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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Accident on Deervale Road

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

There was another accident (the second during last month) on the Deervale road on Christmas Day, the victims being a party of Sydney…

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Another Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 3

The nasty turn on the main road at the turn-in to Bonville Reserve was responsible for another motor accident this Christmas. This and the…

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Fell Twenty Feet. Pymble Motor Cycle Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 6

While Frank Coleman, 19, was riding a motor cycle, at Pymble his machine got out of control, and with him dived over a 20ft. embankment. It burst into flames…

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27 DEATHS N.Z. Holiday Accidents. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 6

It is now estimated that the accidents during the holidays resulted in 27 deaths in the Dominion. The latest adition to the list of…

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Ex-grafton Constable Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 4

Constable V. J. Scroope, lock-up keeper at Lismore, is at present off duty suffering from an eye injury, which was caused by a prisoner throwing a plug of tobacco…

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One Killed, Two Injured Adelaide Motor Smash. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 5

Three persons were injured in a collision at Norwood when a motor car, driven by Mrs. Gwendoline Everett ran down a pedestrian[?] struck a horse and…

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Motor Lorries Collide Man and Woman Badly Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 5

When two motor lorries collided at Haberfield last night, two persons were seriously injured, namely Miss Marjorie Doherty, 21, and George Masterton, 35…

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Telegrams Boy Drowned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

While playing with other boys on the bank of the Hawkesbury River at Windsor yesterday Francis James Fewings, aged 6, slipped into the water and was drowned…

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Child Drowned Fell Into Creek. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

While playing on the banks of Duck Creek, a tributary of the Parramatta River, to-day, Mollie Newman, 3 years, of Auburn, fell into the water and was…

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Badly Injured Motor Cyclist at Koolkhan

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

As a result of falling off a motor cycle a young man, Clifford Jackson, a cinema operator, at the Saraton Theatre, was badly injured early yesterday morning…

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65 Believed Drowned French Freighted and Trawler Missing. Paris

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 3

It is feared that 27 were drowned in the sinking of the French freighter, Walakoff, during a storm off Balearios. All hope has been abandoned for the…

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Seven Injured Back Tyre Blow Out. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

Whlie descending, a steep hill near Wallan a motor car skidded, struck a fence and overturned through the back tyre blowing out…

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4 DEAD, 17 HURT Toll Of The Motor Crash on Parramatta Road Mourners' Car in Collision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

Four were killed and 17 injured in two motor car accidents yesterday, while several others were hurt in less serious smashes…

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Leg Amputated Man Injured in Collision Motor Driver Charged. Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

As the result of a collision between a motor car and cycle he was riding, Edward Carr was so seriously injured that one of his legs had to be amputated…

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Mildura Drowning Case. Mildura

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

While James Oppy, 42, grocer, was fishing in the Murray yesterday, at Bleezer's Bend he slipped and over-balanced from a rocky ledge and was…

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Boy Drowned. Bowral

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

Ronald Yabsley, 10 years, was drowned while swimming in the river at Berrima yesterday. It is believed the lad was affected by cramp…

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Father Drowned Gave Life for Daughter Line Line in Terrible Condition. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

At the inquest into the death of Stanley Wallace, 39, who was drowned while surfing at Newport, on January 1, Arthur Jacobs said the life line was in terrible…

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Two Killed, Ten Injured Victoria's Week-end Motor Toll Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

Two persons were killed and ten injured. some seriously, in motor accidents in Victoria during the week-end…

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Extraordinary Accident to Minister's Car

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

Returning to Armidale from Glen Innes in a Dodge touring car on Wednesday last, Mr. D. H. Drummond, M.L.A., Minister for Education, was the victim…

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Sheer Legs Collapse Man Seriously Injured Accident at Mororo. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 4

A serious accident occurred at Mororo on Monday. A single man named Gordon Ebrington, aged about 30 years, who is employed with the Main Roads Board…

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