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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

2,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 148

Air Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 2

Sir,—While coloured discs or streamers fixed to the control lock wedges of aircraft (as suggested by your correspondents) are a good idea…

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Boy Drowned in Georges River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 3

The body of a 10-year-old boy was recovered from the George's River yesterday afternoon by Liverpool police…

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Boy Drowned In George's River

The Sun · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 3

A 10-year-old boy was drowned in the George's River near Fairfield, late yesterday afternoon…

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Girl Injured in Fall From Train

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

Maureen Belchor (about 17) suffered concussion and bruising when she fell from a moving train near Marrickville…

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Girl Injured in Fall From Train

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

Maureen Belehor (about 17) suffered concussion and bruising when she fell from a moving train near Marrickville…

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Boy, 4, Critically Injured By Car

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 4

A four-year-old boy was critically injured at 7.40 o'clock last night when a car knocked him down outside his home at Punchbowl…

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Girl Injured in Fall From Train

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

Maureen Belchor (about 17) suffered concussion and bruising when she fell from a moving train near Marrickville…

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Girl Injured in Fall From Train

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

Maureen Belchor (about 17) suffered concussion and bruising when she fell from a moving train near Marrickville…

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New Zealand Has Low Accident Death Rate

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday.--Speakers at the transport conference at Grey mouth (South Island) said yesterday that New Zealand had the…

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New Zealand Has Low Accident Death Rate

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

A UCKLAND, Saturday.--Speakers at the transport conference at Grey mouth (South Island) said yesterday that New Zealand had the…

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Tomboy Running: Was Accidental

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 16

AFTER the sensationally backed Tomboy had been beaten in the Ingleburn Handicap at Randwick today his rider. A…

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New Zealand Has Low Accident Death Rate

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday.--Speakers at the transport conference at Greymouth (South Island) said yesterday that New Zealand had the…

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The Tragic Love Life of Nancy De Marigny Is the whole love life of millionairess Nancy de Marigny, daughter of murdered Sir Harry Oakes, to be forever surrounded by misery and tragedy? Nancy loved madly her French husband, Count Alfred de Marigny, and she stood beside him throughout the trial which cleared him of a charge of murdering her father. She left him only when he announced he was publishing his memoirs. Now Nancy has lost a probable future husband, RAF pilot Captain Edsberg, killed in a plane collision

The World's News · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 7

"HOW dark is the cloud that is gathering now? What kind of blow will be the next to fall?" Slim, auburn-haired Nancy Oakes…

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Squatters, Airmen in Brawl; 2 Injured

Truth · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday.—Two men were injured in a disturbance which flared between RAAF guards and a band of "squatters" attempting to move into an unoccupied Air Force hut at Victoria Park Air Force Station tonight…

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Stop Press Injured Woman on Footpath

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 1

Shortly before 1:30 am to-day Mady police received anonymous alone call that a woman was being on the…

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Four Injured in Car Capsize

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

When a car skidded on the wet road in Raglan Street, Mosman, yesterday, it smashed through a safety fence, rolled 10 feet over an embankment…

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Philgita Injured: to Be Retired to Stud

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 18

Philgita snapped a suspensory ligament during the running of the Phillip Handicap at Randwick on January 27, and will not race again. The mare was seen to falter…

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Dies After Accident

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 7

PERTH. Monday.--Mr. Tim Buckley. 83, died at Northam Hospital yesterday as a result of injuries he received when…

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Traffic Accident Led To Discovery Of New Drug From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The discovery of a powerful new drug, which wipes out infections formerly requiring surgery, was reported on…

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Air Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

Sir,—May I suggest the adoption in Australia of a system I saw introduced at an important United States airport after the Canadian crash involving the…

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