Motor Cycles in Many Fatal Accidents
The Commissioner for Road Transport. Mr. C. N. Neale, said yesterday that 35.5 per cent, of the fatal accidents during January involved motor cyclists. This was much higher than…
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Watch Motor Cyclists Many More Fatal Accidents
The Road Transport Department may ask the police to keep a special watch upon the road behavior of motor cyclists, in view of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Little Girls Drowned Caught by Wash of Ferry Boat MELBOURNE
IN full view of the passengers on a Yarra ferry boat to-day Hilda Buchanan (11) and Betty Delaney (10) were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Grim Toll of Death Flood Twenty-Two Believed To Have Drowned As They Slept In N.Z. Works Camp AUCKLAND
Caught when a terrific deluge of storm-water swept into a public works camp at Wairoa, near Napier, while they slept early this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deluge Of Death In New Zealand Rail Camp Twenty-two Believed To Be Drowned Tragedy Came Upon Sleeping Men With Startling Suddenness AUCKLAND
In a flood-water deluge of death which ripped up bridges, tossed huge trees about like matches and swept everything before it, 22 public works employees who were asleep in their camp near Wairoa are believed to have…
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Miss Gertrude Dittmer, 49, who disappeared on Saturday from the Wendouree private hospital, Wayville, was found drowned in the River Torrens, near Frome Road Bridge, at 11…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Children Drowned. Yarra River Tragedy. MELBOURNE
Venturing from a shallow wading pool into the Yarra River at Studley Park yesterday afternoon, two girls were drowned. Althouglf many swimmers were bathing near them, only…
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CAUGHT in the wash of a passing ferry boat, two little girls, who were swimming in the Yarra near Collins Bridge, Abbotsford, yesterday,…
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F. O'Brien, of Kogarah Bay, suffered slight concussion and shock during the first trotting race, the President's Handicap, at the Wyong Show on Saturday afternoon. His horse, Chker,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Twenty-one Drowned. Floods Sweep Camp Away. "Wall of Water." Auckland (N.z.)
It is now reveaied that 20 men and one young woman were swept to their deaths when a huge wall of floodwaters tore through the Kopuawhara…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Workmen Drowned in Sleep 21 Are Swept To Death In N.Z. Deluge Tragic Scenes Wellington (N.z.)
EIGHTEEN bodies have been recovered and a search was carried on throughout the day for three others following a disastrous deluge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toll Of The Road Two, More Killed by Motors List of Smashes Is Heavy Many Seriously Injured WEEK-END
TWO persons were killed and many injured in road accidents during the. week-end. Following a collision yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Accidents. Car Suddenly Leaves Road. Overturns; Occupants Trapped
Two people were trapped beneath an overturned car, and one, a woman, was seriously injured, in a curious accident on the main road between Galston and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trapped in Car Wreckage Man Was Seriously Injured Violent Collision With Tram Bondi Junct
CRUSHED in the wreckage of a car, and extricated with considerable difficulty, following a violent collision with a…
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The wreckage of a car which collided head on with a tram in Oxford Street, Bondi Junction last night. A man was seriously injured. The driver of the tram escaped with cuts…
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In the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Owen a jury awarded Thomas H. von Schill, of Bondi, £466 damages against William Jennings, of Bondi, for injuries received…
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THIS INDESCRIBABLE WRECKAGE was a motor car until seven o'clock last night. Then it collided with a tram at the corner of Adelaide and Oxford Streets, Bondi Junction. The driver of the car was taken to Eastern Suburbs Hospital in a critical condition…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Car's Wild Dash. Collision with Tram. Man in Hospital
While police were receiving exciting reports that a car had dashed through the streets of Darlinghurst, Woollahra, and Waverley last night, a crash…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Country News. Brothers Injured on Motor Cycle. Bowral
Two brothers, Michael Moylan, 19, and Frank Moylan, 15, of Undercliffe Street, Neutral Bay, were seriously injured last night when their motor cycle came into collision…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Causes in No. 6 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Stephen.) Motor Accident. Donnelly v Gainford
A settlement, on terms not disclosed, was arrived at in the action by Norma May Donnelly, aged 9 years, through her next friend, against Rodney Clive Ga[?]nford, to recover…
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