Girl and Serviceman Injured in Lift Well. Sydney
Maureen Pascoe, aged 9, had both legs crushed when she was suspended head downwards for more than two hours last night in…
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Accidents, 1944
156 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 8 of 8
Drowning Fatality
A sad drowning fatality took place on the Little River yesterday, when a young man named William Vaughan Byrnes…
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Falling at the baths on Sunday, Evelyn McDonald (10), of 92 Myall street, suffered an inury to the head. The ambulance brigade rendered first…
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While shooting on the Obley road property of Mr. Bert Wright at the weekend Mr. Harry Graham, son of Mrs Graham, and the late Mr. George…
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Children of all ages are undergoing or are about to face up to public and school examinations. It is a testing time…
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A young man named William Vaughan Byrnes was drowned in a water hole on the Little River, a mile below Obley, on Sunday last. He dived into…
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Quite a gloom was cast over the district on Sunday, 19th November, when news was received that William…
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When a bag of wheat fell on, Mr. E. Tierney, carried, of Myrtle Street, on Tuesday last, he sustained an injury to the…
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Slipping while working on the new bridge across the Macquarie River at Narromine, on Tuesday afternoon, Harold James Spence (40), suffered a…
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Lorries, vans arid heavy vehicles generally are figuring prominently in the road accidents statistics, particularly in country areas. This…
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A Dubbo motorist, whose car was stolen from outside the Monarch Theatre on Saturday night, recovered the car himself quite by chance some 24 hours later, and apparently…
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A very had incident speak whose about It [?] last 'Thursday morning, about [?] A fight of three [?]…
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Bro. Hillary, formerly of tho Dubbo De La Salle College, was drowned in a swimming pool at Vaucluse yesterday afternoon, while…
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MILDURA, Thursday. -Robert Terence O'Toole (5) and Brian Clifford O'Toole (4), sons of Mr. and Mrs. L. O'Toole, of Pomona…
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Struck by a locomotive while working on the coal grab at the Dubbo railway yards, in the early hours of this morning, George Byrne (59), suffered…
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HOBART, Thursday.-One man and three boys were drowned when a tenfoot dinghy capsized off Seven Mile. Beach yesterday. They were Ernest…
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