering a severe injury to his neck when he fell from a building in Argyle Street yesterday…
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Two Murwillumbah residents, Mrs Jessie Fraser, of Byangum Road, and Miss K. McIllrath, High School teacher, of…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday.—Two Murwillumbah residents, Mrs. Jessie Fraser, of Byangum Road, and Miss K. McIlrath, High School teacher,…
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Whilst removing an axe blade from the handle yesterday afternoon, Ronald Young (18), chemist's assistant, of 87 Dibbs Street,…
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Actual cost in £ s. d. of road accidents, apart from physical suffering and pain, is a substantial reason why a much more energetic approach…
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BALLINA, Wednesday. — The condition, of Neville Clive Eggins (23), of Lismore, who received a fall from a motor bike last night,…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday. — There was great need in Australia for the setting up facilities of special design for the reconstruction training of…
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IPSWICH, Wednesday. — A woman doctor was lowered by rope down the steep face of Minden [?]nge to-day to treat five people…
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Miss Rankin, an aged-woman residing at the "Roxy" guest house, received a probable fracture of the right thigh yesterday morning when…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Eileen Lynn, 17, probably fractured her spine when she fell 5Q feet from a roof garden at Potts Point this morning…
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A cyclist, Keith Eaton, 14, son of Mr. Eric Eaton, cream carrier, of The Channon, was admitted to Lismore Base Hospital yesterday after…
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TENTERFIELD, Wednesday. — While engaged in shunting operations at Wallangarra Railway, Launcelot Harty, 60, who was…
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CAIRNS, Sunday: One young man was killed and another seriously injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a…
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David Owen, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Owen, of Irwine Street, Kyogle, sustained a large incised wound to the back of his head…
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Actual cost in £ s d of road accidents, apart from physical suffering and pain, is a substantial reason why a much more energetic approach…
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"It is a remarkable fact that few people realise the seriousness of the road accident position," states an official of the Road Safety Council…
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LONDON, Friday: The Westminster coroner returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest into Ellen Wilkinson,…
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