Surf Boats in Collision Caves Beach Craft Smashed at Stockton Club's Carnival Home Team Wins March Past
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 11
A SURF BOAT collision which, for a time, lost all its spectacular incident because of the possibility of serious injury to some members of the crews…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 1
Strapped in the front cock-pit pilot-Instructor A. F. ("Buster")Brown 24, was trapped below the surface of the water when a Gipsy Moth training plane nose-dived into a mangrove swamp at Pelican Point,near kurnell, to-day…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 9
The pilot-instructor, A. F. Brown, 24, was killed to-day when he was trapped in the cockpit of a Gipsy Moth training plane which nose-dived into a swamp at…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 9
John Wylie, 35, of Main-road, Cardiff, a boilermaker's assistant at Cardiff railway workshops, suffered a lacerated wound to the forehead when the end of a file…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 10
For having failed to report an accident within 24 hours, John Patrick Gannon, of Hebbura-street, Hamilton, was fined 10/, with 10/ costs, in default two days'…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 11
Ralph Newton, 17, of Station-street, Homeville, was admitted to Maitland District Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a probable fracture of both…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 5
Struck by a piece of steel while at work at Bloomfield South colliery to-day Robert Turnbull (53), blacksmith, of Morgan Street, Adamstown had his…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 5
When the bicycle he was riding came into collision with a motor car on the Great Northern-road. Rutherford, last night, Ralph Newton (17), of…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 5
"The fact that a person has an accident tends to make him over-cautious in similar circumstances, with the result that actions which previously wee automatic received studied con[?] is increased…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 5
At the conclusion of an inquiry at Newcastle Courthouse to-day into the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of fire in the Commonwealth Oil Refineries' 300,000-gallon power kerosene tank on December 16, the Coroner (Mr. A. G…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1940 · page 5
Matthew Anderson, 26, of Howe Street, Lambton, received lacerations to the scalp when he was struck on the head by a piece of timber while at…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 11
Norman Reynolds, 39, of Rawson-street. Aberdare, a miner at Elrington colliery, received injuries to his back while filling a skip of coal yesterday. He was…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 11
When his motor-cycle skidded in gravel, Reginald Henty, 20, of Helensburgh, received severe head injuries, and was admitted to Coledale Cottage…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 11
Caught in a fall of coal at Hebburn No. 2 colliery yesterday afternoon, James Thornton, 42, of Hall-street, Weston, a miner; received lacerations on the right…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 11
Eight minor accident cases were treated by ambulance bearers in the Newcastle district yesterday. Mrs. Mary Cameron, 54, of Hunter…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1940 · page 11
Robert Turnbull, 83, of Morgan-street, Adamstown, a blacksmith at Bloomfield South colliery, received extensive lacerations to his face and chin when he was…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 8
When she fell down some steps in Parnell-Place this afternoon, Irene Sharpe (40), shop assistant, of Beach-street, Newcastle, suffered a probable…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 8
Thomas Partland, 32, a wheeler, of Seventh Street, Weston, suffered an injury to the right leg when it was crushed by a horse at Hebburn No. 2…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 13
Five firemen were injured, one fatally, to-day in two road smashes, one at Lane Cove and the other at Mascot. At Lane Cove, four firemen were…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 13
A FEW DAYS before his wedding was planned to take place in Sydney, Private Edward Bell, of the Second A.I.F., received an injury in camp at Greta. For…
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