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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Seven Injured When Cars Collide

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 16

Seven persons were injured, two of them seriously, when two cars met in a head-on collision on Prince's Highway, Sutherland. The victims were:—…

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Cars Collide Nine Persons Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 2

When two ears came into collision on top of Razorback Mountain, near Picton, nine persons, including Mr. and Mrs. Harry, two residents of Oaklands…

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Road Accidents Week-end Toll

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 33

When a grasshopper flew in the face of A. J. Wyett, while he was driving round a bend from Peat's Ferry, the car got on to loose gravel, swung…

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V.C. Winner Killed Sydney Hero London Accident London, April 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 10

Gunner Arthur Percy Sullivan, V.C., aged 40 years, of Sydney, a member of the Australian contingent to the Coronation, was killed in an accident last…

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Child Bites Snake: Snake Dies and Other Strange Accidents of 1986

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 8

FOR a man to be bitten by a dead shark sounds like a fisherman's tall tale, but it has happened to a young amateur photographer of…

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Shocking Burning Accident. Oil Storeman's Plight. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 1

William Lopez (24) received shocking burns from his head to his feet when his clothes caught alight at the depot of the Atlantic Union Oil Co…

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Accidents in Sydney Boy Dies From Injuries Two Tram-car Collisions Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 5

A tram and a lorry met head-on with great force near William street, City, this morning. Both vehicles were badly damaged. The…

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Farmer Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 4

Mr. John Bremner, a well-known farmer and grazier, of Womboota, is in the Echuca District-Hospital in a-serious condition, as the result of being…

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Bricklayer Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 2

A remarkable accident befell Mr. W. Bryan, a bricklayer, well-known in Finley district. When dismantling the scaffolding of a chimney which he had…

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An Injured Shearer. a Goondiwindi Incident. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 2

Heubert George Miller (48), a shearer was admited to the Goondiwindi hospital yesterday, with a bullet wound between the eyes. His…

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Body Found in River Man Missing From Home Fatality at Mildura

The Independent · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 2

The body of George Robert Stevens, 28, single, who went fishing in the Murray near Boell Creek, did not return to his home in Lime avenue…

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Girl Seriously Injured Thrown From a Bicycle Run Over by Horse and Sulky

The Independent · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 2

Jean Gordon, 7, years, was riding a bicycle along a street at Wagga, on Friday, when the bicycle came into collision with a horse and sulky…

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Youth's Leg Broken In Football Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 1

As the result of a fall while playing football yesterday evening, Alec Munro, aged 14 years, son of Mr. G. D. Munro, licensee of the Central…

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Fatality at Griffith Fruitgrower Fell Under Motor Truck

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 12

Fatal injuries were sustained by Luigi Moretto, aged 38, an Italian fruit grower, at his farm, No. 980, two and a half miles from Griffith, when he…

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Carpenter Injured Tripped While Carrying Ladder

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 1

When he tripped while carrying a ladder, causing him to fall heavily across some flooring, Mr. Len Caryosoe, carpenter, of Deniliquin sustained a…

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Man and Woman Dead Several Badly Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 15

A woman was killed and three persons were injured when two cars met in a head-on collision near Lansdowne bridge, a short distance from…

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Four Hit by Truck Two Killed Two Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 15

Two persons were killed outright and two others injured in the early hours of Sunday, when, returning on foot from a dance at Thomastown, they…

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Child's Resourcefulness Telephones for Help When Mother Injured

The Independent · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 3

The intelligence of Dawn Merritt, 3 year old of Narromine, possibly saved the life of her mother, Mrs. Esta Merritt, 38, wife of a well-known…

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H.M.A.S. Sydney in Collision Auckland (N.Z.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 12

As a result of damage caused to her propellors when she was struck by the Admiralty oil tanker Nucala, the cruiser Sydney left Auckland this…

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Fatal Road Accidents. Two Deaths. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 2

Knocked, down by. a slowly moving lorry which, according to the police report, was driven by her brother, Eleanor Mary Orbell (22), a member…

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