Harbour Collision
The Union Steam Ship Company's steamer, which was very badly damaged in a collision with a Blue Star liner last Thursday…
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Rescue Girl From Drowning
After a terrific struggle against huge breakers, a lifesaver, Roy O'Hara, yesterday rescued a girl from drowning after she had been…
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Killed in the collision between two ships beneath the Harbor Bridge off Dawes Point last Thursday, the body of J. Sharz, greaser, of Auckland,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seaman's Body Recovered. Harbour Collision
The body of the missinir membci of the crew of the freighter which collided with a liner in Sydney Harbour last Thursday night was found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Schoolboy Injured by Car
William Taylor, 6, of Edith Street, Leichhardt, while on his way to school with his brother, was knocked down by a car while crossing Marion Street. Leichhardt, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Truck Overturns. Four Passengers Injured. West Wyalong
When the utility truck in which she was a passenger, overturned, Joyce Buckman, 19 received severe head and thigh injuries. The driver of the vehicle Charles Ernest Bertram…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pay for Dog's Treatment Injured In Fight With Alsatian
"If this claim is justifiable, these courts will be filled with cases resulting from the innumerable dog fights which occur every day in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snakes Crawl Over Injured Men. Charmer's" Truck Overturns. Moss Vale
Four men, 60 venomous snakes, and a number of lizards, were thrown to the roadway when a motor truck overturned on the Hume Highway to-day…
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After a car accident at St. Marys, on the Western -highway, last night, a man collapsed while waiting examination at Penrith Hospital, and died…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inquiry Into Plane Accident
Civil Aviation officials are investigating tile circumstances in which the Brisbane-Townsviile airliner was damaged while landing last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Drowned on Starting Holiday Gosford
Half an hour after he had arrived for a holiday to-day. Henry George Artlett about 54, of Mosman, was drowned at Toowoon Bay, The…
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Baby Sandy, new wonder child of the screen, has definitely abandoned the male impersonations in which she rose to fame to East side of Heaven…
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MOREE, Tuesday.--A driver with three passengers in a single-seater coupe had been unduly cramped and prevented from acting quickly in an emergency,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents of the Week Cricketer Injured
While William Watson, wicket-keeper for the Kiora AII grade cricket team in the St. George Cricket Association, was playing last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain's Story of Collision
One minute before a collision between a Blue Star liner and a Union freighter on the Harbor on the night…
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Two motor cyclists were seriously injured in a collision with a car at the intersection of Lucas Road and Parramatta Road early on Saturday night…
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The bodies of Mrs. Charlotte May Cudby and her seven-months-old son, Alan, were recovered yesterday from three feet of water in Hollingsworth Creek, South Lismore. When…
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Henry George Artlett, 57, of Prince Albert Street, Mosman, was drowned at Toowoon Bay, The Entrance, yesterday. He is believed to have collapsed shortly…
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On Tuesday Mr Cacil Hewitt, of Haynes Street, Penrith, suffered a severely crushed finger when, in shunting trucks at Emu Gravel Works, he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby and Mother Drowned Lismore
Police have been told a pathetic story of a woman's devotion to her baby, following the discovery on…
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