Tramways Sued Tram and Lorry Collision C.o.r. Claims £60
Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd. claimed £60 damages from the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways, at…
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Accidents, 1936
2,120 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 106
Woman Badly Burned Accident with Match Clothing Caught Fire Sydney, Monday Morning
When they returned to their home in Church-street, Parramatta, shortly before 10 o'clock last night, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Speechley found Mrs. Eleanor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Deaths Motor Accidents in Victoria Van Collides with Car Melbourne
Motors were responsible for three deaths on Saturday afternoon. A van containing a party of bowlers crashed into a telegraph pole after…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock ACCIDENTS
Annette Couste, 17 of Desmond-street, Cessnock fell from her bicycle on Saturday afternoon, and was admitted to hospital with a probable fracture of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Accident Toll in U.s.a
The President of the Reo Sales Corporation (Mr. E. G. Poxon), who arrived in Sydney on the Maunganui, said that 36,000 deaths were reported from motor…
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THUMB LACERATED. - William Hancock (17), of Mandalong-road, Adamstown, had his left thumb cut with a saw at Brown's timber yard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Injured Woollahra Collision SYDNEY
Three persons were injured, one critically, when two motor-cars collided in Edgecliff-road, Woollahra, to-night. Keith Shaw, 30, driver of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowned in Dam Temora
Charles Marshall Wells, 42, disappeared while swimming in a dam yesterday, but his body was not recovered until some hours later. Immediately he disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Smash Motor-cyclist Injured
William Rodder, a steel worker, living in Chalmers-road, Wallsend, suffered a compound fracture of the right thigh when the motor-cycle he was riding home…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broadmeadow Fatality Coroner Finds an Open Verdict
The finding of parts of a man's body on the down main line between Broadmeadow and Adamstown on the night of January 27 was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Body Recovered Young Engineer Drowned MELBOURNE
The police to-night recovered the body of the young man who disappeared after swimming out beyond the diving platform at Middle Park on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Cyclist Fatally Injured SYDNEY
Falling from his bicycle in Prince's Highway, Arncliffe, in front of a following car to-day, Allyn Ward, 8, address unknown, was fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court Collision Between Tram and Lorry Slander Action Settled
Five matters were determined by Judge Nield at the Newcastle District Court yesterday. There was only one defended action; other actions were disposed of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Well-known Doctor in Collision Sent to Hospital Sydney
Dr. Joseph Steigrad, of Macquarie-st. formerly Registrar of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Camperdown, as seriously injured today when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Natives Fight in Fiji Fifteen Injured in Goldfields Brawl Suva
Serious fighting broke out between natives of two provinces employed on the Tavua goldfield on Sunday evening and continued yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Liner Wrecked in South Africa Pilots and Passengers Injured Johannesburg
The imperial Airways liner Artemis hit a plantation when taking off at Pletersburg, and was wrecked. Bath pilots were seriously injured,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fingers Lacerated Three Receive Attention Yesterday's Accidents
Three of the four accidents attended by Newcastle Ambulance yesterday concerned men who had their fingers cut and lacerated while at work. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trolley Derailed Accident Near Ourimbah Ten Men Thrown Off Gosford
Two men were injured and eight others suffered from shock when a Sheffield trolley on which they were travelling to work on the railway line near Ourimbah…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Accidents Defective Lighting Big Factor American Experiments
Defective lighting of highways is held to be responsible for a large percentage of the traffic accidents occurring during night hours on the roads of Great…
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Mr. A. Freeman, 50, of Bridge-street, West Maitland, was slaughtering a beast last night, when his knife slipped and he sustained an incised wound on the left…
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