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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

373 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 19

Scalding Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 4 March 1933 · page 4

In view of the many severe scalding accidents to children by the careless handling of utensils containing the boiling water and other liquids, the…

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Level Crossing Fatality Two Men Killed. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 2

Frederick Beckett and Frank Wooton were killed when a motor truck collided with a train at Yerronpilly level crossing, Queensland…

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Sensational Accident. Child Falls Down a Well. a Booroorban Incident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 2

Hilary, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Skene, of Pine-street, Hay, had a miraculous escape from serious injury early on Friday…

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Coursing Notes. Final Verse Passes Accident to Brigand

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 2

A big loss was sustained by [?] W. Anderson, of the Carnsdale [?] Balldale, last week, by the death his brood bitch, Final Verse…

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Sensational Accident. Child Falls Down Well. a Booroorban Incident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 10 March 1933 · page 4

Hilary, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Skene, of Pine street, Hay, had a miraculous escape from serious injury early on Friday…

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Injured Man Collapses Trying [?] Reach Home

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 11 March 1933 · page 4

Mr. Adam Forster was cutting timber in the forest between Lang Lang and Nyora when the axe slipped and cut his left foot badly. He walked…

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Big Earthquake Californian Disaster. DEAD, 238; Thousands Injured. Los Angeles

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 2

A series of violent earthquakes which began last night and continued to-day has spread death, injury and destruction over an area 200 miles in…

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Air Crash Inquiry Committee's Report on Point Cook Fatality Pilots Failed to Keep Care Ful Lookout

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 1

An official statement issued by the Defence Department. Canberra, on Wednesday, stated that the air accidents investigation committee, after…

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Level Crossing Fatality. a Shocking Accident. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 2

A shocking level crossing accident took place near Richmond, last night, when a fast moving goods train crashed into a motor car. Two persons…

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Fearful Fatality in Mexico. a Picture Show Disaster. Forty Killed; Seventy Injured. GUADALJARA (Mexico)

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 1

Forty-one were killed and seventy gravely injured in a motion picture fire at Ahualulco. Twenty were trampled to death in the stampede…

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Girls Drowned in Alligator Water

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 11

Two girls lost their lives at Pindi Pindi, 40 miles north of Mackay (Qld.). Thelma Adams, aged 10 years, and. Mary Adams, aged 6 years…

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Claim For Injured Bullock

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 6

Stanley Star sued to recover £10 damages from John Thomas Taylor in respect of a bullock alleged to have been injured by defendant's motor…

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Soldier Drowned. Off the South Coast. SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 3

Samuel Hancock (46), a returned soldier, was drowned at Coalcliff, on the South Coast, early this morning, while in a fishing boat, which…

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Earthquake in California 238 Dead; Thousands Injured Los Angeles (Cal.), March 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 16

A series of violent earthquakes which began last night and continued to-day has spread death, injury, and destruction iover an area 200 miles…

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Wagga News Timber Factory Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 9

Reginald Lugton, 25 years, a married man with, one child, met with shocking injury on Saturday morning. He is an employe of Hardy's timber…

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Drowning Inquest Accident Whilst Crossing River

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 3

At the Balranald Court House on Wednesday morning an inquest was held into the death of Robert Stead, a half-caste fisherman, whose body was…

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Accident. Young Man Seriously Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

Falling under the wheels of a horse-drawn lorry heavily laden with boxes of butter, Arthur Lackington son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lackington, of…

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Serious Accident Young Man Run Over by Horse Lorry Mr. Arthur Lackington in Swan Hill Hospital in Critical Condition

The Independent · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 1

Mr. Arthur Lackington, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lackington, of North Deniliquin, and well-known athlete, was the…

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Child Drowned at Griffith

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 30

Gladys May Kennedy, eight years, was drowned in a dam on a farm near Griffith, where her hother was employed as housekeeper. The child was…

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Child Drowned on Her Birthday

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 5

In the course of celebrating her fifth birthday on Monday, Barbara Pauline Osborne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Osborne, of Narandera,…

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