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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 187

Brothers Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

Two brothers were injured when the car in which they were travelling overturned on the Liverpool-road, Cabramatta, on Saturday afternoon…

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Drowning Tragedy. Second Body Recovered. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 17

Following the recovery of the body of Lars Rasmussen, 21, able seaman, near Fort Germein, on Friday, the body of Axel Harry Lindquist, 21, ship's carpenter, was found washed…

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Motor Accidents. Woman Killed. Thrown From Truck in Collision. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 10

Matilda Victoria Pearson, an aged woman, of Crown-street, Wollongong, was killed this evening as a result of a collision between a motor lorry and a car at the intersection of…

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Baby Drowned in Waterhole Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

Phillip Healy, 20 months, or west Nundah, was found drowned in a waterhole yesterday…

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Some Recover, Others Die Coroner Puzzled By Drowning Cases

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

The failure of resuscitation methods on people who have not been long under water was referred to to-day by the Coroner (Mr. Oram)…

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Warship and Steamer in Collision London

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

THE battleship Malaya collided with the Dutch steamer Kertosono in a heavy fog off the coast of Portugal. The Malaya stood by the merchant…

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Man Drowned in River Inmate of Mental Hospital

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

AN inmate of the Parramatta Mental Hospital, James Miller, 76, was drowned yesterday afternoon when, after stripping off his…

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Warship in Collision With Dutch Steamer. LONDON, Feb. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 10

The British £3,000,000 battleship Malaya, which left Devonport on December 31 after a three years refit, which cost £1,000,000, collided in a thick fog off Oporto with the…

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Injured in Fall at Church Katoomba

The Sun · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 15

Leaving St. Hilda's. Church of England, Katoomba, to-day, Mrs. Ethel Bell, of Summer-street, Bankstown, fell down the steps and fractured a…

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Toll of the Road Woman Killed In Collision Thrown From Lorry

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

WHEN two women were thrown from the cab of a motor lorry that came into collision with a car in Wollongong last night, one of them was killed and the other suffered a fractured skull. Many persons were injured in smashes over the…

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Airman Feared a Fire Injured, But Jumped To Safety

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

ANOTHER 'plane crash was almost attended with fatal results at Kingsford Smith Aerodrome, Mascot, yesterday…

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Grammar School Rowing Coach. Mr. A. T. Stewart Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 13

Mr. Alan T. Stewart, coach of the Sydney Grammar School Eight, which is in the early stages of its preparation for the "Head of the River" race on May 1, met with a painful…

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Two Are Killed on Line Accidents Near Taree And Wollongong Men Run Down

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 1

IN two instances men met their deaths under the Wheels of trains during the week-end, one being mutilated near…

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Motorist Injured in Collision Gosford

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 1

Harry Kosky, of Portland [?] Rose Bay, suffered a dislocated shoulder and complicated compound fractures of the upper and lower arms…

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Diving Fatality. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 11

Mrs. Claude Weatherstone, 22, of Parkesbourne, near Goulburn, who was injured while diving in the Murrumbidgee River at Pine Island, a picnic resort, near Canberra, on…

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Council Employee Injured. [?]Ega

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 9

Harold Bylton, Bega Council employee, was lopping a tree when he fell to the ground. He was taken to the district hospital by the ambulance and admitted with injuries to the…

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Peisoner Injured in Cell. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 9

William Gordon, 29, labourer, who is in the Dubbo Gaol awaiting his trial on a charge of having committed a capital offence, was found bleeding at the wrists in his cell on…

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Ship Collision. Counsel's Demand. Salvaged Documents. Marine Court Inquiry. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 12

Newspaper reports that a diver had recovered documents from the wreck of the Karariki engaged the attention to-day of the Marine Court, which is…

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Boy Lost Life for His Scooter Drowned in Rush of Water

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 2

IN an attempt to recover his scooter, a Christmas present from his mother, David Ashton Ackers, 6, of Cardigan…

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Cannon Ball Is Blamed Woman Says She Was Injured While In Park Trustees Sued

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 1

THE Trustees of Ashton Pork, including a knight, a member of Parliament, and a prominent surgeon, were proceeded against in the…

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