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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

3,731 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 187

"Only One Way" Coroner on Prevention of Car Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 6

In a rider to his finding at the inquiry into the death, as the result of a motor accident, of Wilfred Roy Death. Grenfell's coroner, Mr A. A…

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Subway Accident At Valley Heights

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 3

A car, owned and driven by Mr Alick Jerome, and a motor cycle and sidecar, owned and driven by Mr Frederick J. Watson, of Orange,…

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Girl's Death Caused Accidentally. Murder Suspected at First. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 12

The Acting Deputy Coroner (Mr. H Grscey J.P.) found to-day, after an inquest at Yea into the death of Violet Webb, 19, telephonist, that the girl died from cerebral…

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Accidental Poisoning

The Propeller · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 2

Thinking a lotion for her son's foot was a mouthwash, Mrs. Mary Bowker Townsend, 36, of Woronora Rd., Como, died from poisoning in the…

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Apprentice Injured

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 6

The freighter Olivebank, outward bound, anchored in Watson's Bay this afternoon, and an apprentice named Cantle, whose hand had been badly…

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Girl Drowned In Disused Quarry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

Peggy Joan Tilley, 13, of Merriwa Street, Gordon, was drowned in a disused quarry at Pymble yesterday. She was paddling in the shallows…

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Injured at Swimming Baths

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 7

Slipping on some tiles at Rams gate swimming baths lost night. Miss McAlister, of Empress Street, Hurst ville, injured her left eye and left…

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Pensioner Injured. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 9

Henry Weston, 59, an invalid pensioner, was listening to the scores in the test match being given in Goulburn's main street when he was struck by a motor lorry. He received…

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Girl Drowned. Lost Grip of Float

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 11

Peggy Tilly, 13, of Merriwa-street, Gordon, was drowned in a water-hole in a quarry at Pymble yesterday, when she lost hold of a rubber float…

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Miner Is Injured Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 8

When he was struck by a piece or timber while it work at Aberdare Central colliery, James Barrett, 36, wheeler, of Halcyon Street, Cassnock, had his pelvis…

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No One Was Drowned Clothing Mystery Is Solved

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 10

Clothing of four boys is awaiting claimants in Balmain police station to-day, and a tragedy feared has dissolved into comedy…

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Girl Drowned in Quarry Playmates Witness Tragedy Out of Depth

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

GETTING out of her depth while playing in a water hole in the old, disused Kuringgai Quarry, at Pymble,…

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Cars Collide at Chullora Man and Woman Are Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 8

COLLISION between two motor cars on Liverpool Road, Chullora, last night resulted in FRANCIS DAY, about 50, of Calrd's Avenue,…

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4 Boys Believed Drowned Clothes Found in Park Police Drag Water No Trace

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

FEARS are held that four boys have been drowned following the discovery of clothing in Leichhardt Park, near Long…

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Accident

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

Thomas Gaunt, 13, of Woniora Rd., Hurstville, met with an accident when the bike he was riding along Kingsgrove Road, fell over, throwing him…

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Not Drowning Cases

The Labor Daily · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 1

Police surmises that the discovery of-the clothing of four boys in Leichhardt Park, near Long Core Bay, last Thursday night indicated…

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Girl, 10, Saves Drowning Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 2

UNANDERRA, Friday.--Beryl Clark, 10, rescued her 7-year-old playmate, James Conway, from drowning yesterday…

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Child Drowned; Body Not Found

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Douglas Tuckwell, aged about 7, of Port Kembla, was drowned this afternoon when he fell from the northern breakwater…

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Convalescent : Was Injured Again

The Labor Daily · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 5

GEORGE KIDSON, of Millhill Rd., Waverley, received lacerated wounds to the left elbow, fractured ribs and severe shock when knocked…

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Harbour Accidents. Doctors Called to Ships. Injured Man Lowered by Derrick

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 17

A ship's derrick had to be used to lower an injured man into a launch from the fielghter Dalmore yesterday morning. The vessel was at anchor in Athol Bight, waiting to transfer…

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