Girl Injured by Lorry
Constance Isabel McGeorge, 13, narrowly escaped serious injury when struck by a lorry near her home in Elm Road, Auburn, last night…
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Jockey Billy Elliot Injured at Caulfield
LEADING lightweight jockey Billy Elliot fell from the two-year-old Chatsbury at Caulfield on Friday morning, and fractured his right leg…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fell From Wharf, Injured on Punt
Falling from the ferry wharf at Manly to-day, Thomas Boyd, 58, of Onslow-street, Rose Bay, struck a punt below the wharf and fell into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rugby Trials. Injured Players. Several Withdrawals. Wilson Has Influenza
Injuries and illness have taken toll of the Rugby Union players, striving for selection in the Australian team to tour Great Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Supreme Court. Causes in No. 7 COURT. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Barton and a jury.) Motor Collision
Angus Raymond McKay, of Burwood, sought to recover from Horace William Hamersley, of Marrickville, £1,000 damages for injuries received as the result of a collision between…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Carnival Accidents. Forbes
Ernest Wighton, 45, an aboriginal, was fatally injured when he fell from a lorry, while on his way from Condobolin to attend a hockey carnival at Forbes yesterday. He…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Accidentally Shot
Miss Dorothy Wenham, 28, was accidentally shot in the thigh at her dressmaker's shop in Crystal Street, Petersham, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fireman Injured
When the Waterloo Fire Brigade was speeding to a fire in the prem[?]s of the Australian Bitumen Products, Ltd., in Euston Road, Alexandria, last night, the driver applied his brakes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coroner Attacks Casual Attitude In Punt Drowning NEWCASTLE
An employee on the Hexham punt on June 28 was told "to keep an eye out on the return trip as a man had fallen overboard, but he would probably get ashore all right."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Saved by Mates From Drowning Fell From Wharf At Manly
After falling from the cargo wharf at Manly yesterday, Thomas Boyd, 58, of Onslow Street, Rose Bay, was saved from drowning by his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured, Lies in Cold All Night
MOREE, Wednesday.--Peter Geraghty, 52, fell from a railway bridge last night and lay all night in the wet and cold. Aborigines found him this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Car Somersaults. Two Persons Injured
Last Saturday afternoon a motor car, driven by Clarence Engert, of Rozelle, carne into collision with another car at the corner of Forest Road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rugby Trials. Coach Misses Training. Injured Players. Richards Resting in Bed
The latest addition to the list of sick and injured Rugby Union players and officials is Mr. Stanley Ryan, Queensland member of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Accidents
Kellas Page, motor driver, of 69 Midson Road, Epping, suffered shock on Sundav in an accident. When driving a car towards Penrith he hit a bank…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents at Corners
"A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the failure of motorists…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Taxi Accidents. "Peak Period From 5 to 6 p.m."
Accidents in which taxi-cabs are involved occur more frequently between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. than at any other period according to evidence given yesterday at the taxi inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Accidents of the Week. 'Bus Kills Horses
A boy was injured and two horses were killed when a motor bus crashed into them in Port Hacking Road, Caringbah, last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Winter Dangers Road Accident Causes. (Issued by the Road Safety council of New South Wales.)
Serious road accidents, many of them fatal have been reported from almost all parts of the State in the last lew weeks, and the principal cause has been set…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fairfield Cyclist Killed Tragic Accident in Road Race
FIBROUS PLASTER First Quality Sheets made to any size. ART CEILINGS fixed by Competent Tradesmen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Apprentice Injured
C. Galpin, who is apprenticed to the Newcastle trainer, C. Unwin, had his left collarbone broken when a colt which he was working on the Newcastle Jockey…
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