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Central Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Gosford Street Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 6

Through the horse slipping on the roadway, Mr. Robert Hubbard, of Erina, and his two grandchildren were thrown from the spring-cart in which…

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Coroner's Inquiry Accidental Death of George Thomas Fuller

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 5

The District Coroner (Mr. W. E. Kirkness) conducted an inquiry at Wyong on May 29 into the death of George Thomas Fuller, who was killed at…

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Shocking Railway Fatality Pettier Killed at Pt. Clare

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 6

Shortly before 6 p.m. on Monday last a shocking fatality occurred on the railway line about 80 yards on the Sydney side of Point Clare station…

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Gosford Motor Accident £400 Damages Awarded in District Court Case Breen v. HANLEY

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 9

On the evening of 31st August 1929, when Mr. John Breen, of Gosford, was walking along Mann Street, near the Packing House…

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Cyclist Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 6

Shortly after 4 p.m. on Sunday last a serious accident occurred on the main Sydney road near the Gosford racecourse, when Jeff Humphries, aged…

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Footballers Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 6

Cecil Williams, of Ourimbah, when playing with the Terrigal second grade football team against Tuggerah, on Saturday last, had the misfortune to…

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Car-Motor Cycle Collision Cyclist Get £149 DAMAGES

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 2

In the District Court, Gosford, on July 7, before His Honor Judge Sheridan, and a jury, Sydney Armstrong. Butwall, laborer, of. Goaford, was…

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First Aid to the Injured What to Do Whilst Waiting for the Doctor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 14

This is the first of a series of articles dealing with the principles of first-aid to the injured. A knowledge of first-aid may some time be of the greatest…

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Motor Accident on Highway Large Lorry Runs Off Road. Three Men lnjured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 11

A serious motor accident occurred on the Pacific Highway, albout 2 12 miles south from, Gosford, and just beyond Kendall's Rock, about 1.30 on…

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Child Drowned in Well

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 13 August 1931 · page 11

The circumstances surrounding the death of David Keith Prentice, aged 3 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Prentice, of Point Frederick, Gosford,…

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First Aid to the Injured What to Do Whilst Waiting for the Doctor. (Second Article of a Series.) Haemorrhage

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 13 August 1931 · page 12

In the article on wounds, in last week's issue, it was mentioned that there are three kinds of bleeding, viz., arterial, venous and capillary…

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Aged Lady Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1931 · page 9

Shortly after 11 o'clock on Saturday night last, Mrs. C. King, an aged resident [?] misfortune to [?] and sustain [?]…

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First Aid to the Injured What to Do Before the Doctor Comes. Fractures. (Third Article of a Series.)

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1931 · page 8

The surgical definition of a fracture is, of course, a broken bone. Now, fractures are caused in two different way, viz., by violence and by muscular…

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Fatality at Orange

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1931 · page 9

Friday last, while riding his cycle [?]the main street of Orange, Mer[?]Frederiek Boxall, a lad of 17, fell [?]e roadway. The Ambulance was…

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Motor Smash on the Highway MR. & MRS. R. Hill Seriously Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1931 · page 6

Four Gosford residents were injured:--two of them seriously--when a car dived over a steep embankment on the Pacific Highway, three miles on the…

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First Aid to the Injured What to Do Before the Doctor Comes. Bums and Scalds

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1931 · page 3

Burns are caused by dry heat, such as fire or coming into contact with a red hot iron, or by corrosive acids and alkalies…

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Motor Fatality

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 October 1931 · page 3

Betty Anna Orrett, 3½ years, who resides with her parents at Porcher Street, Hamilton, was killed instantly, when she fell from a motor car near…

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Station Master Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 October 1931 · page 10

Mr. W. Tuxford, station master at Woy Woy, while on duty on September 21, slipped and fell heavily on his left wrist. It is thought that a bone has…

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Accident at Sawmill

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 4

Mr. Jack Brownlee, junior, met with a painful accident while working at Brownlee's Sawmill, Ourimbah, last Tuesday morning. He was operating a…

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Accident at Somersby

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 22 October 1931 · page 2

Geoffrey Tabor, aged 24, a timber contractor, residing at Taree, experienced a narrow escape last Friday morning when his lorry crashed over…

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