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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Yarra Drowning Coroner's Finding MEBURNE

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

The Corones Younl they pasie Dunbar, whose how was coved from the Yarra, d[?] wage had there was no by does show with…

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Boy Drowned Tin Canoe Sinks SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

Geoffrey Curtis, 13, was drowned at Elizabeth Bay whon his tin canoe filled with water some distance from the shore. The body was recovered an…

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Caught in Se[?]ng Mine Fatality MROKENHHL

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

Alas [?] £1, has from [?] in the South nine mill hang [?] the ladgel by his flothing [?] haddy [?]…

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Mauled by Shark Boy Seriously Injured

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 3

A fourteen-year-old boy named Collin Stewart, of 22, Campbell Parade, Bondi, was horribly [?]auled by a shark on Bondi beach at 6.30 on…

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Cardahes Off Road Collegiates Injured SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

Once carly of endets, from the or [?] Brothers' College at Wolonering were on Cambowarra Moun[?] yesterday when their car got out…

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Treacherous Attack On Rabaul District Officer Two Others Injured Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 4

A message from Rabaul states that a treacherous attack was made upon Mr. Calcutt, Assistant District Officer, by the village headman of Rabaul…

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Qld. Floods 500 Travellers Marooned Said to be Without Food Man Drowned in River Brisbane

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

Five hundred train passengers are marooned in the Cairns district (Qld.) owing to coed waters…

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Cycling Fatality Hit an Iron Railing NEWCASTLE

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 1

Captain Pascall, aged 56, a stevedore, was killed instantly at Newcastle yesterday when his motor cycle collided with an iron railing at the…

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Boy Drowned. When Tin-canoe Sank. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Geoffrey Curtis (13) was padding in it tin-canoe at Elizabeth Bay, when the craft filled with water and sank. The boy was drowned…

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Attacked by Sharks. Two Women Injured. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Two women bathers were attacked by a shark in the tidal at Miranda Head, New Zealand. Both were severely biten…

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Car Somersaults. Three Persons Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Three persons were seriously injured when a motor car, containing a party of students from the Christian Brothers' College, Wollongdng, overturned…

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Coffin-Sealer Fatally Injured. in Attempting to Escape From Burning Building. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

A man named Amos Avery was sealing a coffin at Tekuiti (New Zealand), when a blow lamp exploded, setting fire to the premises. He was trapped…

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'Serious Accident'

The Uralla Times · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 2

When several of the men engaged on the Yarrum Creek road job were, going out to camp during the week after a Merry Xmas and a happy New…

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Looted Car. After-motor Accident

The Uralla Times · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 3

Three young men, William Ashton Callaghan (19), Herbert Tozer (23) and Herbert Ernest Pike (19), were charged at Tamworth Police Court…

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Cars in Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 8

On Sunday afternoon, about four miles from town on the 7 enter field road, two cars came into collision, a Dodge, driven by Miss J. Watson, of Dundee,…

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Old Man Injured

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

An old man, J. Benson, suffered painful injuries to his head and shoulders when unloading a load of wood at the Sanitary depot recently. The…

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Pyrmont Collision. Tug and Steamer

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

A collision occurred at Pyrmont this morniug between the tug Heroine and the steamer Calulu. The impact was only slight, and very little…

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Little Boy Killed. Fatality at Ashford

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 6

Mr. and Mrs. Terrin of Dubbo, and their sou John, aged tour years, were proceeding to Benshaw on Tuesday afternoon in a motor lorry and when…

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Child's Death Motor Fatality "Making a Cigarette."

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

An inquiry was bold on Wednesday at the Court House, inverell, into the causes [?]deading to the death of child, John Perrin,…

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Coaster Wrecked Chinese Crew Drowned SHANGHAI

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

The search for survivors of the ill-fated Chinest coaster, [?] Wah, which sank outside Hong Song early yesterday, continues fruitlessly…

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