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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,883 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 95

Chapter of Accidents Trainer's Unlucky Day Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 9

January 4, 1930, will long be remembered by F. J. Marsden, the well-known Randwick trainer. Prior to the start of the second race at…

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Two Women Killed Level Crossing Accident MELBOURNE

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

Two women were killed in a level crossing accident, involving a train and a motor car, between Laverton and South Newport, about 8 o'clock to-night. The motor…

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Peculiar Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 4

Mrs. Ann Warner, 45, of Merrylands, was injured in an unusual manner at Guildford yesterday. Mrs. Warner was driving a sulky along the Woodville road…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

Fall of Stone.—Henry Hughes (52), of 35 Cromwell-street, New Lambton, a miner, had his right leg injured when a fall of stone occurred at New…

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Nearly Drowned Girl Rescued at Wagga WAGGA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

After she had gone under for the third time, Miss L. Collins, who was visiting Wagga, was rescued by Frederick Castles from drowning in the Murrumbidgee River…

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Three Killed Air Force Fatality 'Plane Crashes into Port Phillip Bay Bodies Not Recovered Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Three lives were lost when an Air Force machine crashed into Port Phillip Bay this afternoon. The victims were—…

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Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

William Johns, aged 45, a miner working at Awaba colliery, received injuries to his knee and back by a fall of stone yesterday. Lake Macquarie Ambulance…

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Some Good Resolutions. Better and Safer Motoring. Help to Reduce Accidents in 1930

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 8

The records of accidents for 1929 have not yet been published but, the total, judging by the weekly reports, will be high; too high altogether for any country. Motorists are not always to blame when accidents do happen, but the exercise of a little care…

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Eventful Picnic Chapter of Accidents SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Many thrills were associated with a picnic which a party spent at Casula yesterday. The picnickers, numbering about 20, engaged a motor lorry to take them…

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Intersection Crashes Top Accident Toll in U.S.

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

Failure to concede the right of way, which heads the list of Australian accident causes, apparently takes the biggest toll in America,…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

Steel in Eye.—Cecil Eccles (24). of Cardiff, a mechanic at Cardiff railway workshops, had his eye injured to-day when he was struck by a piece…

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Hobart Drowning Case Hobart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 8

Clement Oakley, 13, while bathing in the River Derwent, got out of his depth and was drowned in the presence of a large crowd of onlookers, none of whom…

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Girl Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 8

Peggy Smith, 14, of 11 Wyong-road, Lambton, sustained large lacerations to the left thigh when she fell on a fence at her home early yesterday afternoon…

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Spring-maker Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 8

H. W. Parkinson, aged 35, a springmaker employed at the Cardiff railway workshops, and living at Lockyer-street. Hamilton, sustained a lacerated wound on…

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Fingers Severed Schoolboy Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 6

Through having his hand too close to the machinery at his father's butchery, Henry-street, Tighe's Hill, to-day, Allan Burgess, a schoolboy, of 15,…

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Two Drowned Children in Water Hole ADELAIDE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 5

While their mother was in hospital with a two-day's baby, Margaret Eberhard, aged 11, and her sister Connie, aged nine, were drowned to-day in a…

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Hit Haystack Airman Fatally Injured MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 7

Chief Flying Officer L. J. Ryan, of the Air Force, who was injured when a Moth aeroplane he was flying crashed near Laverton on Sunday, died in Caulfield…

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"Save Me" Young Woman Drowned Husband Unable to Help Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 7

To hear his wife call out, "Save me, I'm drowning," and to see her sink in a deep hole in the Nymboida River on Christmas Day, and, owing to a recent operation,…

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Bowls Fight Over Bowls Two Players Injured Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

A fight occurred at the Linwood Bowling Club's green on Saturday during the progress of one of the games in the club championship. Following an argument…

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Death Plunge Three Children Drowned Car Dashes Into River Tragic End to Holiday GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 7

Three children and a pet dog were drowned when a motor car dashed over the punt approach at Jerseyville late last eight end plunged into the Macleay…

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