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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 160

Pellet Fractured Thigh Bone Boy's Accident with Pea Rifle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 6

While playing with a pea-rifle at his home in Kent Street, Epping, yesterday afternoon, James Ross (15) accidentally shot himself, the pellet…

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Buses in Collision. Man Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 12

A man named Donald Rolls, of Fairy Meadow, near Bulli, was seriously injured last night, when a bus carrying passengers from Thirroul to Waterfall crashed into another…

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Saved, From Drowning

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 1

Swimming in a near Prince's Highway, Blakehurst. yesterday, Georg Hiller, 8 of Bellvue Parade, Hurstville, got into difficulties. He…

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Horseman Injured. Coraki

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 12

Frederick White, aged 47 years, a relief worker, met with a shocking accident last night. After ceasing work he was riding home and the horse bucked. One foot was…

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Sewerage Worker Killed. Another Seriously Injured

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 20

"John Cullen, 28 years, of Melbourne, was killed, and John Sini, also of Melbourne, seriously injured, on Thursday while working at the sewerage outflow on…

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Miners Trapped Nearly Drowned in Tunnel Goulburn

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 11

Three gold prospectors narrowly escaped drowning during a violent thunderstorm at Tirrannaville, five miles from Goulburn, late yesterday…

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Bus Collision in Fog Serious Injuries at Bulli Pass

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 1

A THICK fog was responsible last night for a smash between two crowded buses near Bulli Pass…

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'Plane Crashes. Water Causes Misjudgment. Pilot Slightly Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 11

A large area of water left by the rain on the Mascot Aerodrome caused Robert Maguire, the son of Dr. F. A. Maguire, of Macquariestreet, Sydney, to crash while making a…

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Three in Car Capsize Man Injured; Others Escape

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 7

WAGGA, Tuesday.--Near Tarcutta, on the main Sydney-Melbourne Road, to-day, a car driven by a man named Delaney, who was…

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Nurse Francis Injured

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 9

NURSE FRANCIS, secretary of the Women's Central Organising Committee of the A.L.P., and honorary…

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Casualties. Woman Drowned. Tingha

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 10

Lucy Isabel Grant, 23, fell off the landing stage at Cope Harding swimming hole yesterday afternoon, and was drowned in eight feet of water. The body was recovered half an…

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Girl Drowned In Waterhole At Epping

The Sun · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 17

EARLY this afternoon, Joan Parry, 15, of Warrigal- street, Turramurra, was drowned in Brown's waterhole, at the…

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Grieved Over His Wife's Death Nyngan Rector Found Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 7

For four years Rev. E. S. Woolley, rector of St. Mark's, Nyngan, grieved over the death of his wife, and yesterday his body was found in a…

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Rev. Father Felix Conlon, S.J. Drowned Off Avoca

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 15

Tragedy, on the 19th inst., overtook a company of Jesuits from Riverview and St. Aloysius' College, North Sydney, who were holiday-making at Avoca, near Gosford,…

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Drowned in Old Mining Dam Girl Was Bathing with Friends

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 7

INVERELL, Wednesday.--Lucy Eileen Grant, the 24-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Grant, of Tingha, was drowned in 10 feet of…

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Injured by Dog Law Governing Claims for Damages

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 10

"Householder" asks whether she would be liable for damages it her fox terrier bit any person who was prowing about her place at nigh, as she allows the dog to run loose then,…

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Falls From Buildings. Man Dead; Another Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 9

Two men fell from buildings in different parts of the city yesterday. One man died from his injuries, and the other is in hospital in a serious condition…

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Man Killed in Theatre Painting Ceiling and Fell 30Ft. Manly Fatality

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 7

Painting the celling of the Rialto Theatre, Manly, early last night, Robert Davies, of Toxteth Road, Glebe, fell 30 feet from a…

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VETERINARY Treatment of Stock Diseases and Injuries Injured neck

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 10

"Cuyderdale" says that his draught station has developed a soft lump on his hock. At first it was the size of a pigeon's egg, but it has grown larger; and, although it cannot…

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Sad Death of Rev. Felix Conlon, S.J. Drowned in Heroic Life-Saving Effort. Grim Tragedy at Avoca Beach

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 26

"Well, Mr. Miller, we are past the breakers now," were the last words spoken by the Rev. Father Felix Conlon, S.J., to Mr. John…

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