Baby Girl Killed; 3 Injured
A baby girl was killed and her baby brother, mother and grandfather were badly injured when the car in…
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Drowning Tragedy. Two Women and Child. Flood Sweeps Car Away
Two women and an infant were drowned when a motor car was swept away in a flooded creek near Manildra last night…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bullet in Lung. Explosion in Copper Fire. Girl Badly Injured
Police believe that fire discharged the bullet which is embedded in a lung of Miss Edna Healey, 18, who was admitted to the Parramatta Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Accidents at Katoomba. Katoomba
Albert Gough, 31, of Tank Street, Lithgow, was assisting to build a shed on the Kanimbla Valley Road construction when he fell and fractured his ribs and suffered from shock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flying-boat Rammed by Junk. Accident at Moorings. SINGAPORE, March 10. (A.A.P.)
The starboard wing and an airscrew of the eastbound Empire flying-boat, Carpentaria, were damaged when the machine was rammed by a Chinese junk while at her moorings…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Stop-press Killed in Collision
Cyril Stokes, 24, of Bunnerong-road, Yarra Bay, was fatally injured last night when his motor cycle and an ambulance car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Men Injured By Larrikins
Three men who were attacked by a gang of larrikins in a lane off Newcombe-street, Paddington, late yesterday afternoon, were taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Education Keeps Down Accidents
Last year 84,407 accidents covered by compensation occured in industry in N.S.W. This is an increase on the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Girl, 4, Drowned
GOSFORD, Sunday.--Sylvia Howard, 4, of Cooranbong, was found drowned in Dora Creek late yesterday afternoon. It is believed that the child was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Long Fight Saves Drowning Man
A MAN rescued from drowning at Dee Why yesterday revived after artificial resuscitation and oxygen had been applied for an hour. After struggling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Cyclists Hurt In Collision
Four cyclists were injured when their machines were involved in collisions last night. Miss Pearl Melville, 35, of Wallace…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two Injured in Crash
MAITLAND, Sunday.--Two men were injured when a car crashed into a bridge near the Allynwick turnoff, on the Miller's Forest road today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cyclist Injured. Bulli
John O'shea, of Turramurra, was admitted to hospital with severe lacerations to his face, throat, and neck, which he received when the motor cycle he was riding crashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Find Bodies Of Three Drowned ORANGE
The bodies of the three victims trapped in a car in a flooded creek on Friday have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Men Drowned In Closed Car ADELAIDE
Four men were drowned when their closed car fell over a bank into six feet of water at Pelican Point, soon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable Injured Red Cliffs Riot MELBOURNE
A double fracture of the nose was the result to Constable F. T. Kennedy, of the "Battle of Red Cliffs"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Child and Old Man Drowned. Both Fell from Improvised Bridges. NEWCASTLE
Sylvia Howard, 4, of Cooranbong, and atrick Brown, 80, of Cessnock, were drowned in similar circumstances during the weekend. The little girl slipped into Dor[?] Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flying-boat Holed. Batavia Accident. Australians on Board. Singapore, March 12
The flying-boat Capella, outwardbound from Australia, struck a submerged object when taxi-ing at Batavia and was holed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Thorby in Accident. Official's Car Wrecked. Woman Badly Hurt
The Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Thorby, and Mr. P. W. Nette, former Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, and now chief accountant of the National…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'Horseplay Accidents'
"Horseplay at meal hours causes more accidents than anything else in industry," Mr. H. R. Schroder, works manager of the Kandos Cement Co.,…
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