Surfer Injured By Shark At Evans Head
A shark about five feet long is believed to have caused leg injuries received by Tabulam grazier, Stewart Hooton, in the surf at Evans Head about 8.30 a.m. yesterday. Hooton escaped…
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Girl Injured by Fall From Horse
CASINO, Tuesday. — When she fell from a horse at Spring Grove, Alvis Ann Trustum, 6, suffered a probably fracture of the right arm…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Matthew Soulsby. 42, married, of Corrimal, was killed instantly late today when a motor-cycle and…
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Warren Newman, 13, of Peter Street, Murwillumbah, received concussion, facial abrasions and severe shock when he collided with…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). —The coastguard cutter East Wind was swept by fire and her crew of 100 ordered to abandon ship after…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday : The veteran Coastguard cutter, East Wind, was swept by fire and…
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CASINO, Thursday.—When his arm came into contact with the disc of a plough, Thomas Irwin, 61, of Sextonville, suffered a severe…
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CASINO, Thursday—A French immigrant who was travelling to Brisbane to receive medical attention suffered a severely…
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In attempting to apply the brake to a scooter that he was riding near his home on Sunday, Wrarren West, eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs…
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NEW YORK, Thursday (AAP).— Ten seamen were killed and 19 injured when the coastguard cutter East Wind and the 10,000 ton…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday. — For failing to stop after an accident in which another car was involved, Thomas Gordon Tyrell…
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BRISBANE, Friday: An elderly Brisbane couple, James Joseph Kelly, 69, and his wife, Anne Kelly, 75, were killed, and two young men seriously injured, when a car overturned on the…
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CASINO, Friday.—A fine of £1 and costs amounting to £11 were imposed on Robert John Rutledge, timber cutter, of Mongogarie, who…
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While fishing at Brunswick Heads yesterday, Raymond Wood, linotype operator, had the skin hear his left eye caught in a…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday. — Fourteen shotgun pellets ricochetted from the water and punctured the legs and body of a youth in a shooting…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A 36-year-old woman, rescued from drowning in Sydney Harbour, said yesterday she wished she had died instead of her brother who had attempted to save her…
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Two men were injured in a motor cycle accident at Coomera yesterday morning…
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At Coolangatta Summons Court yesterday, before Mr. Warwick McKenna, S.M., Ian Harold Trevaskes, of Laurel Avenue, Wilston, Brisbane, was charged with having unlawfully caused…
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PARKES, Tuesday. — Graphic evidence was given today of the collapse of a picture theatre wall at Parkes last Saturday week when…
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At Coolangatta Summons Court on Tuesday, before Mr Warwick McKenna, S.M., William Lewis Peate, of Boundary Street, Tweed Heads, was charged that he unlawfully did…
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