Eye Injured by Wire
Victor Ross Dahlenburg. school boy, of Farm 452, Leeton, was playing at his home yesterday afternoon, when he ran into a wire, portion of which…
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R.A.A.F. Accidents No Need Fob Royal Commission Sydney
The Minister for Air (Mr. M'Ewen) said today that he did not think there was any need for a Royal Commison a number of recent accidents. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wharfworker Drowned SYDNEY
Edward John Thornton, aged 36 years, single, wharf laborer, was drowned when he was knocked into the water while working at Jones' Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lighterman Badly Injured Melbourne
Carl Antonsen, aged 47 years, lighterman lay for 18 hours in agony, too badly injured to call for help, in the hold of his cargo lighter at Victoria Docks, before he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Recipe for a Motor Accident
Take one careless fool, a few drops of intoxicating liquor, and a motor car. Put the liquor into the tool, and the fool into the motor car. Watch carefully…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dewhurst Injured New Rider for Pamelus Melbourne
As the jockey, A. Dewhurst, met with a mishap while riding a two-year-old on the track on Thursday morning, and has been advised by his doctor to rest over the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Skull Fractured in Collision
Severe injuries were received by a member of the staff of the Bonegilla military post office on Saturday night when the car he was driving and a truck owned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Drowned Brisbane
Floods have caused considerable damage in Queensland. Two-thirds of Queensland received heavy rain, while the Carpentaria region has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Hand Injured
Eltham Carter, an employee of Cr. J. H. Shipard, of "Fitzroy," Henty, was kicked in the ice by a pony, while attempting to catch it on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Drowned in Storm Water Channel Sydney
Raymond Sutherland, aged 9 years, of Homebush, was drowned last night while attempting to swim for help for his sister, Gloria, aged 7 years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bus Overturns Ten People Injured Canberra
A heavily laden tourist bus plunged down an embankment and overturned on Federal Highway, 20 miles from Canberra, to-day. Ten passengers were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Floods South Australia Heavy Sufferer Five Believed Drowned Lives Lost in Queensland
Floods have spread a trail of devastation through the settled areas of South Australia and five persons we believed to have been drowned. Four…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tumut Woman Injured by Tram in Sydney Driver Collapses Sydney
So badly shocked was the driver when his tram seriously injured a country woman at Newtown to-day that be collapsed and had to be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Seriously Hurt in Griffith Cycle Accidents
William Whitaker (58), of Griffith, was rendered unconscious on Thursday evening as the result of a collision between two bicycles about a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Fatality BRISBANE
Thomas B. Hawkins, 59, carrier, was killed to-night when his truck collided with an Air Force tender during heavy rain. Some soldiers on the truck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell Off Load of Lucerne Mr. Martin McCormick Injured
An accident that could have had serious consequences occurred on the Gundagai-Tumut road yesterday afternoon. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.A.F. Accidents "Personal Misjudgment the Main Cause" Minister Promises Utmost Attention Melbourne
The Air Minister (Mr. M'Ewen) said to-day that of the last nine air accidents investigated, it had been established beyond all question that in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Admiration Dead Good Country Performer in Street Accident Sydney
Admiration a four-year-old chestnut gelding by imported Tippler from the imported mare, Admired, was destroyed last night after a fall in Epsom-road, near the Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Councillor in Near-collision
Cr. F. C. Mountford says that when returning home from Wagga on Wednesday night he had demonstrated to him very clearly how cyclist vicitms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FATHER McCUSKER DROWNED Tried to Save Two Boys
CANBERRA, Friday: The Rev. Father John M'Cusker, M.A., Dip. Ed., inspector of Catholic schools in the Goulburn diocese, parish priest at…
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