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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 159

Footballer Is Fined £1 Car Was Involved In Collision

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 9

International Rugby Union forward Aubrey John Hodgson was convicted at Manly Court to-day for having driven a car negligently at Seaforth…

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Won Medals for Swimming Found Drowned the Entrance

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 1

THE mother and father of Leonard Orr, who was found drownd near Killarney, Tuggerah Lakes, on January 12, state he was a winner…

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Turf Notes. From Stable and Course. Injured Jockeys

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 15

Reports last night from the home of the injured jockey K. Cook were that his condition showed steady improvement. He was still unconscious in St. Vincent's private…

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Heavy Flood Damage Waters Swirl Round Northern Towns Dramatic Rescues Of Many Marooned Families; Man Drowned

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 1

Flood waters are to-day swirling over large areas on the North Coast, causing thousands of pounds damage. One man has been drowned, hundreds of cattle have been swept away and many crops ruined…

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Toll Of The Road Two More Fatal Accidents Man & Schoolboy In Smashes LORRY & CYCLE

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 5

A MAN was killed when a motor lorry and a bicycle collided at Aiken's Road, West Pennant Hills, yesterday morning. The cyclist,…

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Death of Jockey Accident Everything Done to Save His Life

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 8

A FINDING of accidental death was given at yesterday's resumed inquest on the death of jockey Max Papworth…

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Injured Jockeys Improved

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 24

Jockey Keith Cook is making gradual progress since his fall at Canterbury races. His periods of consciousness are…

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Drowning Ends Thirsty Ordeal Mt. Isa

The Sun · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 1

Hans . Zeshwan, a well-known prospector of the Gulf country, aged 76, has died in tragic circumstances…

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Fire in Garage. Boy Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 17

Arthur Byrne, 15, of Kenilworth Street, Waverley, was burned about the right hand last night when a fire broke out in a garage in Cowper Street, Waverley…

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Explosion of Cartridge. Two Youths Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 12

Two youths were injured last night at Glebe, when a cartridge, which one of them had found, exploded. James Gough, 15, of St. John's Avenue,…

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200 Civilians Slaughtered in Spanish Air Butchery Huge Torpedoes Dropped on Women, Children 1200 Injured; Death Roll Likely To Grow LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 1

TWO hundred people, more than half of them women and children, were killed at Barcelona in the most ghastly rebel air raid of the civil war…

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Fatal Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 6

The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics recently issued figures covering fatal accidents in Australia for 1936. These shed rather a new light on the motor vehicle as…

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Spotlight on Society N.Z. authoress on way to England . . . Celebrations guests arrive by Awatea today . . . Norwegian Consul-General and wife off to Norway . . . Christening of daughter to-morrow . . . Her 39th trip to Australia ... In hospital after motor accident

The Sun · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 9

TWO popular members of Sydney's Consular Corps, the Consul-General for Norway and Madame Fay, will sail in the Norwegian freighter,…

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Kirkwood Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 18

CALCUTTA, Frdiay.--Joe Kirkwood, Australian-American golfer, broke a small bone in his shoulder during a trick-shot exhibition at Royal Calcutta Golf Club…

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Injured In Crash

The Sun · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 9

Following a collision between a motor-cycle and a milk-cart in King- street. Newtown, last night. Robert George Hunter, 22. of Centre-street,…

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Old Man Drowned. Boorowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 8

A week's search by police and local residents ended to-day with the finding at the body of William Wardell[?] [?] old-age pensioner, in the river. A weight was tied to [?]…

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J. H. Kirkwood Injured. Calcutta, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 16

The golfer J. H. Kirkwood broke a small bone in a shoulder during a trick golf shot at an exhibition at the Royal Calcutta Club…

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Collision in Mid-air. Three Persons Killed. LONDON, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 11

Three people were killed when a Royal Air Force machine collided with a, civil aircraft in Hertfordshire. The civil plane was a training machine…

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Buffalo Hunter's Fortitude. Three Accidents in Three Days. Made Fortune From Hides. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 17

Tom Cole, a well-known buffalo shooter, arrived in town during the week with a slight limp. Questioned about the injury, he explained that his horse had slipped on a wet…

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Remarkable Accidents

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 7

OF recent years there have been a host of remarkable accidents in and around Brisbane, and in other parts of…

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