Motor Truck Crashes. Man Killed--Four Persons Injured
Last Saturday Mr. Alfred Percy Harry, of Six Ways, Miranda, was returning home in a motor truck from a holiday camping expedition at…
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Pilot Injured in Plane Crash. Carried From Wreckage. MELBOURNE
John Sherwin, 27, single, was seriously injured to-day when a Royal Victorian Aero Club Tiger Moth which he was piloting crashed on to a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Your First Aid Cupboard Be Prepared for Holiday Accidents Keep Fresh Medicines Always on Hand
NEVER in all the year is there such a splendid daily opportunity for accidents to occur at at present. Children seem unable to play without scratching their hands, taking the skin off their knees, bruising their cheeks, or getting splinters into their legs…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Ignorance and Carelessness. Main Causes of Accidents. Water Board Figures
Most of the accidents in which employees of the Water Board were concerned in the last six months of 1938 were caused by either carelessness or…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fatal Cycling Accident Four Hurt When Car Capsized
Ernest Ralph Nicol, 20, of Duntroon-street, Hurstville, was killed yesterday when a wheel of his bicycle caught in a tramline and he was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Factory Explosion, Fire Reported Man Critically Injured NEWCASTLE
The Sanitarium Health Food Company's factory at Cooranbong, 5 miles from Dora Creek, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three-Car Crash: Three Injured One of Victims Aged 89
A man aged 89 was one of three persons injured in a triple car smash on the Windsor Road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →16 Injured. Crash at Level Crossing. Tram and Goods Trucks
The driver and 15 passengers suffered minor injuries when a Birchgrove-bound tram crashed into the side of empty goods trucks, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Explosion and Fire. Four Men Injured. Seventh Day Adventist Settlement. Newcastle
Four men suffered burns and other injuries which required admission to hospital and half a dozen others were less seriously injured in an explosion in a fire at the Cooranbong…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Two Men Killed. Heavy Machine Falls 42 Feet. Other Men Injured. Adelaide
Two men were killed and two severely injured when a mechanical air separator, weighing three tons 15cwt, the first of its kind to be introduced into…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Grimmett Expected to Play Injured Leg Tested at Practice Waite, Whitington Should Be Fit For S.A. Team Bradman Attraction
It is almost certain that Grimmett will play for South Australia in the Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales at the S.C.G. to-morrow. He bowled at the nets this morning, and though…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fight Accident Claim Dodgers An alarming increase in industrial accidents is revealed in figures released yesterday by the Sydney Labor Council
T. W. Ritchie, Compensation Officer of the council, declared that the council had handled more claims during 1933 than in any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidental Drowning. Grafton
A finding of accidental drowning. was returned at an inquest at Grafton into the death of Edward Patrick Moloney in Carr's Creek. Marie Campbell, aged 13, said she was…
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MOREE, Friday. -- Jue Hock Lum, 54, Chinese market gardener was found drowned in the Gwydir River yesterday afternoon…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Swept out to sea when surfing at Fairhaven, 12 miles from Lorne, to-day, L. O'Reilly, a student, at Redemptionist Monastery, Ballarat, was…
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James Norman Charles Robinson, 8, and Beryl Margaret Robinson, 11, were admitted to the Blayney District Hospital early on Thursday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mine Worker Injured. West Maitland
A. Lynch, 46, of Dudley, an employee at the Bloomfield Main Colliery, Louth Park, West Maitland, was seriously injured this morning when he was caught between the loader he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatally Injured by Sheep Tumut
A sheep caused the death of a pioneer of the Tumut district. Hugh McLeary. 74, of Mundongo. McLeary was handling a sheep on his property, when it butted him in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Injured in Smash Couple Walk For Aid
A girl with a fractured skull and a man with a shattered collarbone walked two miles for help…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ring of Bushfires Round Sydney People Badly Injured On Blue Mountains
All metropolitan and suburban fire brigades were ordered at one time or another to-day to fight bushfires, of which 200 had been reported up to 5 p.m. It was one of the most strenuous and trying days for…
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