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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Boy Saves Brother From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Seven-years-old Alan Bilston rescued his three-years-old brother, Robert, from drowning…

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Boy Saves Brother From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Seven-years-old Alan Bilston rescued his three-years-old brother, Robert, from drowning…

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Boy Saves Brother From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Seven-years-old Alan Bilston rescued his three-years-old brother, Robert, from drowning…

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Boy Saves Brother From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Seven-years-old Alan Bilston rescued his three-years-old brother, Robert, from drowning…

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Boy Saves Brother From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Seven-years-old Alan Bilston rescued his three-years-old brother, Robert, from drowning…

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Two Injured In River Pool

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

WARREN, Fri.--A man and a youth were injured within an hour today when they dived into a shallow pool in the…

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Fatal Accident in Misty Rain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Thick misty rain which fell in Melbourne early today caused a number of accidents, one involving the death of an unidentified man…

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Fatal Accident in Misty Rain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Thick misty rain which fell in Melbourne early today caused a number of accidents, one involving the death of an unidentified man…

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5 hurt in car-tram collision

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 28

FIVE were injured when their car and a tram collided at Willoughby last night…

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Motor Car Badly Battered After Willoughby Collision

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 32

The car in which five people were injured, one fatally, at Willoughby last night in a collision with a tram…

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Webb injured, may miss Cup sculls

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 16

Hobertfield scalier Kevin Webb, who won the right to challenge Merv Wood for the Philadelphia Gold Cup, will not row again this season…

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Youth Injured in Fall From Cliff

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 32

A youth was seriously injured when he fell 30ft down the cliff face between Harbord and Queenscliff yesterday…

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Accidents on ocean race Yacht races to land a scalded man HOBART

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 2

WHILE taking part in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race, a Wollstonecraft man suffered severe scalding when a pot of boiling tea fell on him…

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Randwick smash accidental

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 11

Shortly after turning into the straight, Critique fell in the High weight Handicap at Randwick…

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Boy. 4. Drowned

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

MOSS VALE, Monday.--Richard Keith Hoskins, 4, was drowned in the swimming pool on the estate of his…

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Accident Toll Two Die In Smashes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 3

Two people were killed and eight others injured in week-end accidents in Sydney…

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Accidental Shooting at New Year Revel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 9

A youth accidentally shot an elderly man in the groin during New Year's Eye celebrations at a dance hall at Wilton, near Picton,…

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8 Injured In Tram Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 3

Eight persons were slightly injured and several others severely shaken, when two double sets of…

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8 Injured En Tram Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 10

Eight persons were slightly injured and several others severely shaken, when two double sets of…

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8 Injured In Tram Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

Eight persons were slightly injured and several others severely shaken, when two double sets of…

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