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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 159

Artist Settles for £1450 Widow's Suit Over Car Fatality MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 3

W. B. Mclnnes, a leading portrait artist and winner of Archibald Prizes, settled for £1450 and statutory payments a £5000 action against him…

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Toll Of The Road Motorist Fatally Injured Many Serious In Hospital COLLISIONS

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 1

WHILE only one death was reported during the week-end as the result of road accidents a number of persons were…

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Arrival of Empress of Britain — Two Planes in Collision at Mascot — Academy of Art Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 14

With tugs in attendance, the huge tourist liner, the Empress of Britain, was manoeuvred slowly to her berth at Woolloomooloo on Saturday…

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Accident Danger at New Bridge

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 1

The danger of accidents possibly to school children crossing a bridge recently constructed by Blacktown Council at Mount Druit road, was pointed…

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Road Accidents. Car Dives Over Bridge. Saved by Water Pipe. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 12

A motor car, which somersaulted as it ran through thc railings of a bridge near the Cross Roads, Bush Creek, last night, landed on its roof on an 18-inch…

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Planes Collide on Ground. Accident at Mascot. Six Persons Escape Injury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 8

When two acroplanes collided at the Kingsford Smith acrodrome, Mascot, on Saturday afternoon, both machines were badly damaged, and…

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Drowned While Fishing AUCKLAND

The Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 3

When a launch party was fishing off the mouth of the Manawatu River, C. Laird, married, was washed…

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Pet Dog Visits Injured Singer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Miss Gladys Moncrieff, who was seriously injured in a car accident last week, continues to show improvement…

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Man Killed. Three Others Injured. Rail Trolly Strikes Cow. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 13

A man was killed and three others injured when a rail trolly, travelling between Lynbrook and Bullock Creek, on the Etheridge Line, North…

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£1450 to Be Paid by Artist £5000 Claim Of Widow Is Settled Car Fatality Melbourne, Mon

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 1

LEADING portrait artist, W. B. McInnes, agreed in the Banco Court to-day to settle for £1450 and statutory payments a…

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Artist Pays £1,450 to Widow. Court Claim Settled. Death of Husband in Accident. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 13

The Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Mann, was informed in the First Civil Court to-day that a settlement had been arrived at in the action brought by Annie Lowrey, of Greeves Street…

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Bendigo Mining Fatality

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 19

The case backed by the A.W.U. on behalf of Mrs. E. M. Wilkinson, claiming £5000 damages from the Carshalton (B.M.L.) Gold Mining Co., N.L.,…

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Jockey Injured Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 28

J. Clarke fractured a bone in the left ankle when Lady Dallas reared and fell on him in the mounting yard at Kyneton races to-day, prior…

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Balmain Boy Drowned Raft Capsized On Harbor

The Sun · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 9

Two crying children revealed to two woodchoppers today the body of Eric McInnes, 7, of Ann-street, Balmain. floating a few yards from…

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Sudden Death in Dark Drowning Of 19 Was Misadventure AUCKLAND

The Sun · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 7

Death by misadventure due to phenomenal flooding of a stream which occurred suddenly during darkness, was the inquest finding on 19 persons…

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Toll Of The Road Truck Victim Identified Others Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 5

THE man who was killed by a utility truck in Parramatta Road, Camperdown on Monday night, was identified yesterday as George Taylor,-about 45, a gardener, of the Salvation Army Hostel, Foster Street, City…

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Amphibian Turns Over. Crash on Alighting. Two Pilots Injured. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 17

Failure to wind up the landing wheels of the Cutty Sark, an amphibian which is used by Qantas Empire Airways to train pilots for the new Empire…

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Plane Somersaults In River As Wheels Jam: Two Injured BRISBANE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 1

WHEN its landing wheels failed to wind up, the Cutty Sark amphibian somersaulted in Brisbane River today. Two of the three Air Force officers aboard were injured…

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Boy Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 8

The body of Eric McInnes. 7. of Ann Street. Balmain, was found floating off Stephen's wharf, Balmain, yesterday. Mr. J. Field, an employee of a timber yard, jumped in and…

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Fatality at St. Marys

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

A very esteemed resident of St. Marys, Mr Edward Williams (77), was fatally injured when struck by a passing car on the Western Road on…

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