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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 160

Clergyman Drowned. Adelaide

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

Swept into deep water by the backwasn or a large breaker at Port Noarlunga this afternoon, the Rev. C. A. Weibusch, 60. Lutheran minister of Gawler, was drowned. The body…

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Plucky Constable Saves Man from Drowning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 13

Constable Drury, of the Clarence-street police, leaped over the Pyrmont Bridge last night to save a man who was in difficulties in the water below…

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Boy Fatally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 13

Jeffrey Dunbar, 6, of Victoria-parade, Manly, was fatally injured last evening, when he was run over by a taxi-cab in Darley-road, between Victoria-parade and Ashburner-street…

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Dutchie Seriously Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 2

JUNEE, Wednesday.-- Two Victorian horses, Dutchie and Nut Cup, had to be taken off the train at Junee, as it was found that the…

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Miner Injured. Lithgow

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

George Thorn, a wheeler, sustained a fractured wrist at the State mine, when his arm became jammed between a prop and a skip yesterday. He was taken by the ambulance to…

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Boy Hero Cabramatta Drowning Tried to Save Mate

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 7

Heroism of a ten-year-old boy was the feature of a drowning tragedy at Canley Vale on Monday. When Jack O'Brien (13), of…

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Fred Lowden Injured Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 5

When rushing across from the Miners Hall, Wollongong to the railway station on Monday, to meet a member of the Miners, Federation…

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Sank Unseen Man Drowned in Domain Baths

The Sun · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 13

In the presence of hundreds of swimmers, John Bowden Randall, 21, of Marrickville, was drowned this afternoon in the Domain Baths…

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Boy Is Killed by Taxi Cab Manly Street Fatality

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 5

WHEN the front left-hand wheel of a taxi cab passed over him in Darley Road Manly, last night. Geoffrey Dunbar, 6, of Victoria…

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Boy Drowned Was Frightened And Ran "Chinaman Not to Blame"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 4

Going to Duck Creek with a number of other boys on December 20 to gather maiden-hair fern, Keith Humphries, aged 12, of…

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Arm Broken Wentworthville Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 7

A Wentworthville boy broke his arm in a fall from a tree on Friday. Mack Lyons (7), of Smith-street, was descending from a tree when he slipped…

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Meatworks' Accident Merrylands Man Hurt

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 7

A Merrylands man suffered painful injuries in an accident at the State Abbatoirs at Homebush on Thursday. James Joseph Donnellan (38), of…

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Pilot's Death. Aeroplane Accident at Windsor. WINDSOR

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

An inquest was held at Windsor to-day by the District Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston) into the death of Flying-officer Charles Middleton Blamey, the son of the Chief…

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Explosion Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Alfred Hubbard, a miner, had his hands blown off this morning at Alexandra by the explosion of a box of…

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Accidents of the Week. Collision at Hurstville

The Propeller · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4

A collision occurred on Tuesday morning at the intersection of Cross Street and Park Road, Hurstville, between a motor van driven by Osman…

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Boxer Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 8

Whipped up by squally winds, rough seas were responsible for many casualties on Sydney's beaches yesterday. Togo Young, a boxer, is…

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Drowned in the Baths

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 7

THOUGH other men were swimming close by, and hundreds were looking on, John Bowden Randall 21, of…

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Injured While Bathing

The Propeller · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4

Jean Coulstock, aged six years, residing with her parents in Culwulla Street, Hurstville, was bathing at Carss Park, Blakchurst, yesterday, and when…

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Car and Sulky in Collision

The Propeller · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4

A motor car and sulky collided in Alston Street, Bexley, late last Saturday night. The sulky was overturned, the three occupants being thrown to…

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CONCUSSION Boxer Injured In Training

The Sun · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 10

During a training bout at Brown s gymnasium, Flinders-street, this afternoon, Royce McGrath, a prominent welterweight boxer, received a…

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