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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 160

Lad Injured in Baths

The Propeller · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 7

Striking his head on the "slippery slide" at Ramsgate Baths on Wednesday, Noel Hartley (13), Prince's Highway, Helensburgh, fell into the water…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 8

When a motor lorry and motor cycle collided yesterday at Wollongong. William Newton, butcher, of Keiraville. the motor cyclist, sustained a compound…

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Paper Seller Injured by Motor Cycle

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 7

Robert Fletcher, 17, paper seller, of Cleveland street, Chippendale, was knocked down by a motor cycle while crossing Cleveland…

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Miner Injured by Fall of Stone Kurri

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 4

Struck by a fall of stone in Richmond Main Colliery to-day, William Parkinson, 56, a miner, of Maitland Road, Kurrl. suffered probable fractures to…

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Woman Entomologist Safe Among Cannibals But Injured in London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 8

Civilisation has proved more dangerous to Miss L.E.Cheesman, the noted English entomologist and zoologist than the wild lands in which she has so often found herself.On…

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One Killed, Five Injured Motor Car Overturns Perth

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 8

Through the steering gear failing, a motor car got out of control on the Perth-Fremantle Road on Buckland Hill to-day, and after crashing into…

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Scene of Level Crossing Fatality at North Richmond Last Night When Two Women Were Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 12

THE REMAINS OF THE MOTOR CAR WHICH COLLIDED WITH THE TRAIN. TWO WOMEN WERE KILLED, AND A MAN AND A WOMAN WERE INJURED. THE MOTOR CAR WAS CARRIED BY THE TRAIN ALONG THIS BRIDGE FROM THE I CROSSING. THE CAR FELL WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE STANDING BELOW…

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Dilemma on Choice of Doctor Treatment of Injured Worker Causes Dispute Compromise

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 13

SHOULD a worker receiving compensation be asked to undergo treatment volunteered by his employer's doctors when his…

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One Drowned In Sea Tragedy At Coalcliff Gallant Rescue of Two Others Terrific Battle In Angry Sea Tossed Like Cork

The Sun · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 9

A DRAMA of the sea, in which one fisherman was drowned and his two mates rescued by friends who had not accompanied them on account of the heavy sea, was enacted at Coalcliff, on the South Coast shortly after dawn to-day…

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North Richmond Level Crossing Smash Two Women Die in Crossing Smash Train Hits Car: Bodies Hurled Over Bridge Others Badly Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 1

Struck by a train on a level crossing and carried nearly 100 yards along the narrow railway bridge at North Richmond last night, Arthur Taylor's car was wrecked and his wife and his mother…

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2 Killed When Train Crashes Into a Car Vehicle Carrying Picnic Party Stalls on Level Crossing Two Injured Victims Were Mother and Wife of the Driver

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 8

TWO women were killed and a man and his sister critically injured at 6.25 o'clock at Richmond, near the Nepean Bridge,…

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District Court. (Before Judge Edwards and juries, each of four.) Railway Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 6

Charles Percy Laird, of Blaxland-road, Ryde, sued the Commissioner of Railways for£400 damages, for injuries received as the result of being thrown on the railway line at…

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Constable Shot. Accident at Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 10

Constable Healey, of the wireless patrol, was accidentally shot in a leg during a search through a factoiy in Camperdown early yesterday morning…

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Detective Shot in the Thigh His Gun Accidentally Exploded While Searching Ricocheted

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 7

DETECTIVE J. HEALY, of the Western Suburbs wireless patrol, was shot in the thigh early yesterday morning. when his…

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Girl Drowned. Griffiths

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 14

Gladys May Kennedy, eight years, was drowned late yesterday afternoon in a dam on a farm near Griffith, where her mother was employed as housekeeper. The child was…

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Cyclist Badly Injured'

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 5

While riding his motor cycle along Parramatta Road, Croydon, last night, Edwin Moorehead, 21, collided with a car which came out of…

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Drowned in Dam Griffith

The Sun · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 6

Playing round a dam at Ballingal, Gladys May Kennedy, 8, fell in, and was drowned in four and a half feet of water…

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Man Drowned. Boat Capsized by Wave

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 13

An unemployed man named Samuel Hancock was drowned off Pebbly Beach, Coalcliff, at 5.45 a.m. yesterday, when a heavy wave capsized the small boat from which he was…

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Man Drowned Capsize of Boat at Coalcliff

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 1

When a boat in which he had gone out to Ash was capsized in a heavy sea at Coalcliff at 5;30 a.m. yesterday, Samuel Hancock (46); of…

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Drowned in Breakers Off Scarborough Beach Body Missing Scarborough

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 5

When a small fishing boat capsized in the heavy breakers just off Scarborough Beach to-day, Samuel Hancock, 41, unemployed miner, was…

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