Five Hurt in Triple Collision
Five persons, two of whom are members of the 2nd A.I.F., were injured last night in a collision involving a car, a motor…
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Italian Warplanes in Mid-air Collision
ROME, Friday.--Two warplanes collided in mid-air near Rome yesterday. One pilot was killed. The other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Young Child Drowned in Watcrhole. Bathurst
Peter Bennett, [?] months-old boy, was found drowned in a waterhole near his home at Wattle Flat, following heavy rains in the district. The child, who was the son of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Trainer Has New Plan Subsidised Beds For Injured Riders
WHEN a jockey is seriously injured in a track or race accident in Sydney, he is generally taken to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Sun" Short Story Accidents Happen
People were staring. It wasn't, Margery reflected, because she was wearing an enormous straw hat. It wasn't, Margery felt certain because the polka dotted silk tied in a big knot on the shoulder of her dress burst…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grave Accidente Sul Lavoro
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JUNEE, Saturday. -- "I will come to the dance tonight unless I have an accident." Ten minutes after she had said…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mystery Drowning
BRISBANE, Sunday.--Detectives are faced with a mystery following the discovery to-day of the body of an unidentified woman in the Bremer River,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Injured
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--A woman, her daughter-in-law, and grandson, were injured today when they were hit by a motor cycle and side-car in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Injured Seaman Dies
John Price, 39, a British seaman, who had both legs crushed by a steel hawser on a liner in the Harbor on Friday, died yesterday in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →3 Washed Into Sea, Drowned
Three men, two of them brothers, were drowned yesterday when they were swept off a rock while fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Men Drowned. Fishing Tragedy. Washed Off Rocks
Three men, members of a fishing party of four, were drowned when they were washed off the rocks at a point known as The Gulf, between…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Driver Hurt at Trots Thrown From Gig In Collision
After leaving the straight the second time round in the President's Unhoppled Handicap at Harold Park trots to-day, Ray Rock, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Injured Gunner Dies in Hospital Newcastle
Gunner Robert Felix Lamb, of Boundary-street, Roseville, who was one of 23 injured when a military truck skidded and overturned…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cricketer Injured. R. Saggers Struck by Bat. MURWILLUMBAH
R. Saggers, the interstate player, was hit on the head by a bat, when keeping wickets for W. F. Ives's team against Tweed District at Murwillumbah on Saturday. Saggers had to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Family Injured in Tram Safety Zone Boy, Mother and Grandmother Struck by Cycle
A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy, his mother and his grandmother were injured yesterday when struck by a motor cycle and sidecar in a tramway safety zone in Victoria Street, Rozelle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R.A.A.F. Sergeant's Fatal Accident London
Flight-Sergeant Sidney Oliver, an Australian who was serving with the R.A.A.F. Sunderland flying-boat squadron, has died of a fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wharf Labourer Drowned
The body of Joseph Patrick Duffy, 69, a wharf labourer, of Blake Street, Waverley, was found in the harbour near Erskine Street, city, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Airman Fatally Injured. Accident in Black-out. LONDON, April 15. (A.A.P.)
Flight-Sergeant Sidney Oliver, an Australian, and a member of the R.A.A.F Sunderland Squadron, died from a fractured skull as a result of being knocked down by a car…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Injured Girl. Ambulance Complaint About Hospital. Superintendent's Reply
According to the records of the Central District Ambulance, Miss Gladys Henley, 20, of Morrison Road, Ryde, whose leg had been badly fractured in…
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