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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Heavy Losses Sheep Drowned at Lockhart

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 2

A message from Lockhart states that reports from outlying districts indicate that the rain storms last week caused greater damage than was at first…

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Rider Injured Thrown From a Horse

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

Leslie Arnold (19) was admitted to Deniliquin Hospital on Sunday evening suffering from head injuries through being thrown from a horse…

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Thrown From Horse Young Station Hand Injured

The Independent · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

As the result of getting his foot caught in the stirrup and thrown when his horse bolted with him, Leslie Arnold, 191 years, Was admitted to…

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Struck by Winch Handle Weir Employee Seriously Injured

The Independent · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

Ten minutes before ho was due to finish work for the week-end at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, Colin Campbell, a young Deniliquin man…

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Storm Damage Heavy Losses in Lockhart District Sheep Drowned and Horses Killed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 3

Belated reports from outlying districts indicate that the recent cyclonic rain storm wrought much greater damage than at first…

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Car Skids Into Tree Mr. C. L. Falkiner Slightly Injured

The Independent · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

Soon after passing through Deniliquin about 9.30 on Thursday night last the car in which Mr. C. L. (Les.) Falkiner and four others were…

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Fearful 'Plane Accident. Eleven Persons Incinerated. PARIS

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 2

Eleven persons are believed to have been incinerated when the record breaking plane, Emerald, on its return trip from Saigon to Le Bourget…

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Chapter of Accidents at Carnival at Wagga

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 3

Quite a chapter of accidents has occurred at a miniature carnival being held at Wagga. After a man suffered a fractured…

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Weir Accident Head and Arm Injuries

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

COLIN CAMPBELL, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Campbell, of Deniliquin, was severely injured, at Stevens Weir on Saturday morning, when he was…

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Faking Accidents Lucrative American "Industry."

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 4

One out of every four personal damage claims nowadays is suspected of fraud (writes William Inglis, in the course of an article in…

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Tumut Drowning

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

The inquest on Mrs. Florence Martin and her infant twin son, Frederick, whose bodies were found in the Tumut River will be help to-day…

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Gundagai Road Fatality. Verdict of Accident. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

The inquiry has been concluded, at Gundagai, into the motor accident in which three women were killed. The coroner found that the deaths resulted…

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Frost Injured to Wheat

The Independent · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 4

All unusual result of the effect of frost was quite commonly seen during the recent judging of wheat crop competitions in the Wagga district Plants…

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Friend of Suicide Found Drowned Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

Jack Farrell McGrath, 55, of Five Dock, as found drowned in Hen and Chicken Bay, near, Gladesville, this morning. He said to have been an…

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Another Motor Fatality. Mosman Resident Killed. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

When a motor car overturned, eight miles from Parramatta, last night, Harry Parkin (45), a resident of Mosman was killed. Five others were…

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Boy Drowned at Beechworth Fell Into a Dam

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 6

Thomas the eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Weir near Beechworth, was drowned and Wednesday morning in a dam adjacent…

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Two Boys Drowned. Bathing in Gippsland. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

While Donald Khote (13) and Ralph: Fraser (11), were bathing in the Mitchell River, Gippsland district, they swam out of their depth, were caught…

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A Stranded Steamer. Officers and Crew Drowned. AMSTERDAM

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

Eleven men, being the officers and crew of the steamer Oakford, which stranded in a gale after the vessel sprang a leak, off Texel Island, was…

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Another Accident at Weir

The Independent · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 2

Another minor accident was reported from the Stevens Weir yesterday. The victim was William Denley, a married man residing in North Deniliquin, and…

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The Emerald Disaster. a Peculiar Accident. PARIS

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

The experts, inquiring into the Emerald disaster, when the 'plane crashed in flames, killing ten persons, is now examining a suggestion that the…

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