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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Accidents in Factories Effort to Reduce Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 5

Mr. J. C Bellmore, Under Secretary to, the Department of Labour and Industry, announced to-day that a panel headed by permanent committees,…

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Holiday Shooting Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 2

When he was out shooting with some companions in the hills on Tuesday, a lad named Fifield, who resides at Culcalrn, was shot in the…

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Accident Victim Dies Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 2

Ernest Glenwright, aged 39, of Trevellyan street, EIsternwick, died in the Alfred Hospital at 3 p.m. to-day from head injuries receives earlier in…

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Simply-caused Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 3

A very simply caused accident led to the Hay Ambulance being sent to Maude on Friday afternoon to convey schoolgirl patient, Heather…

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Victim of Burning Accident Improving

The Pastoral Times · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 4

Mr. Charles Reid, who sustained severe burns ;on the necessitating his admission to Deniliquin Hospital is now making satisfactory progress…

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Frauds Alleged Man And An Injured Thumb Gaoled for Two Years Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 2

An allegation that a man had sliced pieces from his thumb on four occasions and had obtained compensation for three of them…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured Perth

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 6

As a result of a collision between a motor cycle and a bicycle at South Fremantle last night, Claude Cotterell, of Preson Point road, Bicton, the rider of…

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Scaffolding Collapse : Workman Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 3

Falling heavily when some scaffolding, on which he was working on a job in Flemington road, North Melbourne, collapsed this morning, Reginald Lowe,…

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Accident Victim Dead Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 6

Brought to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in an unconscious condition. Eruest Arho, of Johnston st., New-port, died a few hours later. It is…

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Girl Almost Drowned When Pinned Underneath Car Maclean

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 3

Muriel Wunderlich, aged 18, of Grafton, was in danger of drowning when she was pinned by an overturned motor car in two feet of water yesterday…

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Little Boy Loses Eye as Result of Cycle Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 2

Maurice Breen, age eight years, of Uranquinty, so severely injured his right eye yesterday that it was removed on his admission to Lewisham…

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Burning Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 2

Mr. Richard Patrick Haggard. an employee of Messrs. Hamilton and Dickson’s ice works, Narandera, met with a burning accident on Tuesday…

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Board Track Fatality Cyclist’s Death Accidental Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 6

When the tyre of his bicycle burst, while he was competing in the motor paced “Austral Wheel Race,” at the Exhibition board track on November…

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Beechworth Solicitor Hurt in Car Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 2

It is thought that a blow-out caused a Sedan car travelling towards Melbourne. to leave the Hume Highway, five miles from Seymour, late on…

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Accident Theory in Fatal Gas Case. Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 4

Police now believe that the death of Ian Robert Liddell, technical college student, who was found gassed in a flat yesterday, was accidental…

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Drunken Drivers Heavier Penalties Accidents Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 1

The recent action of Parliament in increasing the penalties for drunken drivers had caused a decrease of 47 per cent, in accidents caused by such…

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Man Injured in Fall from Horse

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 4

Sydney Hazelwood, 69, a well-known farmer of Coreinbob, about 15 miles from Wagga, was riding a horse and leading another on Wednesday…

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15 Miners Drowned When Ferry Capsizes Tokio, May 4

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 7

Fifteen miners were drowned to-day in the capsize of a ferry boat off Honshu[?] Island in the Akita Prefecture which was rocked by a severe…

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Accident to Unregistered Truck Two Men Fined on Several Charges

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 3

Arising out of an accident on the Deniliquin-Finley road, about five miles, from Deniliquin, on Easter Sunday night, when a utility motor truck…

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Road Safety Skids Cause Accidents Warning to Motorists (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 May 1939 · page 4

Road accident reports from country centres for last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding, and in the coming months…

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