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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Accidents

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 9

The Illawarra Ambulance has attended the following since last issue: Miss Maude Mills, of Lidcombe, received lac. wound to forehead when…

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Distressing Accident

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 2

Sincere sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. J. McAuliffe. of Devonshire Street, Kiama, in their anxiety regarding their infant daughter, Margaret, aged six,…

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Railway Fatality Killed at Helensburgh

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 3

On Friday morning last a man named Pierce Williams, 71 years of age, unmarried, and an old-age pensioner, left his but near the railway…

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Colliery Fatality. Miner Killed at Coalcliff

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 7

At about 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday a fatal accident occurred in Section No. 4 North of the Coalcliff Colliery. It is stated that a fall of stone from…

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Fatality at Steelworks. Man Falls Into Molten Metal

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 1

It came as a great shock to the community on Sunday, when it become known that Mr. Harry McGregor Barham, of 7 Harbour St…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 7

The following accidents have been attended to by the Illawarra District Ambulance since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated the patients…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 3

The following accidents have been dealt with by the Illawarra District Ambulance since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 3
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The following accidents have been attended to since our last issue, by the Illawarra District Ambulance. Unless otherwise stated, the patients…

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Bad Roads Mean Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 8

The Secretary of the British Roads Improvement Association has prepared some notes dealing with the relation of road accidents to the lack of…

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District Court Wollongong.—monday. (Before His Honor Judge Neild.) Motor Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 10

Mrs. Annie Duncan proceeded against Kenneth J. Turner claiming£400 damages for Injuries, etc., arising out of a motor accident on Cliff Road…

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Bus Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 10

William Donaldson proceeded against Ethel M. Rowles. for damages as the result of an accident to a bus owned by defendant, in which he was a…

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Wombarra Motor Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 10

Archibald Austin proceeded against A. J. L. Linsdowite claiming £30 damages, as the result of a motor accident. Mr. Duncan appeared for the…

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District Court Wollongong—monday (Before His Honor Judge Neild.) Motor Accident £200 VERDICT

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

Mrs. Annie Duncan proceeded against Kenneth J. Turner, claiming [?]400 damages for injuries, etc, arising out of a motor accident on Cliff…

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Accident at Wombarra

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

Archibald Austin proceeded against A. J. L. Landsdowne, claiming damages in respect to a motor accident, on Oct. 7th, 1933, at…

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Found Drowned

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 17

The body of Mrs. Dora Williams, 55, was recovered from Boat Harbour, Port Kembla, on Monday, by Sergeant Breeze and Constables…

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Accident Roll Grows

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 6

Unless there is a considerable slowing up of the number of road accidents in New South Wales there will be no chance of lowering this year's…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 March 1934 · page 7
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The following accidents have been attended to since last issue. Unless otherwise stated the persona mentioned were convoyed to their homes after…

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Motor Cars Collide Man Severely Injured

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 3

George White, of Bourke Street, Wollongong, sustained severe laceraled scalp wounds, a dislocation of the great toe of teh right foot, a fracture…

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