Two Police Injured End to Thrilling Chase Car Strikes Kerbing Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 5
Sergeant Cullen and Constable Dawson, of the police night patrol, were injured last night, while chasing a man who was riding a motor cycle, alleged to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Race Riots in Rangoon Two' Killed and 14 Injured Started on 'Buses Calcutta
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 7
Two men were killed and 14 injured in a serious riot between Chinese and Burmese in Rangoon. The trouble originated in a quarrel…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 6
Annie Scotman, 6, of 40 Garret-street, Charlestown, fell while climbing a gate yesterday. Newcastle Ambulance took her from 30 Dowine-street, Smedmore, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District West Maitland Street Collision Motor Cyclist Injured
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7
A peculiar street collision in High-street, West Maitland, yesterday afternoon, resulted in Kenneth Mullard, of East Maitland, being admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tuncurry Drowning Third Victim Found
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 6
The body of Geoffrey Bull, known as Prior, the third victim of last Friday's drowning tragedy at Tuncurry, was recovered this morning close to…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7
While riding his motor cycle along High-street, West Maitland, on Sunday, Frank Morley was thrown heavily and received painful abrasions about the face. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hebburn Collision Two Employees Dismissed
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 4
An investigation into the circumstances of the collision between two, trains in Hebburn No. 1 colliery yard, on Christmas Eve, has resulted in the driver land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Drowned Sister's Narrow Escape WAGGA
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 3
Desmond Lavis, aged 8, was drowned, and his sister, Nancy Lavis, aged 10, probably would have lost her life but for assistance which was rendered her by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Safety First Coroner is Scathing Railway Fatality Sydney
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 6
The Paramatta district coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) scathingly commented on evidence given by railway witnesses to-day at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maniac's Attack Man Injured at Warwick BRISBANE
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5
Armed with a huge stick, an elderly Brazilian, John Brown, ran amok at Warwick early this morning. He crept to a camp occupied by three sleeping men. Tom…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lorry Accident
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7
A motor lorry, driven by Mr. Burton Flick of Congewai, Cessnock, capsized on the hill, near East Greta, yesterday, and throw Mrs. A. Grills, of Abermain, and…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7
Ronald Bock, 13 years, of Hamilton, who was riding a bicycle, collided with a lorry at, the intersection of Edward and Vincent Streets, Cessnock, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents Fingers Crushed
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 6
A painful injury to the left hand was suffered yesterday by Albert Thornton, a young man, of Devon-street, Wallsend, when he was engaged in road formation…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 4
Ernest Kincher, a railway employee, opened a gate at a level crossing near Parkes Railway Station, and stood aside to allow a train to pass, He failed to…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7
"Accidental death—with no blame attachable to anyone"—was the verdict of Mr. J. R. Scott, coalfields deputy coroner, after hearing…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5
When he struck his head which diving at Nelson's Bay, John Shepherd, aged 58, a grazier, of Jerry's Plains, Singleton, suffered a probable fracture…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 7
Gordon Stewart, 9, of Rawson-street, Aberdare, fell from a see-saw yesterday. He was admitted to hospital, suffering from a fractured left arm, near…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Electric Iron Fatality Auckland
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4
Phyllis Finlayson, 22, was fatally burned as a result of an explosion of benzine when switching on an electric iron. The girl's clothes were completely burned. She…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 4
John Carvil, a former, of O'Connell, near Bathurst, received severe lacerations to the chest, arms, and legs when the horse he was driving in a sulky bolted…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 6
Patrick McGrath, 64, of Waterloo, was fatally injured when he was run over in Botany-road, Waterloo, this afternoon, by a motor lorry, carrying 4½ tons of iron…
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