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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 160

In Rough Country Woman Injured by Fall From Horse

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--While Miss Ada Lock, newsagent and stationer, of Ireland Street, Bright, was riding down a steep slope on a…

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Wage Cut Will Have No Effect Compensation Rate to Injured Worker Is Unaltered

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 5

THE amount of weekly compensation payable to a worker totally Incapacitated cannot bo reduced because of a subsequent reduction In…

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Day's Accidents Sydney Figures Easily Beat Melbourne's

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 10

Melbourne Hospital's claim to a record of 180 patients treated at the casualty department in one day, is easily beaten by the out-patients'…

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Car Accident Three Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 2

As last week was within half an hour of drawing to a close, Mrs. Susan Barber, of 65 Cowper-street, Granville, with her two children, was driving home from an…

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Plucky Rescue From Drowning

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 8

A plucky rescue was made yesterday when a boy about ten years of age fell into the water, off the wharf at the bottom of Erskine Street. His…

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Saved From Drowning. Wagga, Wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 10

Miss Florence Eden disappeared while swimming in the river. A High school boy dived in and brought her to the surface, but he became exhausted, and released her. The young…

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Head-on Collision Perth

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 8

Two metropolitan charabancs met in a head-on collision outside the Richmond Hotel, near the traffic bridge, Fremantle, this afternoon,…

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Fifty Injured Severe Earthquake in Germany Munich

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 11

Fifty people were injured in an earthquake at Restatt to-day, when many houses and public buildings were destroyed…

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Boy's Strange Death Not Seriously Injured Tragic Street

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 1

Robert Ronald Richards, 13½, of Frampton Avenue, Marrickville, fell from a fence on to a garden stake in Frampton Avenue yesterday…

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Drowned in Dam. Man and Five-Year-Old Boy. COOLAH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 10

Richard Bladen 24 single and Kenneth Burton Ticehurst 5 son of P B. Ticehurst. of Bilkenyah Farm, 16 miles from Coolah, were drowned in a dam on a reserve near…

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Accidents of the Week. Cyclist Injured

The Propeller · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 4

Last Saturday evening Jack Walsh, 32, of King's Road, Brighton-le-Sands, while riding a bicycle along Crawford Road, Brighton, endeavoured to catch…

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Wharf Labourer Injured

The Propeller · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 4

While working on a steamer at Pyrmont yesterday, Henry Shackleton, 48. wharf-labourer, of Gibbes Street, Rockdale, fell into the hold of the vessel…

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Boy Injured at Hurstville

The Propeller · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 4

James Bissell, 13, of Lily St., Hurstville, was admitted to St. George Hospital on Monday suffering from severe shock and lacerations sustained in a…

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Three Men Injured in Garage

The Biz · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 5

Three men were struck by flying pieces of steel on Wednesday alternoon, when a tyre burst in Brown's car sarvice station in Sydney-road,…

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Police Wireless Patrol Car Damaged in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 12

When proceeding to a call last night the police car collided with a motor van at the corner of Sydenham and Livingstone roads, Marrickville, and overturned several times. Three occupants were injured…

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District Court. (Before Judge Thomson.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 6

Albert James Byrne, of Culdees-road, Enfield, sought to recover from Sydney McIver, of Croydon-avenue, Croydon Park, £150 damages to a motor car and loss or…

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Man Drowned in Murray Mildura (Vic,)

The Sun · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 13

Jack O'Neill (21), of South Broken Hill, who could not swim, was drowned in the Murray at Coomella on Thursday…

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Police Patrol Wrecked in Collision. Rushing to a Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 9

While racing along Livingstone-road, Marrickville, to the scene of a robbery last night, the western districts police wireless patrol came into collision with a lorry at the…

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C.I.B. Wireless Patrol Wrecked Smashed Into Big Truck at Marrickville Four Officers Injured; One Has His Leg Broken Hurled Yards Turned Four Complete Somersaults in Collision

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 4

PROCEEDING to a robbery in Livingstone Road, Marrickville, last night, the C.I.B. western wireless patrol was…

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Police Car Wrecked Somersaults When Hit by Lorry Two Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1933 · page 1

Somersaulting four times, a police wireless car was wrecked in a smash with a lorry last…

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