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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 187

Toll of the Road Car and Tram in Collision Scene Of Accident Described As Death Trap Man Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 5

INJURED in a collision between his car and a tram at Macpherson and Albion Streets. Waverley, yesterday, ERNEST GRAHAM, 28,…

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Driver Charged: Fatal Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 7

BATHURST, Monday.--Ernest William Kummerfield, 30, was remanded until Monday on a charge of having maliciously and feloniously slain James…

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Man, Drowned. Dungog

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 9

The body of Gordon Liller, of Kurri Kurri, who was drowned in the river at Bandon Grove yesterday afternoon, was taken to Kurri to-day tor burial. An inquest will be held…

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Hurdle Jockey Injured

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 2

HURDLE Jockey A. Gough met with a nasty accident at Randwick yesterday morning. While. schooling Ranchero over the "pony" hurdles,…

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Drowned in Weir: Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

Leonard Crapp, 28, married, of Doncaster, was drowned when a flat bottomed boat capsized and sank in the Eldon weir at Big River yesterday…

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Victim of Collision Dies. Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 9

Jack Louttit, 28, who was injured in a collision between a motor car and a truck about six miles south of Moruya on Thursday, died on Saturday…

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Complaint by Skipper 18-Footer Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 18

Mr. T. Tait, skipper of the 18-footer Springbok, complained at last night's meeting of the Flying Squadron that no reference to a mishap between his…

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Collision in Air; No Crash Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 7

IT was revealed today that two Air Force Hawker Demon planes struck each other in the air over Woodside…

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Drowned on Way to Party Cricketer's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 8

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday.--E. J. Dunning, 24, was drowned at Murray's Bay last night. A cricketers' party was being held…

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N.Z. Cricketer Drowned Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 6

Tragedy followed a farewell gathering of a party of cricketers to honor J. L. Oowle on the eve of his departure with the New Zealand…

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Dual Control in Use 'Plane Fatality Finding MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 12

That the fatal 'plane accident at Essendon on January 30, was caused by one of the pilots allowing the machine to go into a spin at an altitude…

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Cricketer Drowned. Tragic End to Picnic. Auckland (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 12

Edward J. Dunning, 24, a representative cricket player for Auckland, was drowned, when a dinghy sank in Murray's Bay last night…

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Accidental Death. Penrith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 9

A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest held at Liverpool by Mr. P. S. Poolman. coroner, on the death of William James Hanson, 43, company manage, who…

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Bernard O'reilly In Minor Motor Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 12

Mr. Bernard O'Reilly, who found the wrecked Stinson air liner, was a passenger in a motor car which was involved in a collision in Castlereagh-strcet, city, last night. No…

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Merle Oberon Injured in Car Accident. LONDON, March 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 16

Merle Oberon, the Australian film actress, was involved in a car collision. She suffered cu[?] and slight shock…

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Pilots Blamed. Essendon Plane Fatality. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 16

The Air Accidents Investigation Committee has found that the fatal aeroplane accident at Essendon on January 30, when Messrs. E. Wridgway and I. C. K. McKenzie were…

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Ice Cream Lorry in Collision. Treat for Children

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 16

Cans of ice cream which were thrown on to the road from a lorry which was involved in an accident at the intersection of Albion and Crown streets Surry Hills, yesterday,…

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Explosion at Mascot Two Men Critically Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 15

With a terrific roar an oxy-acetylene container exploded at the de Havilland Aircraft Pty.'s hangar at the Kingsford Smith aerodrome…

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Anxious About Her Face Merle Oberon After Collision LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 17

"Is my face disfigured?" Merle Oberon, the Australian film star, anxiously asked the doctors who treated her at Middlesex Hospital…

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Claim by Injured Seaman Legal Posers During Hearing Of Case

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

WHEN a seaman "signs off" a vessel, does his signature release the owners from wages claims only, or does it also release them…

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