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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 159

Causes in No. 7 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Maxwell and jury.) Accident in Timber Yard. Goransson v National Box Company Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 7

Charles Francis Frederick Goransson, 50, of Howe Street, Balmain, sued the National Box Company Ltd. for £3,000 damages for injuries received by him when he was struck…

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Reducing Shock Accidents

The Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 3

The County Council having begun its huge task of inspecting all electrical appliances to detect faulty…

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"Lost Memory" After Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 7

With his mind a blank, an ex-soldier found himself successively at Wollongong and Newcastle, not knowing why he was there, he said in evidence…

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Injured Jaw on Fish! Peculiar Accident to Child Darwin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 1

THE 12-years-old daughter of Tom Flynn was brought down from the Rum Jungle by the railroad yesterday, and was immediately…

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Car Skids Over Embankment Four Occupants Are Injured Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 7

When rounding a sharp turn on the main Sydney Road, two south of Wyong, this afternoon, a motor car skidded and crashed over…

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Man and Two Women Injured. Car Crashed Through Fence. GOSFOIID

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 23

One man and two women were severely injured when a sedan car, returning from Gosford races to Newcastle to-night, ran off the road at a sharp bend near Tuggerah. It…

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Accident at Lismore. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 15

Two occupants of a training plane, belonging to the Northern New South Wales Aero Club were fortunate to escape serious injury this morning, when the machine "propped"…

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Judge in Tram Accident

The Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 1

Judge Curlewis was thrown from a moving tram last night and was unable to preside at the…

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Three Priests in Court Sequel to Car Accident

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 6

THREE priests figured in a case before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury in the Causes Court yesterday --the first as a defendant; the…

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Speed Boats in Collision

The Propeller · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 6

In a speedboat race for boats steered by women on the Kogarah Bay course last Saturday afternoon, Ripple and Tresbon collided, Tresbon…

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Drowned at Lake Parramatta

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 16

Ray Austin, of Woodville-road, Merryland recovered the body. of Harold Rupert Const (47), of St. John's-road, Glebe, who was drowned at Lake Parramatta…

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Injured While Diving

The Propeller · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 3

When Maurice Shore, of Bexley, dived from a springboard at the Austinmer baths last Saturday, he struck his head against the side of the baths…

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Injured by Bicycle

The Propeller · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 3

Florence Cook, of George Street, Mortdale, was knocked down by a bicycle in that street last Friday. She suffered a fractured left collarbone,…

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Bread Carter Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 3

Thomas Markham, of Barden St., Arncliffe, received injuries to the left shoulder last Thursday morning when the baker's cart he was driving in…

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Judge Curlewis Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 10

Judge Curlewis was alighting from a tram at the intersection of King and George Streets on Tuesday night when he slipped and fell, injuring a leg. He was unable to…

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Boy Drowned "Dangerous Water-hole"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 15

The vicinity of a water hole in Duke River near killeen-street, Auburn. where Kenneth Middleton (8) was accidentally drowned on February 25, was dangerous…

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Injured at New Building

The Propeller · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 3

Last Thursday afternoon Mr. J. Ollason, of Hampden Street, Hurstville, stepped off a floor joist in a new building in Stapled Street, Bexley…

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Roof Collapses. Three Workmen Injured. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 8

When a roof they were repairing at the East End market collapsed this morning three persons fell 30ft and were injured. A boy, who fell through the roof at the same time…

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Miner Killed by Fall Second Fatality in Two Days Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 7

ROBERT MULLINS, 54, of Turner Street, Waratah, a miner, was killed instantly this morning when he was struck on the head by a fall…

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Accidents of the Week. Alleged Hit-run Driver

The Propeller · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 3

Neville Milne, aged 16 years, of Belmore Road, Hurstville, was returning home from the pictures with several companions in Belmore Road,…

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