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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

4,393 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 220

Collision at Blakehurst

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 1

A collision occurred on the Prince's Highway, Blakehurst, last Monday night between a motor cycle and a sulky, as a result of which Ronald…

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Lad Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

A bolting horse collided with a telegraph pole in Railway-street, on Tuesday, and threw Gordon Fitton, aged 16, violently to the roadway. He sustained a…

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Carter Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 5

Harold Swinbourne (224, a catter of a Red [?] street [?] while assisting to load his lorry with heavy cases met with an accident of a…

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Child Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

As a result of falling over a box while playing in the yard at his home at 20 H[?]terstreet, Merewether, this afternoon, George Redding, aged 4 years, suffered a severe injury…

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Pendle Hill. Scalding Fatality

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 3

Mr. P. S. Poolman, Coroner, held an inquiry at the Parramatta Courthouse, concerning the death of a child, one year and elven months old, named Frederick…

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Found Drowned. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

This afternoon the body of Patrick M'Kearney was found floating in the Murrumbidgee River, near Orange Tree Point, three miles upstream from Wagga. M'Kearney, who has…

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Casualties. Carter Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 11

Harold Swinbourne, aged 22, a carter, received a probable fractured skull at No. 1[?] Wharf Jones' Bay, yesterday, when his head was caught between two heavy cases. The…

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Drowned While Bathing Lautueton

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

Mr. W. Buckman's son Bobbie, aged nine years, was drowned yesterday afternoon at the mouth of Gooly Creek…

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Dinghy Overturns. Young Man Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 7

A flashing dinghy overturned about a mile off Albert Park beach, Melbourne, on Wednesday, and one of the occupants, Roy Edwards, of Albert Park,…

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River Collision. Steamer, Crashes Into Wharf. Accident While Berthing. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

While berthing on arrival from the north this evening the steamer Burwah crashed into the Adelaide Steamship Company's wharf at Stanley-street, South Brisbane…

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Fatal Cycle Collision. Dangerous Carrier Riding

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

Two motor-cycles collided heavily in Perth (W.A) last week, causing the death of one man, serious injury to another and slight injury to two girls…

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City Collision. Auctioneer Fined. Perjury Alleged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 6

The case in which Clive Edwards, aged 31 years, an auctioneer, was charged with having driven a motor car in Elizabeth-street, city, on December. 27 whilst under the…

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MISADVENTURES Surfer Drowned Heroic Girl Rescuer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

While surfing at Bulli Beach (N.S.W.) in heavy weather on Tuesday, Thomas Hinton, aged twenty-four years, a steward at Hawkesbury…

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Yarra Boating Tragedy. a Sydney Man Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

Norman Bohnetti, aged thirty-six years, a commercial traveller, who is believed to have been a visitor from Sydney, was drowned in the Yarra,…

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Miners Injured. Cage Out of Control

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 2

Fourteen miners were injures in a cage accident at New Craigball colliery pit, near Edinburgh, on Monday, but only two of the men are in a…

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Drowned in a Car. Pinned in a Creek

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

A young man named Bernard Thomas, motor-driver for Mr. Fred Kaye, was found drowned pinned underneath a car in the Turalla Greek,…

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Man Drowned in the Surf. Rockdale Girl Attempts Rescue

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 1

Thomas Hinton, aged 24, a resident of Richmond, whilst surfing at Bulli Beach on Tuesday morning, was swept off his feet by a large wave, caught in a strong…

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