Accident After Crash
Although uninjured when his car crashed into a fence in Conder Street. Burwood, last night, Kevin Dwyer, of Kays Avenue, Dulwich Hill, had two ribs…
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Trainer Injured
E. J. O'Dwyer, the Melbourne owner-trainer, suffered concussion and a lacerated head when he was thrown from a horse at Mordialloc. He was riding a hack and…
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A Sydney County Council car and a bus which were involved in a collision in Parramatta Road yesterday. The driver of the car, Rubin Coleman, was taken to Prince Alfred Hospital with head injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Forty-five Children Drowned. [?] March 20. (A.A.P.)
Forty-five schoolchildren, whose ages ranged from seven to nine years, were drowned while skating on Lake Krzemieniec, the ice cracking suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WOMAN M.L.A. DEAD. Miss May Holman. Motor Car Accident. Perth
Miss May Holman, M.L.A., the first woman member of Parliament in Australia, died this afternoon from injuries suffered in a motor accident…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The stewards at Moonee Valley today held an inquiry into the cause of Ellison losing his rider (V. Hartney) near the seven…
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William McIntyre, 52, a salesman, of [?] Point Road, Glebe, had an ear almost se[?] his chest injured, and his face severely [?] ated when he was knocked down by a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Believed Drowned Flood Deluges In N. Queensland BRISBANE
A man who was seen clinging to an upturned boat in the flooded Johnstone River at Innisfail, is believed to have been drowned and…
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A jury in the Supreme Court last night, after having been locked up for six hours, gave a verdict by a majority for £1,500 in an action which was brought by Thomas Beattle…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Accidentally Gassed Himself In Car
By automatically starting the engine of his car in the garage after having arrived home late at night, Donald Errol Wilson, 49,…
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A gift of £1 forwarded by a Daily Telegraph reader for the widow of Mr. William Hayes was given to Mrs. Hayes yesterday…
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GOULBURN, Tuesday.--Remarking to his fellow employees that the job he was about to do would not take long, Joseph Painter, 49, shift electrician at the…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- David William Okabunda, 80, a Cingalee, was drowned today in the floods on the Far North Coast…
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Yvonne Hayes, 8, of Chindera, died last night from injuries received when her bicycle and a motor car collided on the Pacific Highway at Banora Point, near Tweed Hoads,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lithgow Accidents. Lithgow
Donald Bourke, 5, fell from a rock near his home in Pitt's Paddock, Lithgow, and fractured his right leg. He was admitted to the Lithgow Hospital…
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James Anderson, 23, Leichhardt Soccer Club's star centre-forward and a former Scottish international, was…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →No Help for 3 HOURS Miners Protest After Accident
THIRROUL, Wed.--Seriously injured in an accident in Excelsior Mine yesterday, Thomas Richards, miner, Thirroul, was nearly three hours in reaching Built…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Accident at Luddenham
While leaving Luddenham showground in his lorry on March 18, Prank Orton, of Secant Street, Liverpool, had the misfortune to be struck by another lorry…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday. -- William Evans, 45, miner, who was admitted to Cessnock Hospital on Monday, died today. He had been struck by a fall of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One Killed, Two Injured
BRISBANE, Thurs. -- One man was killed and two were injured when a car and a lorry met in a terrific head-on collision on the main Toowoomba Highway,…
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