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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Motor Accidents Fewer Persons Killed or Injured in New South Wales

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 9

Fewer motor car accidents were recorded in New South Wales last year than in 1929. The fatalities totalled 358, and there were 7203 persons injured. A…

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Two Cyclists. Injured at Level Crossing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 17

Two motor cyclists were injured, but not seriously, when their machine crashed into the gates at the Sydney-road raliway level crossing at Clyde last night…

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Injured Footballer. Transportation by Air. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 17

Last June a Rockhampton footballer, named Frederick Politz, was tackled in a game and had his spine injured. He has since been an invalid in the Rockhampton…

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Wall Collapses. Girl Killed Under Ruins. Three Companions Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 13

A girl was killed and her three companions injured yesterday afternoon when a gust of wind blew down a brick wall at the corner of Parramatta-road and Australia-street,…

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Six Injured in Smash Lorry-Car Crash Near Narellan

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 3

SIX persons were injured in a terrific collision between a car and a motor lorry on the Cowpasture-rd, about three miles from Narellan, last night…

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Black Sea Storm. Fifty People Drowned. Russian Steamer Founders. London, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 13

A message from Bucharest states that in a tenific storm in the Black Sea the Russian steamer Zavasila foundered. The crew of 36 and 14 passengers were drowned…

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Death Wall Demolition Authorities Carrying Out Work Injured Go Home

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 3

AWAKING to the danger after a young girl had lost her life, the authorities are busy to-day pulling down the remnants of the brick wall…

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Goldmine Disaster Eleven Killed:80 Injured By Rock Fall CALCUTTA

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 1

ELLVEN men were killed and 80 in[?] a the result of a tall of lock in the Ooragaum gold mine, in the State of Mysore, yesterday. Nine bodies…

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Vic. Astronomer Killed in Smash Baby Car Overturns Son Badly Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 1

The Assistant Government Astronomer of Victoria, Mr. Charles James Merfield, 64, was killed, and his son, Theodore, 28, severely injured when…

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Car Accident at St. Marys

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 5

A Baby Austin being driven along Queen Street, St. Marys, on Thursday afternoon by Mr James Brell overturned when opposite Mr J. T. Hope's store…

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Car Accident. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 17

In connection with the car accident in Oaks-avenue last week-end, it is expiained that the damaged car was owned nnd driven by Mr. L. Loriman, of Chillingham, not Mr…

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MR. C. T. MERFIELD. Victorian Astronomer. Killed in Motor Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 14

Mr Charles James Merfield, 64, the assistant Government astronomer of Victoria, who lived in Hill-street Toorak, was killed in a motor accident near Ballarat to-day. Theodore…

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Shot in Leg "Accidental Discharge" Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 7

Frank Lamont, 25, seaman, of Lansdown-street, East Melbourne was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital to-day with a bullet wound in…

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6192 Flights Without an Accident

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 14

GOULBURN, Friday. -- Goulburn Aero Club's planes have made 6192 flights without an accident, since the club was formed in 1928…

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Motor Accidents. Fatality at Ermington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 8

Mrs. Gloria Hegman, 50, of Ada-street, Canley Vale, was killed, and Henry Cahill, 56, of Ada-street, Canley Vale, and his son, Reuben Cahill, 16, were seriously injured when…

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Collision at Surf Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 10

The North Bondi surf boat colliding with the upturned North Cronulla boat in Saturday's rough sea at the North Bondi carnival…

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Cyclist Badly Injured

Evening News · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

When a car and a motor cycle came into collision at the intersection of Shaftesbury-rd, and Victoria-st., Burwood, to-day, the rider of the cycle…

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ELECTROCUTED. Fatality at Ballina. BALLINA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 8

Henry Albert Foster, manager of the Electric Supply Co., was electrocuted this morning. He was attending to installations in River-street, and found it necessary to climb…

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Two Injured When Car Skids

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1

When a car containing ten perrons skidded in Queen Street, Campbell town yesterday afternoon and struck a telegraph pole, May Porter, 65, of…

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Three Policemen Injured in Car Smash

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1

Three policemen were injured early yesterday morning when a patrol car crashed into a taxi-cab at the corner of George and Market Streets City…

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