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Accidents, 1935

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Inquiries Into District Tragedies Mr Hannaford's Death "Accident" is Finding

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1935 · page 11

An inquiry into the sad death on January 2, of George Herbert Hannaford, 38, of Gosford, as a result of a motor accident at East Gosford, on…

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Drowned in Hawkesbury Woy Woy 'Resident Eye Witness

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 6

Believed to have been seized with a heart attack, Frederick Clarke, 47, of Victoria Street, Lewisham, was drowned on Sunday in the Hawesbury…

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Sawmill Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 16

Mr. Jack Brownlee, son., of Ourimbah, suffered a painful in jury on Friday when his left hand was caught in a planing machine at his brother's…

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Narrow Escape Buscombe Car Accident Party of Fire Uninjured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 8

While Mr. F. J. Buscombe was driving his sedan car to Terrigal yesterday at 3.30 p.m., in rain and on a greasy road, it swerved, skidded, and…

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Accident on Bridge

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 8

Cars driven by Dr. J. H. Coles, of Goulburn, on his way to Sydney, and Mr. James Mead, of 4[?] Wardell Road, Marrickville, came into collision at 10…

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Collision at Kanwal Two Persons Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 1

Two cars met in head-on collision at Kanwal, near Wyong, on Monday. One car and its occupants escaped injury, but the other, driven by Mr. Billen, of…

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Holiday Accidents Knocked Down by Car

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 1

Arthur H. Martin, of 194 Military Road, Mosman, was struck in Donnison Street on Monday afternoon by a car coming from Mann Street, and…

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Accident in Bush

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1935 · page 16

While working in the bush at Ourimbah on Tuesday, assisting his father, who was engaged in cutting sleepers, Roy, the 16-years-old son of Mr. and…

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Orange Grove Drowning

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 3

The body of Donald Percival Rocs, aged 28, of Alpha Road, Woy Woy, was found floating in the water at Orange Grove, near Woy Woy, on…

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Collision Case By Overhead Bridge Magistrate Fines Driver

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 2

On Sunday, January 20, an accident occurred between two cars, a tourer and a sedan, on the western side of the overhead railway bridge in Donnison…

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Accident Proves Fatal Death of Mr. Butterworth

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 1

Despite the services of a Sydney specialist, Mr. J. H. Butterworth, orchardist, of Chittaway Road, Ourimbah, died last Friday afternoon as the…

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Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 3

While chopping wood on Wednesday, February 6, Arthur Thompson, of Patonga St., gashed his foot with an axe. His mother was gathering chips when…

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District Accidents Motor Cycle Over Bank Car Capsizes in Bush

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 14

Riding to Sydney on Saturday at 3 p.m., on o motor cycle with side car attached, J. J. Stevenson, 50, of 107 Peat's Ferry Road, Horusby, failed to…

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Accidents Gosford Resident Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1935 · page 1

While assisting in loading a motor cycle into a truck at the Gosford railway goods yard on Friday, Mr. Sam Hodson, a well-known Grosford…

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Accidental Death Mr. Butterworth's Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1935 · page 3

A verdict of death from injuries accidentally received as a result of a fall from a bicycle at Ourimbah on January 31, was returned at the…

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Head-on Collision

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1935 · page 6

Twenty miles on the Sydney side of Gosford, on Monday afternoon, cars driven by Messrs George Fealy, of Oaklands, and W. H. Weiss, of…

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Motor Accidents Car Falls 35 FEET

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1935 · page 6

Mr. E. J. Bradham, of Carlingford, organising representative of Aladdin Industries, Ltd., on his way to Tamworth, on Monday afternoon, was…

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Helped by Ambulance Injured While Playing

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 7 March 1935 · page 8

On Saturday afternoon, Mervyn Sharpe, of Matcham, playing with other children at his parents' home, was being pulled along in an old tin…

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Motor Cycle Accident Two People Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 15

Mr. J. Angus, of 41 Mimosa Street, Bexley, while riding a motor cycle towards Newcastle on Monday morning, and passing along near Kirkness's…

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Car Overturns Passenger Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 15

While Mrs. W. Goodsir, of Narara Gates railway crossing, was driving a motor car along Punt Road, Erina Ck., she got too close to the edge of the…

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