Drop in accident rate in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Wed.: The all-out police "blitz" on traffic offenders in Victoria this year has produced 44,000…
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Boy Drowned
ADELAIDE Thursday: A seven-year-old boy holidaying with his parents in a caravan at Renmark was drowned in…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A man was drowned and a youth is missing, believed to have been drowned, when six people were washed out to sea at Kilcare Beach, near Woy Woy, today…
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Mr. Edward Goddard, 45, while stripping wheat on his farm at Nathalie (Vic.), on Christmas Eve, fell from his header, receiving fatal injuries…
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There was a burning accident on Christmas Eve, at a Christmas Party at the home of…
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A Ganmain young man was admitted to the Wagga Base Hospital after he had…
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On Sunday evening a drowning accident occurred at Lake Talbot, of which Miss Zelpha Evelyn Ware, daughter of…
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Two people (a young man and a teen-aged girl) were drowned in different parts of die Riverina yesterday. They were: Zeipher Evelyn Ware…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Three people died in Victorian road accidents during the weekend. In addition to the wife of a…
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A 14-year-old boy was hurt, but his father and brother escaped injury on Saturday night in a road accident three miles north of The Rock on the Wagga-Albury Road…
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The popular bathing resort Lake Talbot, Narrandera, was the scene of a drowning accident on Sunday evening, when Zelpher…
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Garry Middleton Anstee, of Pall Street, 6 years, was drowned in the Griffith Baths on Friday night. Garry who was not able to…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A jockey had been killed after he had tried to stop his horse prancing during training…
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A 22 year old Junee man was drowned while swimming in the Murrumbidgee River at Oura this week…
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A Gundagai woman was injured when the tar she was driving struck another vehicle which was parted in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tragic Shooting Accident at Grong Grong Death of James Harry McKIRDY District Coroner's Remarks at Inquiry
The District Coroner (Mr. J. S. Dickson) yesterday held an inquiry into the cause of the death of James Harry McKirdy, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclist with Leg Fractured Swims Out of Lagoon Six Accidents In District Over Holiday Period
A cyclist who crashed into the lagoon at Jessop’s Cutting on Christmas Day, and who had his leg fractured in the accident, showed extraordinary pluck and stamina in swimming out of the six-feet deep water hole into which he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Dies After Being Hit by Car New Year’s Day Accident At Jugiong
Conveyed to the Gundagai Hospital after being seriously injured when struck by- a motor car at Jugiong on New Year’s Day, an elderly woman died the following night from the effects of the impact…
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In the presence of a large crowd at Lake Talbot, Narranderaâs Swimming Pool, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Injured in Accident Utility Overturns
A small utility, which was carrying a driver and three passengers, overturned when it skidded in loose gravel on the…
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