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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

1,627 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 82

Motorist to Rescue Double Drowning Averted SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 7

A double drowning in Narrabeen Lakes was prevented to-day by the quick action of a motorist, who, hearing cries for help as he was passing along the road,…

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Asleep While Shop Ablaze Fatality Averted by Smart Work Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 3

But for the swift action of firemen in subduing an outbreak in a grocer's shop in Glebe Point-road carly this morning, eight people sleeping on…

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Gravely Injured Child Knocked Down by Car SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 8

Serious injuries were received by Ronald Salter, 6, of Alice-street. Lakemba, when he was knocked down by a motor car while crossing the road not far from…

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 9

In a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle at the intersection of Hunter-street and Wheeler-place, Newcastle, last night, a clipper employed at…

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Cessnock Three Injured Cars Collide Near Neath

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 7

Two cars collided at the turn near Neath railway crossing late on Saturday afternoon. Arnold Burns, 20, of North-avenue, Cessnock, was admitted to…

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Knocked Down by Bicycle Child Badly Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 5

Knocked down by a bicycle at Toronto this morning, Norman Hampson, aged four years and a half, was taken to Wallsend Hospital in a serious…

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Pilot Injured Struck by 'Plane's Propeller MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 6

While swinging the propeller of an aeroplane at the Essendon Aerodrome yesterday afternoon, Gilbert Matthew Stevenson, 35, an air pilot, was struck…

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Two Killed Motor Cycle Hits Post Child Badly Injured Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 5

A young man and a girl were killed, and a second girl was critically injured, when a motor cycle crashed into a post on the Williamstown road, near Williamstown…

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 6

Struck by a surf board while bathing at Newcastle Beach yesterday, George Musgrove, 30, care of the Oxford Hotel, sustained a lacerated wound over the right…

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Child Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 7

Knocked down by a bicycle at Toronto yesterday, Norman Hanson. 4. of Victory parade, Toronto, had his skull fractured. After medical treatment, he was…

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Nearly Drowned Boy's Escape at Singleton SINGLETON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 7

Len, Hannam, 8, of Sydney, who is spending his holidays at Singleton, had a narrow escape in the municipal swimming baths yesterday afternoon. The boy got…

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Father of Boxer Mr. John Haines Drowned GRIFFITH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

Mr. John Haines, 50, father of the former middleweight boxing champion of Australia, Jack Haines, was drowned to-night…

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Youth Injured Struck Rock in Creek Long Drive to Township Inverell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

A shocking accident befell Leslie Feuton, 16, a son of Mr. E. J. Fenton, of Summer Hill, a locality four miles from the junction of the Limestone and…

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Girl Nearly Drowned in Shallow Water Saved by the Efforts of Ambulance Men Speer's Point Park

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 6

Ambulance men worked for 20 minutes on the body of a girl, who was taken from the inter apparently drowned at Speer's Point…

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Prison Mutiny Many Injured in Dartmoor Outbreak Fierce Battle with Police Convicts Make Bonfire of Prison Records (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, January 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 5

Eighty-four convicts and five warders were injured as a result of a violent mutiny in Dartmoor Prison. Princetown, following a fortnight's unrest. It is believed that none was killed. Twenty are in…

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Clergyman Drowned Port Adelaide Tragedy Others Narrowly Escape Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 4

Rev. H. S. Joyce, 56. of Port Adelaide, and President of the Congregational Union, was drowned at Middleton Beach, near Victor Harbour, to-day…

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Seriously Injured Struck by Car at Tenterfield TENTERFIELD

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 5

Phillip Ross, 67, was admitted to the Tenterfield Hospital yesterday in a serous condition. suffering from injuries sustained when he was knocked down by a…

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Maitland Speedway Provides Thrills Pat Hamilton Injured Won Open Handicap

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 2

There were plenty of thrills at the Maitland Speedway night, many riders having spills, but luckily escaping injury, with the…

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Dashed Over Bank Four Newcastle People Injured Sydney Road Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 1

When a motor car nur[?]ed over, a steep embankment near Cowan Creek to-day four Newcastle people were injured…

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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 4

While bathing at Speers' Point yesterday, Miss J. Coles, 20, B ant street, Tighe's Hill, had an unenviable experience Swimming in fairly shallow water,…

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