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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

3,472 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 174

Port Bowen Blamed. Collision on River Scheldt

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 5

The Netherlands Court of Navigation at Amsterdam has delivered judgment in the inquiry concerning a collision between the…

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Memorial Fond for Drowned Boy. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 12

One thousand persons have subscribed to a shilling fund to commemorate the bravery of the McCaughcy boys, one of whom lost his life in going to the rescue of persons in difficulties…

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Injured While Chopping Wood. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 12

While chopping wood at Mooball. William Gartner sustained a large wound in the left foot when the axe slipped…

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Hit by Boomerang. American Tourist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 11

Mr. Jay Douglas, an American tourist who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the liner Lurline, will have unpleasant memories of his introduction to the Australian aborigines…

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Car and Cycle in Collision Woman's Skull Is Fractured

The Labor Daily · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 5

While driving three of her fellow teachers home from school yesterday afternoon in a motor car, Edith Mony, 30 a school…

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Pinned Under Car Parramatta Men in Crash One Fatally Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 4

In a motor crash which occurred on the Western-road, near Prospect, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, three…

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Northern Line Puffs Distressing Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 10

Miss Epsy Cox, aged 18, a resident of Epping-avenue, Epping, met with a distressing accident at few days ago. She was riding a horse in Chatham-road,…

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January Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 18

According to an accident check kept by the N.R.M.A. Safety Department, 24 persons were killed and 147 injured in road smashes involving motor vehicles…

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Pig Causes Accident. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 12

Councillor P. Matthews, of Tomki Shire, was driving a load of pigs in a springcart, when one bumped him off the scat, and he fell heavily to the roadway, suffering a deep cut…

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Victim of Accident

The Labor Daily · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 5

It was reported last night that the condition of Frank Wall, 7, of Arabella Street, Longueville, who was admitted to Royal North Shore…

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Interference Plentiful "Accidental," Say Stewards at Victoria Pk

The Labor Daily · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 2

Untoward happenings just as the barrier rose and during the running of the races were frequent at Victoria Park yesterday, and the stipendiary stewards…

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Parramatta Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 1

Knocked down by a motor cycle in Church Street, Parramatta, last night May Andrews (25), of Pemberton Street, Parramatta, received scalp…

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Shot by Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 February 1934 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Mrs. Mary Ann Muir (45), wife of Taylor Muir, the noted duck-shooter, was fatally injured to-day, when a…

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Accidents of the Week. Cyclist Injured, in Collision

The Propeller · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

While riding a bicycle along Forest Road, Arncliffe, at 11.45 last night, William Patterson, tram driver, of Abercorn Street, Bexley, came into…

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400 DROWNED. Chinese Vessel Sinks

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 5

Messages from Hankow state that when the Chinese river steamer Fuyuen capsized and sank, 20 miles below Hankow, recently, over 400…

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Casualties. Boy Critically Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 12

Edward Brick, 7, of Chiltern-road, Willoughby, was playing with another child in High-street, near his home, yesterday, when he was knocked down by a motor cycle and…

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Injured by an Axe

The Propeller · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon a man named Ball was chopping wood at Menai when the axe slipped and gashed his right ankle. He was removed to his…

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Action Over Motor Collision. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 12

At the Orange District Court, before Judge Barton and a jury, Robert Albert Gray and James Phillip Gray, of Neville, sued R. M. Worrad, storekeeper, of Orange for damages…

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Aeroplane Falls in River. Two Airmen Drowned

The Propeller · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 2

Two airmen were drowned when their plane crashed from a height of 200 feet into Cook's River, near the North Brighton Golf Links, last Saturday…

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Brutal Attack. Six Men Raid Hotel. Publican and Wife Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 11

The licensee of the Lalla Rookh Hotel, City-road, Darlington, and his wife were brutally attacked by six men, who raided the hotel late last night. A boarder and a bannan were…

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