Two Drowned
SYDNEY. Sunday: Two people were drowned in the metropolitan area today. Bruce McCain (8), of…
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Drowning at Alice Springs
ADELAIDE, Monday.—A New Australian was drowned at Alice springs, in the parched dead-heart of the Australian…
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A police constable was pinned beneath his overturned police truck for 20 minutes on Saturday night. The policeman was seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Man Drowned:was Swimming Near Wagga Beach
A 52-year-old Wagga man was drowned in the Murrumbidgee near the Wagga Beach on Saturday: He was Thomas Leonard Armstrong, a retired farmer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Turned Over Three Times. But Junee Resident Not Seriously Injured
Despite the fact that the utility in which they were travelling turned over three times as they were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tractor Rolls on Man . Fatal Accident At Tooma
A fatal accident occurred at Tooma last week when Mr. John Daniel Murray, aged 36 years, was crushed…
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A serious, and most unusual accident has brought painful results to Mr. Jack Cooney, of Thomas street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Twelve-year-old Saves Child From Drowning in Old Griffith Baths
Quick thinking on the part of a 12-year-old schoolboy prevented a drowning tragedy at the old swimming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Injured in Collsion Between Motor Cycle and Cycle
Two persons were injured when a motor cycle collided head on with a pedal cycle on the road that runs to the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A 54-year-old fanner and his 8-year-old son were killed, and two other persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Witness describes double collision to Court
A witness told the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that a car hod travelled at between 50 and 55 miles per hour on its wrong side of the road before colliding with two other cars coming from the opposite direction…
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Mr. W. Emerson of Farm 741. Wamoon, fell from a fruit car and fractured his right elbow on Wednesday last about 12 o'clock…
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On Wednesday last about 1.15 p.m., Sir. Pat Poliment of Farm 272, Leeton was working at the cannery when he was hit on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Matong Resident Critically Injured Utility Overturns
On Sunday evening last, a utility truck, driven by Mr. Rupert Richardson, of Matong, with Mr. G…
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Junior country swimming champion Robyn James may have jeopardised her 110 yards title this…
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A witness in the Wagga Coroner's Court yesterday said that Thomas Leonard Armstrong, 52, had complained of feeling ill about 3 1/2 hours before he…
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LOCKHART, Friday: When Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hickman and baby of Hamllton, Victoria, entered Urana Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launch capsises: two men drowned
SYDNEY, Sunday: Two men were drowned when their fishing launch was overturned while crossing the Forster Bar yesterday afternoon…
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A driver of a motor truck had a narrow escape on Saturday evening last, whon the back of his vehicle was hit by a…
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well known Mangoplah resident. Keith Harper (22) died in the Wagga Base Hospital last night following…
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