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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Accidents

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 12

Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following since last issue:— Henry Jones, of Thirroul, received…

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Accidents

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 2

While working at the Gerringong Main Roads Board camp on Friday last, Mr. Cecil Honey, of Port Kembla, had a narrow escape from very serious…

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Motor Collision Claim

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 9

James Pederson v A. E. Smith. This was a claim for £46 arising out of a motor collision. Mr. Hungerford (instructed by Mr…

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Collision at Fort Kembla

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

Frank H. Bode pleaded not guilty to a charge of negligent driving at Port Kembla, on December 24. Mr. F. Wiseman appeared for the…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 6
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients were conveyed to…

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Late Mrs. Pearson Accidental Death

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 19

On Saturday at Wollongong Courthouse, the District Coroner, Mr. A. G. Hardwick conducted an inquest into the death of Mrs. Matilda…

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Figtree Fatality

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 2

At Wollongong Courthouse on Saturday, an inquest was held concerniny the triple motor car fatality at Figtree on March 26th, when…

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Injured Footballers

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 4

Claude Kay, playing with Albion Park, at Wollongong, on Sunday, received a fractured right leg, and was removed by ambulance to the local…

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Coroner's Court Wollongong — Saturday Killed by Train Finding of Accidental Death

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 12

The District Coroner (Mr. Hardwick, S.M.) on Saturday, at Wollongong Court House, conducted an inquest concerning the death of Daniel…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 6
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients were conveyed to…

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Accidental Death Late Daniel McARTHUR

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 3

The death of Daniel McArthur, who was cut to pieces by a train at Uort Kembla on the evening of March 22, was the subject of an inquest by the…

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Footballer Injured

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 8

Mr. J. Anderson, son of Mr. J. Anderson, Jamberoo Road, Albion Park, was seriously injured while working at the Steelworks, Port Kembla, on…

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Man Injured Fall of Bricks

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 14

When a stack of Bricks collapsed and fell on him at the Steelworks about 2 o'clock this morning Norman Sharp, of New Dapto Road,…

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Three Men Killed Car Fatality at Figtree Adjourned Inquest

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 3

The adjourned inquest into the death of Arthur Francis Woollard, Reginald Brodie and Arthur McEwan Sheriffe, who were killed as the result of a…

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Accident

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 7

Wally Speed, the carter for the Illawarra Butchering Co. on the Scarborough run, was injured when his horse fell coming down the steep hill…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 7
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended to the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients were removed to…

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Three Men Killed "Accidental" Says Coroner

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 4

At Wollongong Courthouse last Saturday the inquest concerning the deaths of three men at Figtree on March 26th, was concluded…

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