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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 187

Fatal Motor Collision. One Killed; Five Injured. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 12

One man suffered injuries from which he died laterand five other persons were injured, when two motor cars collided head-on on the Melbourne-road, a mile and a half from…

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Conductor Injured. Accident Delays Traffic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 6

Tram traffic waa delayed in George-street North late yesterday afternoon when William Daniel, 32, tram conductor, of Elswick-street, Leichhardt, leaned from one tram and was…

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Rail Man Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 7

GOSFORD, Thursday.--While putting up signal poles at Point Clare this afternoon, Reginald Raynor (26), a railway linesman, of Five Dock, had…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 8

FOLLOWING a collision last night between his motor cycle and a car on Stoney Creek Road, Bexley. Frank Bevir, 20, of Morona Road,…

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Boy Killed in Collision. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 9

Alexander Henry Sivell, 15, a garage assistant, was killed this morning when he was struck by the shafts of a horse-drawn watercert owned by the municipal council and…

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Dragged Along Platform Schoolboy Seriously Injured CESSNOCK

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

BEFORE the eyes of horrified train Travellers; Patrick Hatton 14-year-old schoolboy, was hurled along Cessnock station…

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Man Drowned in N.Z. FLOODS Town's Main Street Like Canal Christchurch (N.z.)

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 14

At least one lite has been lost as a result of heavy floods in Southland Province after unseasonable rains. John Cuff. 35. was washed from his…

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Man Is Blown 50ft Into Air Second Fatality At Port Kembla In Fortnight Port Kembla

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

ONE man was killed and another had a narrow escape from being critically injured when a shot suddenly exploded…

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H.M.S. Royal Oak. Shelling Accidental. London, Feb. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 11

Britain agrees that the bursting of a shell from a loyalist anti-aircraft gun on the quarter-deck of H.M.S. Royal Oak during a rebel air raid on Valencia was accidental, and she…

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Bomb Kills Film Player. Accident in Battle Scene. HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 12

During the filming of a battle scene in "The Road Back" to-day, a bomb exploded unexpectedly on the universal lot, and George Daley, an extra, who was operating a machine…

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Lismore Accidents. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 9

Frederiek Cannon, farm labourer, employed by Mr. J. M. Cox, of Konorigan, last tile sight of his right eye through a piece of stone striking him while he was breaking…

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Britain Won't Protest Shelling Of Warship Accidental London

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 7

THE Admiralty officially states that it considers the shelling of the British battleship Royal Oak by a Government anti-aircraft gun to…

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Boxer Injured. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 21

Hughie Mehegan, who is regarded as the most promising lightweight boxer developed in Australia for more than a decade, broke his arm after falling from a horse at North…

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Child Saved From Drowning. Found at Bottom of Pool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 23

Marie McKee, aged 4, of Griffith, who was found lying on the sandy bottom of the harbour swimming pool at Manly yesterday, was resuscitated after long-sustained efforts by a…

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Man Drowned in River Body Not Recovered Albury

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 1

A young man, James Whelan, was drowned in the river at Wangaratta to-day He was a stranger to the district and only arrived a few days…

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Toll of the Road Killed by Car in Collision Motor Cyclist

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 8

ANOTHER motor-cycle accident had fatal results last night, when REX CONWAY, 18, of Cooper St., Strathfield, was killed instantly…

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Parkhill's Car And Tram In Collision

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 2

The Minister for Defence, Sir Archdale Parkhill, and Lady Parkhill had narrow escapes in Anzac-parade, Kensington,…

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Three Injured Tram and Cart Collide

Truth · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 17

A HORSE was killed and three people were injured last night in a collision at the corner of City-road and Coddrington-street,…

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Plucky Gunner Averts Crash Injured Stopping a Bolting Gun Team

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 18

The heroic action of an 18th Field Brigade gunner, J. Cortese, saved six of his comrades from injury, and possible death when a gun team of six…

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Anaesthetic in Street Unusual Accident

Truth · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 1

A SYDNEY Hospital doctor yesterday administered an anaesthetic to an elderly man in Hunter-street, Sydney…

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