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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

2,263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 114

Saved Dog's Life Constable Used Approved Means Half Drowned Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 7

Arresting wrongdoers and playing nursemaid to lost children are all in the day's work for a policeman, out Constable Rea, of…

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Car Hit Tram Tasmanian Premier Injured Secretary Also Hurt Hobart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 7

The Premier (Mr. A. G. Ogilvie) received severe facial injuries, his nose being practically torn away, and his Private Secretary (Mr. H. G. Smith) suffered a…

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Road Accidents Sydney's Week-end Toll One Dead: Five Hurt Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 7

A boy was killed and five persons injured in road accidents in Sydney suburbs at the week-end. John Edward Sidney Whear, 13, of…

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Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 6

Charles James, 15, of Morgan-street, Islington, was admitted to Newcastle Hospital yesterday with facial injuries and concussion, following a collision between…

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Death Follows Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 6

Knocked down by a car in Maitland-road. Islington, on New Year's Eve, Garnet Salter, 56, of Jellicoe-street, New Lambton, died in Newcastle Hospital at…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 7

Fingers Crushed: R. Coleman, aged 29, a wheeler at Stockton Borchole Colliery had two fingers of his right, hand crushed when they were caught…

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Accident Risk in Building Trades Continental Figures

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 2

In Prance, it has been estimated that In the building industry, of 1000 full-time workers there were on the average 0.81 fatal accidents; eight…

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What People Think Selection Of Team To Play Mars — Accidents On The Road Mars and Mailey

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 6

While thoroughly agreeing with Arthur Malley's selection of a World XI., I would like to point out that James Jeans gave authoritative…

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Sequel to Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 10

A claim for damages and a counterclaim arising out of a collision between two cars at Stockton on October 4 were heard in Newcastle Small…

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Drowned by Flood Waters Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Receding floodwaters near Holbrook revealed the body of Frederick Smith, a 22-year-old laborer, wedged under a huge log near Hillside Station…

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Car Hits Taxi Collision in Bolton-street

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 6

Two motor-cars were damaged in a collision in Bolton-street about 1 o'clock this morning, but no one was hurt. A car driven by Mr. F. L. Krempin, of…

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Youth Injured Skidded in Front of Car

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 6

Arthur Ramplin, 17, of Norfolk-avenue, Islington, was injured late yesterday afternoon in remarkable circumstances. He was riding a bicycle along…

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Injured Premier Business at Bedside HOBART

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 8

With his nose a mass of stitches and his face showing severe lacerations, which he had received in a motor accident over the week-end, the Premier (Mr. A. G…

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Sequel to Collision Lorry Driver for Trial Manslaughter Charge Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 9

Reginald Jack Briggs, lorry driver, of Marrickville, was to-day committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. E. T. Oram) on a charge of manslaughter,…

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Terrible Agony Injured Motor-cyclist Companion Killed Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

With his companion dead beside him, and himself badly injured, Patrick Roberts. 21, of Clacline lay in terrible agony for nearly four hours to-day in…

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For the Motorist Road Accidents Analysis of Causes Driving Offences Educating the Pedestrian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 10

According to figures supplied by the Department of road transport, 319 persons were killed and 5508 injured in 7281 road accidents during 1934. As regards the…

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Accidents in Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 6

Dangerous though the occupation of a coalminer is it is not as dangerous as that of a railway shunter or of a platelayer, for instance, if by coalminer we…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Bitten by Dog.—Alfred Woods, aped 52. an employee of the Hunter District Water Board, living at Dawson-street. Cook's Hill, had three…

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What People Think The Moon And The Sun—'Plane Accident Findings—Taxi Fares Moon and Sun

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 6

"Astron" explains:—Some days ago a correspondent told how, when he was at school, he was taught that the moon…

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Collision at Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 2

Sequel to a collision between two cars at the intersection of Hereford and Donglas Streets, Stockton, on October 4 was a claim for £42 damages by George J…

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