Miners Worked Courageously to Rescue Entombed Workmate. Tragic Hebburn No. 1 FATALITY
No story of the tragic mining fatality at the Hebburn No. 1 Colliery on Friday afternoon would be complete without some…
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Cycling Accident
George Bill, 14, of Belmore-street, Adamstown, fractured his left forearm, and sustained abrasions to the face when he fell from a bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident. On Pacific Highway. Ernest Blanch Killed
Death occurred in Newcastle Hospital on Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m., of Ernest Blanch, aged 39, a carpenter, of Stratford. He was riding a…
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A magisterial inquiry into the death of Raymond Fagon, orchardist, of Lisarow, as a result of a shooting accident at Wallis Lake on Monday,…
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A smashed racing cycle was an exhibit at the Magisterial Inquiry conducted at the West Maitland Courthouse this afternoon by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attack by Angry Coolies English Colliery Manager Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Calcutta
A mob of 900' coolies, incensed over a wage reduction, attacked the offices of the English Indian Railway collieries, at Geradih, in Behch Province…
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Seeking a way to reduce motor accidents, the chief of police of Phoenix in Arizona (U.S.A.), has put an original plan into effect. Each time a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEGLIGENCE Motorist Charged Accident Sequel Newcastle
Resulting from an accident in which a man was injured, Frank Marr, 87, painter, was charged in the Police Court to-day that, on May 5, he drove…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Shooting Accident Lisarow Orchardist Dies
Accidentally shot in the left arm while leaving a motor-launch near Wallis lsland, in the Wallamba River on Monday, Roy Fagan, aged 45,…
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A most lamentable and much regretted motor accident happened on the Stroud road, near Limeburners Creek, on Saturday when a motor bike and side car collided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ghastly Wound. Shooting Fatality. Was on Holidays
Ray Fagan, 32 years of age, an orchardist, of Lisarow, who arrived with his wife and two children on Sunday night, to spend holiday at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FELL 60 FEET Down Mountain Side Badly Injured Hobart
Edward Giblin, 24, son of Dr. F. Giblin, had a miraculous escape from death when he fell 60ft down a mountain side. He lodged between a…
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Mr. Clarke, a sleeper-cutter at the Water Holes, had the misfortune to slip and his broad axe came down and severed the little finger of his left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MIRACLE and ACCIDENT. Combine to Beat High Degree. Jimmy Munro's Great Form
For years I've told people "I've had one certainty in my life—and that got beaten." That paradox came to light at Randwick on Saturday. So air tight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SINGLETON District Court Car Collision Singleton
A collision between two motor cars near a hilly part of Jerry's Plains-road on 14th March, 1933, formed the basis of a cross…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Injured Knocked Down By 'Bus
Three children—Joan Laws, 7; Betty Laws, 3; and Donald Laws, 5—alighted from the Dapto bus at Unanderra, and ran in front of it. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jagged Glass Would-be Thief Injured Lost Finger-tip Sydney
A would-be thief, who attempted to enter the Tyre Repair store of Charles McIntosh and Co., at Redfern early this morning, left the tip of one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smash in Fog Motorist Injured in a Bad Way Penrith
While motoring from Brisbane to Sydney Clyde Manning Keanghran, of Western Australia, was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bad Signalling Cause of Accidents
The indifferent manner in which many motorists give their signals was strongly commented upon by Dr. Antill Pockley at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road Accidents
The returns of road accidents is Great Britain for 1933 show that there were increases of 535 in the number of persons killed and 9,878 is…
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