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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

2,746 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 138

Road That Was Drowned

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 1

A special aerial picture, showing how the main road from Brisbane lost itself under the floodwaters near the Archerfield aerodrome. This picture was rushed to "The Sunday Sun" by air mail late yesterday…

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Three Injured In Car and Motor-cycle Crash Two Skulls Are Fractured In Randwick Collision

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 2

THREE people were injured last night when a car and a motor cycle collided at Randwick. James Murphy, of Maroubra, rider…

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Hunt on Injured List

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 15

PLAYlNG for Balmain against W. Suburbs, a the S.C.G. yesterday,W. Hunt, the inter-State left-handed bowler, injured his side, and could…

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3 Drowned in Flood at Brisbane Waters Falling Refugees Going Home Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 5

Two men and a child have been drowned in the Brisbane floods, which are now rapidly falling. Hundreds of refugees are…

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Youth Thought to Be Drowned Returns Home Missed From Warship Had Swum Ashore Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 2

A remarkable story is told in Invercargill of the return to life of a youth, believed to have been lost overboard from the cruiser…

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Accidental Ascot Crash

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 9

The A.R.C. stipendiary stewards yesterday concluded their inquiry into the cause of the fall of Fleetfoot (E. Hale) and Betty Clare (R…

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Rescued From Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 10

Nellie Rowley, 7, whose home is at 27 Wellington-street, Newtown, fell into the lagoon in University Park yesterday afternoon. She could not swim; neither could her sister, Violet,…

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Speed Rider Injured

The Sun · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

Hobart, Monday.--Harry Duggan, 24, fractured his skull at the Moonah Speedway on Saturday, when his motor cycle and sidecar…

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Messenger Boy Injured by Taxi

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

Wheeling blycle out of the "Daily Pictorial" cart dock in Phillip Street early yesterday morning, George Ritchie telegraph messenger, of…

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2 Drowned Near Ramsgate Sailing Boat's Capsize Two Escape

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 5

TWO men were drowned in Botany Bay this afternoon, and two others had narrow escapes, when a…

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Fires at Cessnock. Four Children Injured. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 10

Four boys, who were playing at the store of Barringham and Johnson, undertakers, Cessnock, when a fire broke out this afternoon, suffered burns to the hands, face, and…

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Cyclist Killed. Accident at Bankstown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 9

Riding a bicycle in Lakemba-street, Bankstown, about 11 o'clock last night, Joseph Raffaele, an Italian, of Burwood-road, Belmore, collided with a motor car driven by a woman,…

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Rescued From Drowning. Bowral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 10

James Nichols, 19, a member of a swimm[?] party from Bowral, had a narrow escape from drowning in the Mittagong baths yesterday Nichols was seen at the bottom of the [?]…

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Speedway Fatality HOBART

Evening News · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Harry Duggan whose skull was fractured at the Speedway, on Saturday might, died in Hobart Hospital to-day…

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Man Drowned Taree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 10

Yesterday afternoon, P. Allard, about [?] was swimming a horse across the river [?] Fallford. The horse reared and Allard [?] thrown into the river and drowned…

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Boy Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 10

Reginald Fitton, 16, a newsboy, of Arthurstreet, Randwick, was seriously injured yesterday when he fell from a moving tram in Belmore-road, Randwick. The Eastern Suburbs…

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Mail Cab in Collision. Taree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 10

wnen the mail car from Tuncurry to T[?] was about four miles out of Taree a coll[?] occurred. Percy Burdekin, mall contracts received a fracture of two bones in the [?]…

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Savage Attack. Farmer Seriously Injured. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 10

Residents of Alberton, a small town four miles from Yarram, were shocked this morning upon hearing of a savage attack on Leslie Ernest Horton, a middle-aged farmer…

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Two Men Drowned. Tragedy in Botany Bay. Fishing Boat Capsizes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 9

Two men were drowned in Botany Bay yesterday afternoon when their fishing boat overturned near Ramsgate. They were: Sidney Alfred Walker, 32, of…

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