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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Youths Injured Thrown From Motor Cycle

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 1

WHEN their motor cycle skidded on loose gravel and crashed into a culvert on the Mathoura, road about 7 miles from Deniliquin, on…

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Traffic Accidents 1345 Deaths Est 1936

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 28

A total of 1345 people were killed and 22,131 injured in traffic accidents in Australia in 1936. There were 47,000 traffic accidents. According to…

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Motor Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 3

On Saturday 31st July, a collision happened in Market Street, Balranald between a Chevrolet sedan driven by Mrs. Don Murphy and a sedan car…

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Accident in Wahgunyah

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

On Thursday last, Mr. William Nott, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Stan. Nott of Wahgunyah, was knocked down by a car in Wahgunyah, and was…

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Jockey Severely Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 4

Grave injuries were sustained by Frank Jennings, from[?]y of Deniliquin when he fell with King S[?]rs in the Australian Hurdle Race at…

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Apex Zone President Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 13

Mr. Kenneth J. Dixon, aged 27 years, a Pitt-street solicitor, who was injured when the car in which he was driving crashed into an electric cable…

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Harbor Collision Damaged Vessel Driven Aground

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 45

When the steamer Clan Macneil struck the cross-Channel steadier Princess Marie Jose amidships in a slight fog while entering Dunkirk Harbor,…

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ALBURY & DISTRICT Albury Cyclist Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 9

After he had completed the first round of a 24 miles' cycle road race at Albury on Sunday, Jack Edwards, of Wilson-street, became stricken with…

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Injured Men Walk Seven Miles

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 6

A man with a broken arm and another with a fractured hand walked seven miles to Deniliquin for medical attention on Monday…

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Early Morning Crash Six Persons Injured Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

When two cars collided and overturned at tho corner of O'Connell's Point road and Basil street, Hurstville, early this morning, six persons…

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Men Pinned in Car Solicitor and Friend Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 11

Ambulance men had to use a crowbar, to release two injured men from a motor car which crashed into an electric light pole at Orange. Tho accident…

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Collision on Bridge Father and Son Claim Damages Verdicts For Defendant

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

After a brief retirement the jury in the District Court at Deniliquin on Wednesday retried verdicts for the defendant in to actions for damages arising out of a collision between two motor vehicles on the Eagle bridge near Barham in February last…

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Air Force Accident. Melbourne

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 2

An Air Force officer, Lieutenant J. R. Balmer, fell from an aeroplane at a height of, 3,000 feet, near Point Cook, and was saved by his…

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Plane Crash at Gilgandra Injured Man Dies. DUBBO

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 August 1937 · page 2

Arthur Wiliiam Priest (34), who was badly injured in a plane crash at Gilgandra air pageant, yesterday, died to-day…

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Harbor Collision

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 15

The Manly ferry steamer Balgowlah and the collier Himitangi collided off Benelong Point in Sydney Harbor in a thick fog which impeded harbor…

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Wodonga Player Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 7

On Friday, Fred Matthews, the Woodonga footballer, was found wandering about in about in a dazed condition in the store-room of J. Mann and Son,…

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Plane Crashes; Occupants Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 5

A Moth aeroplane owned by Airflite Ltd., Mascot, crashed at the Nowra aerodrome, and the two occupams, Leslie Burns, of Wallace-street,…

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Wagga News Carpenter Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 16

While working on the North Wagga viaduct, Lawrence Meagher, a carpenter employed on the railways, fell a distance of 15 feet. He sustained a…

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Obituary Mrs. Martha Lent Rutherglen Mine Fatality Recalled

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 5

The death occurred on Tuesday night last at her residence, 7 Parade Place, Corowa, of a very old identity of Corowa and Rutherglen districts, in…

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Albury and District Wodonga Electrician Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 5

Mr. E. Staff, an electrician, of Wodonga, when riding a cycle late Tuesday night near the Railway Hotel, Wodonga, was struck by a motor car…

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