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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 187

Killed in Bus Accident Had Visited Brother's Grave Vehicle Swerved Across Road

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 8

YESTERDAY morning a woman was killed when returning home after having placed flowers on her brother's…

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A Review of SPORT be the EDITOR of the REFEREE J. C. Davis' Editorial Comment Why I Publish the Referee Cricket and Adam Lindsay Gordon's Poetic Dictum Maimed and Injured Grow In Numbers Day By Day "The rigour of the game."

Referee · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 13

IT was Adam Lindsay Gordon who wrote, "No game is worth a rap into which no, danger, no mishap," etc. That is so in gunies of the fields, which Gordon patronised. His game was, in the main, clearing the hurdles or fallen…

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Drowned in Surf Out of Bounds

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 1

CAUGHT in a channel while surfing outside the bathing area, Richard Bevan McAlister, 50, of Quandialla, N.S.W., was…

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Horse Trainer Injured. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 11

Harry Klug, horse trainer, employed on Mullengandra station, near Albury, suffered concussion and injuries to a shoulder when he was thrown from a racehorse, which he…

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Man Drowned in Bondi Surf. Caught in Channel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 13

Richard Bevan McAllster, 50, of Quandialla, who had taken a house in Kenneth-street, Bondi, to spend a holiday, was drowned in the surf yesterday…

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R.A.C.A. on Road Accident Causes

The Land · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 24

"BY a careful study of highway accidents, it is clearly seen that there is no single cause for them, nor is there any one remedy, says the…

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Fatal Accident

The St George Call · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 1

Albert Walter Custer (13), of Geroma Avenue, Carse Park, was riding a bicycle along Marine Drive, Brightone-le-Sands, on Saturday morning, when…

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Toll of the Road Killed in Lorry Accident Runaway Vehicle Gloucester

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 7

ONE man was killed another seriously injured when they jumped from a timber lorry loaded with logs after the brakes had failed…

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Second Accident At Smash Scene

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 7

A witness and a constable at the scene of an accident at Five Dock on January 16 were struck by a second car, the witness being injured seriously…

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Drowning in Surf. Mr. Curlewis's Comment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 10

Referring yesterday to the drowning at Bondi Beach on Thursday of Mr. Richard Bevan McAlister, 50, of Quandialla, the president of the Surf Life Saving Association of…

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Five Men Drowned in Steamer Collision. Tragedy Near Melbourne. One Vessel Sinks in Three Minutes. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 17

The Union Steam Ship Company's steamer Kakariki (887 tons) sank in three minutes after a collision with the Patrick Line freighter Caradale (1896 tons) off the Gellibrand Pile Light at 11.11 o'clock last night…

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Rescue by Boy of 14 Near Drowning in Surf

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 7

In saving Brian Keo. 10. from drowning 200 yards from the shore at Bondi yesterday, another schoolboy Jack Mayes, 14. nearly lost, his life…

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Casualties. Four Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 18

Four Sydney residents, who were motoring to Melbourne, were injured wnen a car overturned on the Hume Highway, near Wangaratta, early to-day…

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Mother and Infant Killed. Eight Others are Injured Car Over "Embankment. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 17

Mrs. Ena Newlands, 35, of Yetman, and her infant son, Douglas, were killed when a sedan car, driven by Roy Newlands, the woman's husband, crashed over a steep embankment…

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Boy Killed by Lorry Unusual Accident In Street

The Sun · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 1

A boy was killed and another seriously Injured in an unusual accident in ParramattR-road, Burwood, this afternoon…

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Gales Rage Ships Lost, Crews Drowned LONDON

Truth · Sunday 31 January 1937 · page 14

GALES and heavy seas continue in the North Sea, Atlantic and the Mediterranean. There has been widespread damage and many…

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Injured Lad Thought of Mate One Victim Is Dead

The Sun · Sunday 31 January 1937 · page 2

"Don't worry about me. Attend to the other fellow first," said nine-year-old Maurice John Fear, of York-avenue,…

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"Every Man for Himself" Captain's Dramatic Story Of Collision That Cost Five Lives MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 31 January 1937 · page 1

"It was every man for himself. We did not have much time to get clear, and in a few moments after the impact my men were struggling in the water all around me, and calling out to the lifeboats." In those words. Captain T. H. White, master of the sunken freighter Kakariki, to-day…

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15 Minutes Submerged Drowning Man Saved

The Sun · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 1

ALTHOUGH he was submerged in water for 15 minutes, Allan Lewer, 19, of Claremont-street, Matraville…

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Kakariki Sunk Collision With Caradale

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 5

Five lives were lost when the Patrick steamer Caradale collided with and sank the Union Steamship Company's steamer Kakariki…

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