Tragic Drowning at Lawson Sad Fatality Young Man Loses His Life in Mountain Swimming Pool
James Young, aged 17, one of a group of young people spending a holiday on the Mountains, from Ashfield,…
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Four Injured in Motor Accident
A motor cycle which had broken down on the Great Western Highway at 10.15 p.m. on New Year's Eve; and a motorist who had…
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At 3.15 a.m. on New Year's Day 'the ambulance officers were called to the scene of an accident at Went worth Falls, when three cars were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Officer E. H. Parkes Injured Ex-katoomba Fire Chief
The news of a big Pitt Street Are on Saturday night brought with it the realisation of the heroism and self-sacrificing actions of the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Holiday Accidents Dislocated Elbow
Mr. Barry Batt, 21, living at 105 Nelson's Bay Road, Bronte, and holidaying at "Ye Olde [?]," attempted to jump over a tennis…
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The Ambulance treated seven other minor accidents: a sprained wrist, two sprained legs, cuts and bruises. One of the accidents…
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Now here's another story. While the ambulance officers were busy, someone took a chair and a blanket belonging to the Ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidental Deaths Coroner's Findings Lawson Pool Fatality
The District Coroner (Mr. H. J. Caton) conducted two enquiries at Katoomba Court on Monday. A finding of accidental death was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Captain Sheekeys Luck a Chapter of Accidents
Captain Sheekey, in charge of Katoomba Fire Brigade, tells the story of how he and two others figured in a Tattersall's Lottery…
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In the full view of over 300 people, including his sister, William James Younghusband, known as James Young (18), of 67 Ormonde Street,…
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Sir,--In view of the fact that the first fatal accident in the swimming pools of the Mountains has taken place, let us, as men, do…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Collision Coroner's Finding
Accidental death was the verdict recorded by the District Cironer, Mr. H. J. Caton, at the enquiry into the death of Francis Shelley, 37, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents Three Injured New Year's Eve Accident
Three persons were injured in a collision between two cars at Bullaburra on New Tear's Eve. They were: Thomas Cureton, 21, of Botany…
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Struck by a motor car as he was crossing the road at Lawson on Monday, Eric Ross, 50, of "Studleigh Royal," Station Street, Lawson, was…
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A young girl aged 15, named Joyce Owens and residing at Belah Flats, The Crescent, Manly, suddenly became giddy while enjoying…
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On Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Brown, aged 81, mother of Mr. Dave Brown, tripped and fell in the passageway of her home. After…
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Stopping his car near Leura, on the Great Western Road, about 8 o'clock on Sunday night, Mr. Michael John McDonnell, a grazier…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cars in Head-on Collision Ten People Escape Injury
On Friday night, two cars were involved in a head-on collision near the Marked Tree. Ten people had remarkable escapes from injury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lawson Drowning Fatality B.m. Shire Council's Action
Regarding the drowning fatality at Law son, the Shire Clerk reported as follows: "On Saturday, January 2, 1937,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents Fell Between Train and Platform
As the 7.55 train was about to leave Katoomba Station on Sunday a middle-aged lady, Mrs. Ellen Annie Collins, of 24 Ruthven…
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