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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Still Searching Redhead Surf Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 7

As day after day passes without any sign of the victim of Sunday's surf tragedy at Redhead, hope of eventually, recovering the body is gradually…

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Official Report Seymour Railway Accident Driver Severely Injured Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 4

The official report of the Railway Commissioners upon the Seymour railway accident states that very little damage was done to the engine of the express or to…

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Child Fatally Injured Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 7

Stepping backwards on a jetty, without a railing, at Normanville, George Hough, 6, fell to the hard sand, 18ft below. He received injuries which caused his death…

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Prompt Boys Hunter Drowning Recovered Body Tried to Restore Life

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 7

"This is just another instance of the danger of children bathing in deep parts which are not properly…

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Yesterday's Accidents Car Fells Miner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 6

Robert Brown, 55, of 96 Macquarie-street, Junction, a miner employed at Dudley Colliery, was knocked down by a motor ear in Hunter-street West…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 7

Axe Slipped.--Leslie Moore, aged 28. living at Farley, and employed at West Greta colliery, suffered severe lacerations to the left hand when an…

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Miner Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 10

Les Moore, a miner, living at Farley, fell on an axe while erecting timber at West Greta Colliery yesterday, and sustained a lacerated wound to the left hand,…

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Fatality at Sea Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 10

As the result of a fall down a passage and companion way on the steamer Katoomba last night, Percy Scott, 43, electrical engineer, fractured his skull and died…

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Sydney Accidents Child Killed by Train Two Men Seriously Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 11

Mavis Baker, aged 7, of Waterview-street, Como, was struck by a train while walking over a level crossing at Como station this afternoon. She died while…

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Killed by Lorry Fatality at Newtown Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 11

Mrs. Mary Bolger, aged 74, of Dixon-street, Newtown, was fatally injured when she was knocked down by a motor lorry in King-street. Newtown, to-day…

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'Planes Crash Ten Believed to be Dead Collision Over Sea (Australian Press Association.) Santa Monica (Cal.), January 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 9

Two commercial cabin airplanes, each believed to be carrying five persons, collided three miles off the shore, and plunged into the sea. It is considered probable…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

Thrown from Horse.--When he was thrown from a horse to-day, Robert Truland. 35. a fettler living at Argenton, had his right wrist and knee…

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Three Injured Collision at Ryde. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 7

Three persons were admitted to Balmain Hospital as the result of a collision between two cars late to-night at the corner of the Great Northern road…

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Swimmers' Plight Escape From Drowning Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 7

Douglas Clayton, 16, of Waverley, narrowly escaped drowning when swimming in Tamarama Bay to-day. The surf was particularly rough, and Clayton, who had…

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Cyclists Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

Thomas Gore, aged 43, of Willonghby, and Harold Gore, aged 32, of Chatswood each received a broken left leg when the motor cycle and sidecar in which they…

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Youth Fatally Injured Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

Cyril Atkinson, 22, of Loxton, was fatally injured at Uraidla last night, when he slipped beneath the wheels of a heavily-laden waggon by the side of which he…

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Trams Collide Several Persons Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 7

Several people were injured, but only one seriously; when a tram crashed into the back of another one on the line running along the Great Western-road at…

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Grim Haul Dragging for Body Trousers Found Newcastle Harbor Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 6

The finding of a pair of trousers turn to shreds, brought from the bottom of Newcastle ' Harbor, has…

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Surf Accidents Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 6

On account of the heavy nature of the surf, accidents on Sydney's beaches were frequent to-day, While surfing at South Steyne, Manly…

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Motor Accidents Newcastle List Car Breaks Window

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

One of the two motor ears involved in a collision at the corner of Glebe and Brunker roads, Adamstown, yesterday afternoon, was knocked across the…

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