Body of Drowned Man Recovered Recent Boating Fatility
The police on Sunday morning last whilst out in their patrol motor-boat recovered the body of one of the "Balts"…
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Accidents, 1950
187 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 10
Man Believed Drowned at Wellington
Jack Pearson, of Curra Creek in the Wellington district, is believed to have been drowned on Saturday at a flooded road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search Party Fails to Locate Body of Farmer Believed Drowned When Truck Washed Down Flooded Curra Creek
AN exhaustive search of Curra Creek and the Bell River by police and a large party of civilians has failed to locate the body of a district sharefarmer who is believed to have drowned in the Curra Creek on Saturday night last. The missing man is John Theodore Pearson, 43, single, of Curra Creek, who was last seen in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Bike Accident Foot Caught in Chain
A Mendooran man suffered severely Cacerated-foot last Wednesday. [?] when his foot became entangled in the chain of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Army "Ducks" Save Man From Drowning
Mr. "Paddy" Fitzgerald was rescued by Army "ducks" from the flooded Darling River near Bourke on Thursday after he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bicycle Club Has Cut Down Orange Accidents
Although 300 children have belonged to the City of Orange Junior Bicycle Club since it was formed at the end of 1948, not one member has been involved in a traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drive Through Floods with Injured Woman
Two ambulances were used on Saturday to bring a Warren woman over floodbound roads from her home to the Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Hurt in Head-on Road Accident
Three men were injured in a head-on collision between a car and a utility on Saturday afternoon about 12 miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inquest on Man Drowned in Council Well
A verdict of accidental death by drowning was brought in by the District Coroner (Mr. Christie) at an inquiry at Dubbo this morning into the death of Walter Pettiford (55) whose body was found in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Caused Collision Drove on Wrong Side of Road
Edward Shelley, of Coonabarabran pleaded guilty in the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions last week to having driven his…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motor Accident Sub-clause Debated
Before the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions last week William Robert Harvey, a sharefarmer of Ulamambri, pleaded guilty to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Three Injured in Accidents
Three people were injured in accidents in Dubbo on Thursday. Mr. "Mick" Herring severed the top of a finger of his right…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wife Drives Ambulance on Accident Call
The wife of the Gilgandra Ambulance Superintendent, Mrs. Croxan, on Thursday drove on ambulance to take a patient to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Long Ambulance Trip for Injured Woman
A Warren 'woman who had been suffering from a broken arm and injured hip for a fortnight before she was brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Width Lights on Lorries Scheme to Reduce Accidents
Dubbo Municipal Council decided last night to agitato fort regulations making it compulsory for every lorry to carry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →False Report Cat's Body Mistaken for Drowned Man
The police received word on Friday morning last that a floating "body" was seen by a market gardener near the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wellington Grazier's Heavy Loss. Ewes Accidentally Poisoned
A Wellington district grazier recently lost 270 heavily woolled Merino and crossbred ewes as a result of accidental…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Motor World News and Notes From Tee N.r.m.a. Statements After Accidents
The N.R.M.A. advises motorists to be careful about giving statements, particularly signed ones, after they have been involved in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coroner Returns Findings of Accidental Death In Two Drowning Fatalities
WELLINGTON District Coroner, Mr. J. P. Dowd, returned findings of accidental deaths by drowning at the inquiries into the deaths of John Theodore Pearson (41), who was drowned in the flooded Curra Creek on August 19, and Cecil Martin, who was drowned in the Bell River at Mumbil on August 7th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trucks in Collision at Curra Creek Bridge Thieves Abandon Stolen Towing Truck When Crash Ends Mad Drive
TWO men who stole a tow truck from the rear of Wellington Motors Garage in Swift Street on Friday night last later caused extensive damage to the truck and a lorry in a side-on collision at the Curra Creek bridge near…
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