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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Balmain Ferry Holed In Collision, Beached

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 9

WITH water pouring into a hole smashed in its stem in a collision with a punt, the 46ft. ferry, Regina, had to be beached near Balmain about 6 p.m. yesterday. No passengers were aboard, and when the vessel was beached the crew…

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Balmain Ferry Holed In Collision, Beached

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 9

WITH water pouring into a hole smashed in its stem in a collision with a punt, the 46ft. ferry, Regina, had to be beached near Balmain about 6 p.m. yesterday. No passengers were aboard, and when the vessel was beached the crew…

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Balmain Ferry Holed In Collision, Beached

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 9

WITH water pouring into a hole smashed in its stem in a collision with a punt, the 46ft. ferry, Regina, had to be beached near Balmain about 6 p.m. yesterday. No passengers were aboard, and when the vessel was beached the crew…

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Injured Woman Lies Helpless On Track

The Sun · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 7

Suffering head injuries, and with her left arm broken, a 46-year-old woman lay helpless on the main Illawarra line between Oatley and Mortdale after falling from a train this afternoon…

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Queensland Organiser Killed. W. Hayes, of Charleville, in Car Accident

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 16

Queensland Branch A.W.U. Organiser W. Hayes, attached to the South Western District at Charleville, was killed when a car in…

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Three Hurt In Trans Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 2

Three persons were injured and a number had narrow escapes when two trams collided at the intersection of Ultimo…

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Three Hurt In Tram Collision

The Sun · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 3
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Three persons were injured when two trains collided in Ultimo-road, Pyrmont, this afternoon…

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Three Hurl In Tram Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 2

Three men were injured and passengers were showered with broken glass and splintered woodwork when a crowded…

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Injured in Crash at Start of Honeymoon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 4

HOBART, Thursday --An hour after her wedding reception, Mrs. Bryan Gough Waller, formerly Miss Helen Lord, pretty Hobart socialite,…

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Injured in Crash at Start of Honeymoon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 4

HOBART, Thursday --An hour after If her wedding reception, Mrs. Bryan Gough Waller, formerly Miss Helen Lord, pretty Hobart socialite,…

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Injured in Crash at Start of Honeymoon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 4

HOBART, Thursday --An hour after her wedding reception. Mrs. Bryan Gough Waller, formerly Miss Helen Lord, pretty Hobart socialite,…

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4-Years-old Girl Dies After Road Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 7

CAROLYN JOAN JACKSON (4), Bexley Rd., Earlwood, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when she. alighted from a bus at a…

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4-Years-old Girl Dies After Road Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 7

CAROLYN JOAN JACKSON (4), Bexley Rd., Earlwood, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when she alighted from a bus at a…

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4-Years-old Girl Dies After Road Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 7

CAROLYN JOAN JACKSON (4), Bexley Rd., Earlwood, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when she alighted from a bus at a…

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4-Years-old Girl Dies After Road Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 7

CAROL JOAN JACKSON (4), Bexley Rd., Earlwood, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when she alighted from a bus at a…

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Indian Strikes Drowned In Blood

Tribune · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 2

BOMBAY.—The All-India Trades Union Congress has asked British Labor representatives to “make note of the policy of the British-controlled government of India and the feudal princes of the native states to…

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Injured Man 5 Hours On Line

The Sun · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 1

A man found unconscious on the railway line between Stan- more and Newtown, at 5.30 am today, is believed to have lain…

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The road accident rate is rising but trams aren't to blame a Statement by the Transport Commissioner Ordinary care and courtesy would avert nine out of ten street mishaps

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 8

ONE of the big and serious social problems Of the post-war period is the prevention of road…

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Man Electrocuted in Freak Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 7

A man was electrocuted at Quirindi last night when a frightened horse jolted him out of a sulky on to a live wire. The man killed was Raymond McMaster, 27, of Quirindi. When his body was found in Gastard Road his charred left…

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