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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 160

Charged by Cow. Man Fatally Injured. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 9

Holt Thomas, 24, of Sandy Camp, Ecnuca West, died to-day as a result of being impaled on the horns of a cow yesterday. Thomas and some friends were riding steers…

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Fear of Death in His Dream Young Boy Jumps From Verandah in His Sleep Not Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 7

NIGHTMARES are no small things to young. Archibald Chisholm, 14, of Queen Street. Newtown, who, for the second time…

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NO. 2 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice K. W. Street and juries.) Pedestrian Injured. Munro v Sharpe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 6

The hearing was concluded of the action in which Clarence Archibald Munro claimed damages from Bernard Sharpe for the loss of his wife's companionship and incidental…

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Accidental Shooting. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 10

Charles Clement Fundess, 44, an aboriginal stableman, was accidentally shot in the left hand and the abdomen when fox-hunting on Mr. J. J. Leahy's property near Bathurst…

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Four Hurt Bread Lorries In Collision

The Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 17

Four persons wore injured to-day when two bread lorries, owned by Gartrell, White, Ltd., collided in Railway-parade, Lidcombe…

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District Court. (Before Judge Edwards.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 8

The Prince Alfred Hospital, of Camperdown, sued Monica Piddington, of Artarmon-street, Artarmon, claiming £100 for damages to a motor car arising out of a motor collision on…

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Body in Surf Rockdale Man Drowned at Harbord

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 9

The fully -clothed body of a man found floating in the surf at Harbord Beach yesterday morning has been identified as that of Christopher…

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Hit a 'Bus Lorry Smashed And Driver Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 15

A motor lorry was smashed, and the driver, Walter Upton, 42, of Carlton-street, city, injured, to-day, when the lorry collided with a motor 'bus…

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Struck with Bat. Member of Parliament Injured. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 14

While teaching a boy how to hold a cricket bat at the Geelong Grammar School to-day, Mr. Austin, M.L.A., received a severe blow on the face. The boy was in the act of making a…

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Dramatic Rescues. Explosion Wrecks Houses. Six Killed and 17 Injured. London, March 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 13

Six persons were killed and 17 injured in an explosion at Gateshead, Durham which, it is believed, was due to a steam excavator working on the roadway damaging a gas main…

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The Accidental Alibi

The World's News · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 27

I DON'T know whether it is worse to lose the respect of others…

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Chapter of Accidents Sydney Visitors To The Grand Prix

Referee · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 26

SYDNEY visitors to Phillip Island for the Grand Prix are conducting a hoodoo hunt—those of them, that is, with enough energy left…

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Supreme Court. No. 1 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers and jury.) Level Crossing Accident. Kennedy v Commissioner for Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 8

This matter is reported in another column. Mr. H. W. May (instructed by Messrs. H. W. McGuiggin and Thirlwell) appeared for plaintiff; and Mr. Watt, K.C., and Mr. Leaver…

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Thrilling Race for Man's Life Accident Has All the Elements of Movie Drama Under Tree

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 5

ALL the elements or a movie "thriller," including a dash for help on a horse, were Contained in an accident which…

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Electricity Accidents "Tighten Up Rules." Says Engineer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 10

NO number of safety regulations for apparatus could have eliminated 51 out of the 72 electrical accidents which had…

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Dog and Drowned Child

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Hearing her dog barking near a well, Mrs. Flora Alway, of McLean's Road, Bundoora, looked down, and saw floating…

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Four Drowned Suva

The Sun · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 15

At Slgatoka 30 inches of rain were registered between Saturday and Monday. An office of the C.S.R. Co., was washed away. Four deaths…

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Casualties. Four Persons Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 10

Four persons were injured yesterday when two bakers' vans collided in Railway-parade, Lidcombe. They were taken to the Auburn District Hospital by the Parramatta District…

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Two Injured in Car Capsize

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 6

Miss Diana Vahey 21,of Avenue Road, Mosman and Gordon Summers, 25, builder, of Hodgson Avenue, Cremorne, suffered painful, though…

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On Line Painter Injured in Fall

The Sun · Thursday 30 March 1933 · page 15

Vico Rinoldi, 63, of Crown-street, City, was painting the roof of a house in Hurstville this afternoon when the ladder slipped. He fell four feet and…

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