Surfing Tragedy at Bondi Pour Drowned 35 Persons Treated 200 Surfers Carried Out Heroic Work by Lifesavers Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 5
In the worst surf tragedy oh record, four persons were drowned and 25 were treated for shock and immersion when 200 bathers were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fingers Severed Accident at Uki. Murwillumbah
Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 4
Jack Whitby, of Uki, had portions of four fingers of his right hand severed when operating a power-driven mincing machine at Uki…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traffic Accidents 311 Deaths in Melbourne Last Year
Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 6
Despite the introduction of a new traffic code to minimise traffic accidents, 311 persons died in Melbourne last year from injuries received in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kicked in Face Boy Injured Whilst Chasing Horse
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 4
Frank Eric Shephard (14), son of Mr. and Mrs. G. .H. Shephard, of Nana Glen, suffered a lacerated arid contused wound to the face when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unusual Accident
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 3
Mr. Oliver Hunter, of The Pocket, Billinudgel, was injured in an unusual manner while crossing a paddock on a horse slide loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Double Fatality. Auckland
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 5
The rider of a motor cycle which knocked down and killed a woman in Auckland to-day was hurled from the machine under an approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Injured
Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4
Michael Croke, a farmer, of Wood-view, Tenterfield road, near Casino, received a severe injury to the lower part of the abdomen when a plough handle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Drowned in Fishery Creek
Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4
Peter Wilson Watson, 6, son of Mr. C. L. Watson, of Dagworth, was drowned in Fishery Creek, near West Maitland on Sunday afternoon. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COLLISION On Jetty Road
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 2
A big motor lorry laden wi[?] and a motor car collided [?] Road last night. Damage w[?] to the car, and delay occu[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured in Sailing Boat
Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 4
While making ready his sailing boat, Mystery III., at the Jerseyville Regatta on Saturday week last, the veteran, Mr. Harry Croad, met with a mishap,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hit-run Driver Man Injured at Bundaberg
Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 9
Suffering from extensive injuries to the head and face, Roy Fuller (21), a visitor to Bundaberg from Ingham, was admitted to the Bundaberg General…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Woman Drowned No Alarm Given "Incredible Conduct." Sydney
Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 5
That he had made no attempt to save a woman who had fallen into the Harbor, although she was only four feet away from him, because he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traffic Education As Preventive of Accidents Police Commissioner's Plan Sydney
Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 4
Novel means of impressing upon people the necessity of obeying the traffic regulations in their entirety are to be employed by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COLLISION Lorry And Motor Cycle Side-car Passenger Injured. Maclean
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4
A collision between a motor cycle, ridden by Mr. R. Austin, of Maclean, and a motor lorry, driven by Mr. Sutherland, of Tullymorgan, took…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured by Knife
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4
Miss Doreen Henderson of Little Prince street, Grafton, suffered injuries to the left hand, when the knife she was using at her home slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Capsized Four Persons Injured Accident Near Tabulam. Lismore
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4
When a car failed to take a bend one mile from Tabulam this morning and capsized, four persons were injured. They were the driver, George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision Sequel Motorist Sent to Gaol. Perth
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4
A sequel to a fatal head-on collision between a motor cycle and a motor car, at Welshpool, near Perth, on November 22, was the sentencing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Killed Two Seriously Injured Motor Truck Overturns. Wagga
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 6
Herbert Jones, 22, was killed, and Reginald Jones, 20, and William Clark were seriously injured when a motor truck overturned on the Hume highway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Diver Injured Hit Submerged Log Whilst Swimming at McPHERSON'S CROSSING
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4
When he struck a submerged log, whilst swimming at McPherson's Crossing, yesterday morning, Ralph Arthur White (17), of 148 Bacon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tweed Heads Man Injured
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 4
Victim of an alleged assault outside a dance hall at Burleigh Heads on Friday night, Harold Caden, 28, married, of Tweed Heads, was transported to a…
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