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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 159

Accidents at Mascot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 10

A strong wind was responsible for two accidents to aircraft on the Kingsford Smith aerodrome, Mascot, on Saturday. An Aero Club Moth was taxl-Ing across the aerodrome…

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Toll Of The Road Four Killed In Accidents CAR'S 90 Ft. Drop Over Bank Young Woman Met Death Standing At Punt

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

FOUR persons were killed and many injured in road accidents during the week end. W. T. COLLINS, well-known…

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Critically Injured by Tram

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 10

Struck by a tram in George Street, near Market Street, City, last night, Miss D. Howes, of Ramsgate Avenue, Bondi, suffered a fractured skull…

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£5 for Injured Woman Reader

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 7

A cheque for £5 will be forwarded to Mrs. F. M. Ballard, of Verdun Street, Bexley, by the Eagle Star Insurance Co., Ltd., under the Dally Telegraph…

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Injured in Fall From Tram

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 10

Falling from a moving tram at Coogee terminus last night, Miss Annie Martin. 79, of Cook Street, Randwick, fractured her right thigh…

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Small Planets. Chances of Collision With Earth. Astronomer's View

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 11

"If the planet observed last October by the Heidelberg astronomer, Dr. Reinmuth, and by other astronomers in South Africa, had collided with, the…

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Child Killed. Father and Grandmother Injured. GOULBURN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 8

Ronald Charles Noakes, aged three years, was killed, and his father, Leslie Eric Noakes, 26, and grandmother, Mrs. James Noakes, 68 were injured, when they were thrown from a…

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Child Killed in Sulky Capsize Father & Grandmother Injured Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 6

Thrown from a sulky between Bevendale and Rugby, Ronald Charles Noakes, aged 3, was killed, and his father, Leslie Noakes. 26, and…

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BOGUS S.O.S. CALL. Theory of Accident. Three Others in Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 12

No investigation of the bogus S.O.S. call, purporting to come from the coastal steamer Himatangi, which sent a number of ships racing to her…

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Death of Boy Was Accidental

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 6

At the inquiry at Ryde Court yesterday into the death of Michael Hardle Corbett. 2 years and 11 months, the Coroner. Mr. G. R…

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Noted Soccer Star Believed Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 20

LONDON, Tuesday.--Jimmy Hampson, Blackpool and international Soccer player, is believed to have been drowned in a collision between a trawler and a…

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Boy Drowned When Canoe Tipped Deginald Marshall

The Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 11

14, a schoolboy, of Underwood-avenue, Botany, vanished to-day when a canoe capsized in Botany Bay, while…

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Man Drowned in Brewery Pool. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 23

Charies Waddingham, a sustenance worker, was drowned in the brewery pool in the Ovens River at Bright this evening. Waddingham went in for a swini, and, when trying to…

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Fierce Storms. Sheep Drowned in Queensland. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 17

Twenty-seven of a mob of sheep, which were in the railway yards at Barcaldine, walting to be trucked by special train, were drowned in a heavy storm early this…

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Argentine Accident. Montevideo (Uruguay), Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 18

It is now confirmed that seven persons were killed, including Senor Eduardo Justo, son of the President of the Argentine Republic, when an Argentine Army plane crashed near the…

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Train Is Stormed by Crowd Serious Accident Was Narrowly Averted At Woy Woy Woy Woy

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 1

BY sheer good fortune, a serious accident was averted when a homeward - bound holiday crowd, numbering 500,…

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Baby Injured in Collision

The Propeller · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 7

Last Sunday morning two cars collided at the corner of Watkin Street and Harrow. Road, Bexley. Dennis Bristoll, three years of age,…

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Collision at Hurstville. Four Persons Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 1

Four persons were injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a bicycle in Belmore Road last Sunday evening. Kenneth Reid, 22, of Bridge…

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Overseer Injured

The Broadcaster · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 4

Mr. Stapleton, overseer of Holroyd Council, injured his back on Tuesday and was unable to attend the Council meeting that night…

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Injured by Window

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 4

While putting in a window at a building on Castlereagh Road, on 9th inst., A. E. Luxford, of Llandilo, suffered laceration of the forehead and…

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