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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

1,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 86

ACCIDENTS Boy Severely Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 5

Wilfed Cocking, aged 8, of Moolcha-street, Marifield received severe injuries when the bicycle he was riding in Maitland-road, Mayfield, came into collision…

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Horse Rider Fatally Injured Moree

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 5

Falling from a horse 15 miles from Upper Horton, Norman Dorry, 16, struck a sapling and sustained a compound fracture of the leg. He was taken to…

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"Visibility Was Bad" Cyclist Killed in Collision Coroner's Inquiry

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 7

In driving rain, which made visibility very poor, a motor-car came into collision with a cyclist near the…

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Fatally Injured Retired Bank Manager TAREE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 8

Linley Murray Shiels, who was Manager on the Comboyne branch of the E.S.. and A. Bank for 19 years, retiring about two years ago, died this morning as a…

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Boys Electrocuted Accidental Death Verdict Inspections Advised Trangie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 8

The Coroner (Mr. V. E. Frawley) to-day found that Kenneth Joseph Tipping, 13, and Nigel John Tipping, 9, who were electrocuted on the roof of their father's…

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Accidental Death Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 5

A finding of accidental death was returned by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. Clark) to-day regarding Joseph McGarrity, 21, who died as a result of…

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Fell From Tram Conductor Badly Injured Died in Hospital

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

Cecil B. Bailey, a tram conductor, of Cardiff, was frightfully injured about the head when he fell…

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ACCIDENTS Man Severely Burned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 8

Serious burns were received by George Hart, 70, of Parry-street, Cook's Hill, when flames unexpectedly swept from a furnace at the Broken Hill Proprietary…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 7

Cyclist Hurt.—Stanley Pen, 20, of Ninth-street, Adamstown, suffered shock and minor injuries when, the bicycle he was riding came into…

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Caught on Hook Swimmer's Predicament Saved Drowning Man Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 8

Despite the fact that one of his legs was caught in a heavy line and hook, the captain of the Largs Bay Life-saving Club (Mr. F. H. Wisdom) effected a plucky…

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Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 8

E. Scott, 21, a motor mechanic, of Hewison-street, Tighe's Hill, received a large lacerated wound under the left eye when a spanner he was using slipped at a…

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Died From Burns Accident at Steel Works

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 8

The death occurred in the Newcastle General Hospital yesterday of George Walter Hart, 70[?] a storeman, who was badly burned on Wednesday when flames blew…

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Motor-cyclist's Death Accidental Death Verdict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the City Coroner (Mr. W. Pickett), yesterday, after he had heard the evidence at an inquest concerning the…

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Accident to Miner

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 9

William Lomas, 29, miner, residing in Boomerang-street, Cessnock, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital with scalp wounds, a lacerated ear, and shock, as a result…

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Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 9

James Wilkie, 24, of Tomalpin-street, Kearsley, employed as an electric motordriver at Elrington colliery, was admitted to hospital yesterday with slight injuries…

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Ordeal in Mine Manager Was Injured Crawled to Safety

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 1

Remarkable fortitude was displayed by Mr. Johnstone, manager of the Richmond Main Colliery, when…

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Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 6

Colin Parry, aged six, of Speers Point, was knocked down by a motor-car at Speers Point yesterday afternoon, and sustained a compound fracture of the left…

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Kurri Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 9

The Coroner (Mr. A. Johns) held an inquest at the Courthouse, Kurri Kurri, yesterday morning, into the circumstances of the death of the infant daughter of…

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Accidents Two Injured in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 February 1933 · page 6

Mrs. F. Shepherd, 25 Russell-road, New Lambton, and Jack Shepherd, 6, of the same address, were injured in a collision, at the corner of Parry and Tudor Streets,…

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Road Accidents Toy Car in Collision Child Fatally Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 February 1933 · page 7

When a toy motor-car in which he was riding close to his home yesterday suddenly swerved and collided with a motor-car, Frank Amphlett, 5, of Stuart-street…

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