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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

2,026 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 102

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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Car Accident Police Sergeant Charged SYDNEY

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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Yesterday's Accidents

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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Yesterday's Accidents

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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Yesterday's Accidents

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…

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£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…

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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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Cyclist Killed in Collision Brisbane

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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