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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Rescue Attempt Fails Man Drowned in Wagga Waterhole

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 8

WAGGA, Sunday.-- Charles Maxwell, 25, of Albury, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee at Wagga this afternoon…

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Clung to Boat After Wreck Three Saved; Four Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 7

BRISBANE, Sunday.--No trace was found to-day of the bodies of the four young men who were swept off the sailing boat Romp, which…

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Rider Injured Pony Bolts After Track Work

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 9

Bolting from the gates at Kensington racecourse this morning after exercise, the racing pony Rosette galloped along the tramlines in…

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Postal Employee Injured Car and Cycle Collide

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 4

At the corner of Church and Pennant streets, Parramatta. this morning, a motor cycle and sldecar belonging to the Postal Department driven by a man…

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Car Over Bridge. Driver Seriously Injured. ALBURY

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

George D. Culley, 35, inspector for an insurance company, living at Wagga, received serious injuries when the car he was driving failed to negotiate a turn on the overhead…

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Bomb Explosion. Two Moslems Injured. CALCUTTA, Jan. 7

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

Two Moslems were seriously injured in a bomb explosion at Delhi, near the Jama Masjid, the biggest mosque in India. One man kicked a parcel lying on the road containing a bomb…

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His Last Dive Was Fatal Man Drowned; Hit Head on Log

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 7

"Just a last dive" in the swimming pool near his father's dairy at Jilli- by, near Wyong, on Saturday cost Alan Smith (32) his life…

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Four Believed Drowned Yacht Capsizes in North Three Rescued Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 1

FOUR persons are missing, and it is believed they have been drowned, following the capsize in a heavy sea of a 22-foot yacht. The…

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Motor Cyclists Injured One Dies in Hospital Maitland

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 8

His skull fractured in a motorcycle smash on the Maitland Road, near Greta, at 1 a.m. yesterday, Archibald Thredgate, 21, of Wyndhain…

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Fan Falls From Theatre Roof Three Injured at City Pantomime

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 7

Three people were injured when an electric fan, weighing nearly 70lb., crashed 30ft. from the roof during Saturday's matinee of Jim Gerald's…

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Policeman Hit with Fast Ball Seriously Injured in Cricket Match

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- While playing cricket to-day Constable Norman Howard (26), of Clifton Hill, was struck over the heart, by the hall…

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Weaver Gets Drowned in Some Big Talk Flounders Out of His Depth in Attack on Fed. Govt. Cancer Work Commonwealth Is Not Connected with Matter

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 5

THE Minister for Health, Mr. Weaver, seems to have got things a bit mixed in his comments in a Sunday paper on the…

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Boy Shot Dead. Gun Accidentally Explodes. LISMORE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 9

William Alfred Lang, 14, son of Mr. Alexander Lang, of Lismore, was accidentally shot dead yesterday afternoon. With two other boys, Lang was on a…

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Accident Victim Dies. Murwillumbah

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

Leonard Raymond Downes, 22, who was injured in a car smash at Stott's Creek last Sunday, died to hospital at Murwillumbah last night…

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Harbour Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 8

A Court of Marine inquiry yesterday heard evidence relating to a collision between the A.U.S.N. steamer Mildura (3359 tons gross) and the Bellambi Coal Company's vessel…

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Bathing Fatality. Wyong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 12

Allan Smith, 32, a dairyman, who lived at Jilliby, went swimming on Saturday evening. He dived into a swimming hole which had been constructed, and which was believed…

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Marine Court Inquiry Mildura-bellambi Collision

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 5

An investigation by the Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry into the circumstances of the collision between the Mildura, 3350 tons, and the…

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Country News. Man Drowned. Temora

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 12

Vivian Wicht, 23, of Springdale, was found drowned in a dam on his father's property last night. His clothes were noticed on the bank at 7 o'clock, and two and a half hours…

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Woman Severely Injured. Yass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 12

As a result of a motor accident near Bookham on Saturday, Miss May Griffiths, matron of the hospital at Warrnambool (Vic.), had her left arm nearly severed. She was travelling…

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Crowd Powerless Woman Drowned In Undertow AUCKLAND

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 12

While a crowd of holiday-makers looked on, powerless to help, Alice Wilson, 38, bathing alone, was caught in a fierce undertow at Karekare and…

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