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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Nearly Drowned

The Biz · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

While fishing at Gunnamatta Bay, the popular bootman of Cabramatta, had a narrow escape from drowning, when a southerly buster dashed his boat against…

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Casualties. Boys Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 12

Colin Carmichael, 14, of Beauchamp-street, West Marrickville, fell while playing in the grounds of the Cleveland-street Public School yesterday, and fractured his right arm. He…

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An Drowned at Sans Souci

The St George Call · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

About 3.30 p.m. on the 26th inst., Donald James Byrnes, 38, labourer, of 27 Park Avenue, Mascot, was found in Sans Souci Baths drowned. The St…

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Injured in Motor Smash

The Biz · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Williams, of Harold-street Fairfield, were involved in a head-on collision in their motor cycle [?]n Monday. with a motor car at Bass…

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Injured When Bike Skidded

The St George Call · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

When his bicycle skidded as he reached the fool of the steep hill in Knight Street. Arncliffe. Arthur Adams. 5. of Spring Sired. Arncliffe, was thrown…

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Boy Injured in Playground

The Labor Daily · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 7

When he fell while running in the Playground at the Clevela [?] Street Public School yesterday, Colin Carmichael, 14, of Beau [?]amp. Street,…

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Painter Injured in Fall Cootamundra

The Labor Daily · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 14

T. White, a Cootamundra railway employee, was painting a tank at Milvale to-day when a gust of wind brought him and a ladder to the…

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Fall of Stone Two Men Injured in Victorian Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--While J. Bromley and W. Wilding, miners, of Harrletville, were trying a prospect in one of the stopes of the Liffey…

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Vice Royal Can Be Regarded As An Unlikely Starter In Anniversary INJURED On Wednesday at Randwick

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

W. Booth stated at Victoria Park yesterday that Vice Royal injured himself during the running of the January…

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Unusual Accident. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 12

Alan Campbell, 28, was working on sewerage construction in the yard of a Casino residence, when a pick he was using was caught in a clothes-line. The point of the pick struck…

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Car Accident

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 9

I would like to point out that the car concerned in the fatal accident at Longueville on December 16 was not a taxi-cab, and that the driver…

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Launch Accident

The St George Call · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

Maisi[?] Kirby, ad her hair entangled the propeller shaft, of a launch in Botany Bay last Monday, while on a fishing excursion with her father. She…

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Man Is Drowned

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 5

SWIMMING in Cook's River at Canterbury yesterday. Edward Berry Purcell, 45, a married returned soldier, of Canterbury Road…

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Motor Cyclist's Death Inquest on Lapstone Fatality

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 8

That Ian Livingstone Ramsay died in Nepean District Hospital on 21st January from a fracture of the skull accidentally receives on the night…

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Fall From Train. Nurse Critically Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 17

Shocking injures were suffered by Miss Audrey Knight, 2[?], when she fell from a passenger train between Sydenham and Tempe yesterday morning. Her skull was…

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Solfas Has Injured Near Fetlock Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 2

The Sydney filly, Solfast, is suffering from a jarred near fore fetlock, and her trainer, J. Donohoe, fears that she may be unable to fulfil any of hor Autumn engagements…

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Bed Shortage in Hospital. Transference of Injured Youth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 16

The secretary of St. George District Hospital (Mr. C. D..McIntyre), referring to the death of an injured youth, has informed the Hurstville Council that the shortage of beds…

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Nurse Is Terribly Injured Scalp Almost Torn Off Fall From Train

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 5

TERRIBLE injuries were suffered by Audrey Knight, 24, nurse, of Clarence Street, North Sydney, when she collapsed…

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Lad's Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 1

Ronald Knight (14), nephew of Mr H. Woolven, of Orchard Hills, with whom he has been staying, suffered severe injury to an ankle owing to the…

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Woman, Man Shot Accidentally Loaded Rifle Knocked Over at Dudley

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--A woman was shot in the left leg and a man in the left hand when a loaded rifle was accidentally knocked over at…

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