Struck by Falling Stone, Shire Employee Injured
When a large stone hit him on the left shoulder yesterday, Mervyn Weary, of Highfield, received a large incised wound…
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Gunner's Death Was Accidental
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The District Coroner (Mr. R. A. Kersley) at Liverpool Court today found that Maxwell William Magann, 21,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A widowed mother of two young children, who claimed £20,000 from two motorists before two juries in the Supreme…
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HOBART, Friday.—How a two and a half year old girl climbed out of her cot and accidentally smothered her nine month old brother,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Axe And Clothes Line Cause Nasty Accident
The axe and the clothes line caused trouble again on Sunday. Fred Boyle, a married man, of The Risk, was cutting wood when the axe…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Forestry Commission officer was fatally injured today at Coopernook, near Taree, when he was struck on the…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—London's strangest accident shut Blackwall Tunnel for 90 minutes yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kyogle Golfer Injured In Fall From Horse
Well-known Kyogle golfer, Mr. Rex Page, suffered fractures to the knee and wrist, when he fell from a horse late on Tuesday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Van in Collision
A panel van driven by Stanley Lewis Pearce, of Rous Road, was damaged fairly extensively in a collision with another vehicle at…
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Three Lismore residents were injured when a car in which they were passengers collided with another vehicle at the turn-off into…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Fifteen new Australians were injured—four seriously—and about 250 others rendered homeless, when a fire razed a hutment at the Brooklyn migrant centre early today…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Three were killed and at least 21 others injured in weekend road accidents. Killed were: Ian Kirkwood, 20, of Beimore, who was killed when…
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TOOWOOMBA, Monday.—Two men were killed instantly when a timber truck and a transport truck collided at the intersection of…
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A man who allegedly told police that he did not have time to cross over to the correct side of the roadway in a utility lorry was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A 19 years old mother was killed and her 18 years old married sister critically injured in a mystery accident at Ryde last night. C.I.B. detectives investigating…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two brothers, Loftus Leslie Hannah and Stanley Hannah, who have been charged with manslaughter, were…
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CASINO, Wednesday.—A man was injured early today when a three-ton truck and a utility collided at the intersection of Hickey…
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SYDNEY. Wednesday.—The second victim of the nuzzling road accident at Ryde on Monday night died early today in Ryde Hospital…
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James McCaughey, aged 15, of 93 Casino St., South Lismore, sustained a severe lacerated wound to the third finger of the left hand…
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An aged man was extensively injured when knocked from his bicycle in a collision with a car at the corner of Keen and Woodlark…
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