Two Soldiers Injured
Two soldier motor cyclists were injured carly on Monday morning in a collision with a car at the Cabramatta Road intersection with Hume Highway. Kelvin…
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Injured by Motor Cycle
Ruth Niven, 15, of Christian Road, Punchbowl, received injuries to the left thigh, lacerations, and shock when she was knocked down by a motor cycle at…
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Arthur Sellars, 16, apprentice Jockey, of Bunn[?]rong Road, Kingsford, was badly injured when he was thrown from a horse in Bunnerong Road, Kingsford,…
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Frederick Kellow, 67, of Harold Street, Parramatta, was found last night lying beside his bicycle in Blaxcell Road, Road[?] Granville. He was unconscious, and his skull was fractured. The…
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A party from Penrith journeyed by motor bus on Sunday to Hollywood grounds, George's River, to attend the B.C.U. picnic…
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Mr. Walter Bolton, of Evans Street. Penrith, was badly burned about the face in the early hours of Monday morning whilst opening an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents with Firearms. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir—One deplores with Lucy Gullett (S.M.H., 24/2/40) the too-frequent accidents with firearms. usually in the hands of juveniles, and the fact that nothing is done to…
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Charged with manslaughter, Kelso Milton Gordon, 45, business manager, explained at the Quarter Sessions to-day, how an accident was…
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Robert Balse Gelston, 26, Anderson Street Double Bay, who was injured in a car accident in Pittwater Road, Dee Why, on Tuesday night, died in Manly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Express in Collision Junee
The Riverina express collided with an engine and tender at Junee last night. Passengers were thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plucky Rescue by Girl. Friend Saved from Drowning
Harry Huddington, one of the staff at the Bondi Pacific Private Hotel, was saved from drowning in the surf at Bondi yesterday by Miss Joan Smith, 19,…
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Bert William Bell. 20, was killed to-day when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a horse on the Great Western Highway, Marrangaroo,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Floods Cover Vast Area Two Men Drowned In Queensland BRISBANE
An area greater than Victorias 81,884 square miles is estimated to be now under flood in Queensland as a result of the renewal of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clapp Collision a Misadventure
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Misadventure will be the finding of the Coroner who inquired today into the death of two men killed when a taxicab collided with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armoured Car in Accident. Five Militiamen Injured
Five militiamen, forming the crew of an armoured car, were injured when the car left the load, ran down a four-foot embankment, smashed through a fence and…
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Warren Peel. 3½, suffered lacerations and abrasions to the body, and an injury to the head to-day, when he was knocked down by a motor car…
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JUNEE, Friday. -- The Riverina Express, night passenger train from Sydney to Wagga, crashed into a railway engine near Junee station last night…
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CESSNOCK, Friday. -- George Cook, 65, was injured when his cycle and a motor car collided at Bellbird tonight. He was admitted to Cessnock Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Women Drowned. London, March 1, (A. A. P.)
Five Belfast women voluntary workers at a centeen, who were driving home in a motor car during a "blacout" last night, drove into a harbour dock, and all were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Injured Man on Roof. Difficult Task for Ambulance
Two officers of the Canterbury-Bankstown Ambulance had a difficult task last night when a man, whose spine had been fractured, collapsed on a high roof…
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