Pea Rifle Accident
Yesterday afternoon, (Mr. Nigel Winnell, of Ganmain, while on a shooting expedition, picked up a loaed pea-rifle, which discharged,…
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Young Cyclist Injured
Eight-year-old Maureen Padley, of 10 Richard Street, Wagga, received a probable dislocation to the right elbow when she fell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brungle Fatality Coronial Inquiry
The Tumut Coroner, Mr. R. L. Blakeney, J.P., last Thursday conducted an inquiry into the death of Richard Purcell, age 25, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leeton Printer's Hand Injured
LEETON, Monday: A 17-year-old printer was taken to the Leeton District Hospital after his right hand became…
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LEETON, Tuesday: A 17-year-old printer was taken to the Leeton District Hospital after his right hand became jammed in a printing press at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Star Port Injured in Smash Scratched from A.J.C. Engagements
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Star Pore Victorian Doncaster Handicap fancy, was injured during a smash at Randwick this morning, and will be unable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Give Accidents a Holiday, Too!
Holidays are just round the corner. And with them comes the dread that many people will be killed or injured in road accidents, "This need not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hand Caught in Machinery Accident at "Irrigator" Office
Keith Hutchinson, an apprentice on our staff in the printing department, was operating a platen press yesterday afternoon when he had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidental Death Verdicts in Two Griffith Inquests
GRIFFITH, Tuesday: At an inquest today into the death of Renzo Andreatta, the coroner, Mr. W. D. Bull, found that the deceased had died on March 17 at Griffith from the effects of a ruptured liver…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured Clown Awarded £4000
SYDNEY, Wednesday: A clown who broke his neck during a "knockabout" acrobatic act was awarded £4000 damages in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Killed Collision at Griffith
Brian Webber Stacy, aged 18, was killed when his motor cycle collided with a pedal cyclist at Griffith on Sunday morning. His pillion rider,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Payment to Injured Leeton Footballers
LEETON, Wednesday: The Leeton Rugby League will pay any injured player this season an amount of £5/10/ per week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brungle Shooting Fatality Was an Accident Yoking Man Had Climbed Fence on Way Home From Duck Quest Tumut Coroner Referred to Excellent Character of Deceased
Well-known Brungle resident Richard Purcell, aged 25 years, was accidentally shot dead when he was getting through a fence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir P. Game Injured
LONDON, Friday: Air Vice Marshal Sir Philip Game, former Governor of New South Wales, fractured his ankle when a car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Injured Near Yanco
LEETON, Monday: Motor cyclist Roy Dillon, of Moulamein, near Hay, was admitted to the Leeton Hospital late on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram and Garbage Truck Collide Two Injured
SYDNEY, Wednesday: A tram was wrecked in a collision with a fully loaded garbage truck at Waverley this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Seriously Injured in Tram Smash
SYDNEy, Wednesday: Two men were seriously injured and a tramcar was wrecked this morning, when it collided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cairo-haifa Express Blown Up 40 Killed; 60 Injured
JERUSALEM, Thursday: At electrically detonated landmine yesterday blew up the Coiro- Haifa express, killing 40 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Causeway Blamed for Wagga Fatality
A causeway at the intersection of Edward and Docker street, Wagga, had greatly contributed to an accident which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Blames Causeway for Wagga Fatality
A causeway at the intersection of Edward and Docker Streets, Wagga, had greatly contributed to an accident which had caused the death of Roy Alphonsus Leighton, the Wagga Coroner (Mr. A. J…
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