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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 160

Street Fatality

The Sun · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 7

Frederick Clark, 33, of Campbell street, Newtown, was fatally crushed beneath the wheels of a heavy meat waggon at the intersection of Haig…

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Pipe Blamed for Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 7

The bed on which he was lying still burning, Edward H. Wiley (50) was found yesterday morning burned to death in a house in Pennant Hills…

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Cyclists Hurt Collision With Car

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 1

William Nutt, 23, and William Mc-Andrew, 49, both of Alfred-street, Granville were injured on Saturday when their motor cycle and a motor car collided at…

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Knocked Down Motorist Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 2

Harvey Cochrane (21), residing at Castle Hill-road. Baulkham Hills, was admitted at Parramatta-District Hospital on Sunday evening, suffering from a…

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Struck by Car Two Injured While Mending Puncture

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 11

Struck by a passing car while they were mending a puncture on Windsor Road, Baulkham Hills, yesterday, two men were injured, one seriously…

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Constable and Baby Killed. Struck by Motor Cycle. Tragic Accident at Newtown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 9

A police constable and a baby, 19 months old, received fatal injuries in a motor cycling accident in Ersklnevllle-road, Newtown, on Saturday night…

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Pitched to Death Ski-ing Accident At Lake Louise CALGARY

The Sun · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 13

Mr. R. Paley, 25, who was educated at Eton and Cambridge University, and had had a brilliant mathematical career, was killed…

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Killed in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 7

Thrown heavily to the roadway when his motor cycle collided with a lorry in Cathedral Street, City, yesterday, Frank Clarke (33), of…

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Troopers Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 1

GOULBURN, Monday. -- Thrown from his horse during a sporting event at the 7th Light Horse Regimental camp at the Showground,…

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Injured Workers Compensation Awards

The Sun · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 15

Delivering the Judgment of the Workers' Compensation Commission to-day in the case in which Frederick Boyd, of Hurstville, moulder, sought…

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G.P.S. Oarsman Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 3

Sydney Grammar School first four for the G.P.S. regatta has been temporarily upset. While washing…

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Emilie Roach to Ride Injured at Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 10

ALTHOUGH still suffering from the effects of a fractured forearm. Miss Emilie Roach has every intention of competing in this year's…

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Girls Injured Struck by Motor Car on Footway

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 1

Swerving his car to avoid a collision with a motor cycle at the intersection of Marrickville and Illawarra Roads, Marrickville, last night,…

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Police Launch in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 18

Considerable damage was done to the police launch Cub yesterday, when it collided with the Harbour Tr[?]st launch Scylla. Eight planks of the C[?]b were bent in, but the…

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Badly Holed in Harbor Collision

The Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 15

The starboard bow of the motorship John Bolton, which was beached near Rushcullers Bay this afternoon, after having been in collision with the trawler Bar-ea-mul…

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Injured at Table Tennis

Referee · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 10

FRED PERRYM, the English star of lawn tennis, is resting, on the advice of a specialist, because he is suffering from…

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Youth Critically Injured. Junee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 18

Edward James Russell, 19, a New Zealande[?], was critically injured at the Junee railway yards, and was admitted to hospital With the left side of his chest badly crushed…

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Beached in Harbor Motorship Badly Holed in Collision

The Sun · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 15

THE new motor ship, John Bolton, and the trawler Bareamul, figured in a serious collision off Fort…

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Miner Injured by Fall of Earth. Coolah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 18

William Edgar, an elderly married man, was seriously injured at the Mt. Stewart mine, Leadville, yesterday afternoon. While working on the 217 feet level a sudden fall of earth…

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Car Overturns. Man Killed; Three Others Injured. BATHURST

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 April 1933 · page 18

A man was killed and three men were injured to-night when a motor car in which they were travelling to Sydney overturned near Meadow Fiat, about 16 miles from Bathurst…

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