HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS
SYDNEY’S LIST.
FOR EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
INCLUDES TWO FATALITIES.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT^
Received Oct. 6, 11.40 n.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 6. The usual crop of holiday accidents occurred on Eight-Hour Dayat Penrith. A speedway competitor in a motor-cycle race fell heavily from his machine and died later. A competitor in another race fell from his machine. A spectator who- rushed to his assistance was rushed down by the following cyclist and was severely injured. Three motor-cars collided when rounding a bend, the occupants of which received minor injuries. Two men were sent to hospital and two others were treated as a result of a collision between taxicabs in George Street.
Four other men were injured; as the result of motor accidents at Palm Beach.
A boy fell over a hundred-foot cliff ;|nd was killed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 October 1925, Page 5
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