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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Fatality at Gerringong

The South Coast Register · Friday 12 May 1933 · page 1

Alan Weir (21), one of the popular young men of Toolijooa, was found lying dead on the road about two milts south of Gerringong at 2 a.m. on Monday morning…

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Matilda's Accident

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1933 · page 2

"Oh, dear! What shall I do," sobbed Grace. "Dolly will die, I'm sure she will; she's fallen down on the fender and broken her head clean…

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Young Man Accidentally Killed Found by a Nowra Resident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 12 May 1933 · page 6

Residents of the Gerringong district received a dreadful shock on Monday morning when it became known that the body of Mr. Alan Weir, one of the…

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Sad Fatality

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1933 · page 3

Residents of the Gerringong district received a dreadful shock on Monday morning: when it became known that the body of Mr. Alan…

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Car Accident at Brogo

The Bega District News · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 2

Last Thursday morning what might have been a serious accident occurred at Brogo at the nasty bend opposite Mrs Keys’ house. It was exactly the…

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Cycling Accident

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 3

A remarkable cycling accident happened at Gonjola recently. A Burrilt fisherman was returning from Nowra, riding a motor cycle with an empty…

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Valuable Accident

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1933 · page 2

When that very dangerous explosive, nitro-glycerine, was first invented extraordinary precautions had to be taken to prevent accidents while the…

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Queer Accidents

The Bega District News · Monday 29 May 1933 · page 1

It all sounds unbelievable, but it’s true, according to a writer in the “American Weekly” which is published in New York. Records of accidents…

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Bad Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 9 June 1933 · page 6

Jim Kelly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kelly, of Naval College, Jervis Bay, and a pupil of Nowra Intermediate High School, met with a double…

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Motor Accidents

The Nowra Leader · Friday 9 June 1933 · page 4

On Monday afternoon last the utility motor vehicle, deliveing the staff of life, came into collision with a couple of motor cars just off the…

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Accident, Resulting in the Death of the injured Man

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 5

Reports the Kiama paper :-- As the result of serious injuries, sustained on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Herbert Hayes, a well-known and popular ganger of the…

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Motor Accident

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 5

What might easily have been a fatality happened on the Prince's Highway, near Plunkett-street, on Monday afternoon. It appears that…

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Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 5

A nasty accident, which might have easily been more tragic, happened on the Prince's Highway, near Plunket-street, Nowra, on Monday afternoon…

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Accident to Mr. Monaghan

The Nowra Leader · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 5

Mr. P. P. Monaghan, turncock, met with a nasty accident on Friday last, and the wonder is that he is alive to tell the tale. He was engaged repairing the…

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"Skied" on His Motor Cycle Accident at Barnes' Corner

The Nowra Leader · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 2

There are several spots in and out of the town which are regarded as veritable death-traps, some of which could be avoided if the powers that be…

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Danger of Falls Many Persons Killed and Injured Every Year

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 4

Falls constitute the second most prolific cause of fatal accidents. Some of these fatalities are due to faulty construction of dwellings or bad…

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Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 18 August 1933 · page 6

On Wednesday afternoon an accident incurred, in Kinghorn-street, Nowra, which Might easily have been far more, serious. Mr. Streddler, of…

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£500 a Year for Drowning Kittens

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1933 · page 2

Probably no woman in the world has so curious a profession as Miss Irene Barton, of St. Louis, who is well-known locally as a professional kitten…

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Accident. [?]Miraculous Om Death. Gelignite Explode Hut

The Nowra Leader · Friday 25 August 1933 · page 5

[?]ad his son, Rudolph, [?] mirarculous escade [?]day last week, when [?]eruloded in a hut…

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Fatal Accident at Woodhill Farmer Shot by Wife

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 August 1933 · page 1

Word reached Nowra on Sunday afternoon of a fatal accident having occurred at Woodhill earlier in the day. The facts were that Matthew…

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