Insurance System Urged for Injured Athletes High Jumper Still Has Treatment Hurt in Sydney Last Year London
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 9
Treated for nearly a year, J. L. Newman, the English high jumper, hag not yet recovered from the leg injury he received…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 9
Further evidence was heard today at Central Police Court in the case in which Percy Weldemier a sergeant of police, was proceeded against on an information…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 9
Thomas Desmond, 65, a horse-breaker of Doyle-street, Bellbird, was jammed against a prop while breaking in horses at Bellbird colliery. He sustained, a…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 9
Norman Brown,15, of Hamilton-street, Kahibah, was riding a bicycle when he collided with a cart at the corner of Melville and Brunker Roads,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To-day's Accidents Baby Trod On Needle
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 7
Ray "kirby. 2, of Main Road, Teraina, trod on a needle which penetrated his right foot at his home to-day. Lake Macquarie ambulance rendered first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Journalist's Death "Accidental" Says Coroner
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 8
Kevin King, 20, a Cessnock Journalist, who was fatally injured when a car overturned between Neath and Cessnock on the night of December…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To-day's Accidents Miner Injured
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 7
Thomas Bower, 54, a miner of Rawson-street, Kurri, was struck by a fall of coal while at work at Pelaw Main colliery to-day. He sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ettalong Business Man Found Drowned Gosford
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 10
James Hines, 50, master butcher, of Ettalong, was found dead on the sand at Ettalong Beach early this morning. The body, which was clothed in a bathing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boy Drowned Fell Into Waterhole Tragedy Near Morpeth
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 8
Donald Trevor Beggs, 7, of High-street, Morpeth, with a companion named Colin Charles O'Keefe, was exercising a greyhound yesterday morning, when he fell…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Family Drowned Cyclonic Storm in Fiji SUVA, January 24
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 10
A Fijian, his wife, and five children, are reported to have been drowned in the Navua district during a cyclonic storm at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →40 Injured When Trams Crash Seventeen Taken to Hospital SYDNEY
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 9
Forty persons were injured when two trams collided in Parramatta-road, Camperdown, to-day. Seventeen of the injured were taken to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Severer Tests Would Help Defective Eyesight as Accident Cause Cars to Blame Also
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 8
Ald. Pittar is to be commended for advocating the need for more stringent eyesight tests when persons present themselves for a motor-driver's licence…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 12
Roy Bradley, 11, of Bolton Point, almost severed the great toe of the left foot when an axe slipped when he was cutting wood at his home. Lake Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →£16000 for Cruise Accident London, January 10
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 8
A passenger on a Whit-suntide cruise who slipped in a ship's corridor and broke his leg was awarded £6000 by a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collision with Tram Boy Cyclist Seriously Injured
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 10
When the bicycle he Was riding and a tram collided in Maitland-road, Mayfield, yesterday afternoon, Dixon Armstrong 8, of Section-street, Mayfield,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 19
James Halliday, 18, was fatally injured when a bicycle he Was riding collided with a motor-truck on the Newmarket road…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Engineer Drowned Wellington (N.z.)
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 15
W. H. Carter, Public Works engineer was drowned when washed from rock by a big wave during a hurricane at Sunday Island. He was supervising…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Kurri Two Miners Injured
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 13
William Backhus, 35, a miner, of Hebburn-street, Weston, was picking coal in Hebburn No. 2 colliery yesterday, when a piece of coal struck him in the left…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fatally Injured Felling Burning Tree Launceston
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 2
To prevent the possibility of a burning tree causing bush fires Charles Wagner, 45, of Winnaleah, decided to cut it down. The tree struck him, pinning his legs to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Accident Victim
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 9
The victim of the car fatality in Hill-street, Lambton, on Tuesday night was Mrs. Agnes Bryant, of Hill-street, Lambton…
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