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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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A.W.U. President Condemns Unconstitutional Methods Explosion in a Well Italian Miner Killed Companion Injured PERTH

The Inverell Times · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

Battista Bettinie, aged 46, miner, formerly of Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill, yesterday received fatal injuries at the bottom of a 32 foot well…

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Accidents. Painful Burns

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

Mr. J. T. [?], or the Rocky, Uralla, [?] brave fight to save his lorry one day last week. Tat vehicle took fire, but the owner succeeded in over…

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Looted Car. After Motor Accident

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

Three young men — William Ashton Callaglian. 19. Herbert Tozer, 23, and Herbert Ernest Pike, 19, were charged at Tamworth Police Court on…

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Drowning Fatality Overtaken by Cramp WAGGA

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 1

Albert William Allen (36) [?] across the river near [?] he [?] threw up his [?] and sank. Although the…

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Little Boy Killed. Fatality at Ashford

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 11

Mr. and Mrs. Terrin, or Dublin, and their son John, aged four years, were proceeding to Bonshaw in a motor lorry, and when about three miles…

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Tunnel Roof Collapses. Two Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 6

John Darcy and Harry Bates were both seriously injured when the roof collapsed in a tunnel at Geelong. Darey is not expected to recover…

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Car Capsizes. Two Lads Killed at Ballina. Four Others Injured

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

Very little hope is held out for the recovery of two young children who were concerned in a serious motor smash at the intersection of Moon…

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Pedestrains Paradise. Motorists' Arrest Follows Accidents

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

By a stroke of the pen, the Prime Minister (General de Riviera) has made Spain a pedestrian's paradise by enforcing the immediate arrest,…

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Struck by Lightning Bundarra Fatality

The Uralla Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

A magisterial inquiry was held at Bundarra, by the Coroner, in connection with the death of Albert Laurence Fleming…

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A Fatal Swerve Car Fatality MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

William Conn, aged 18, was killed when a car which he was driving swerved into a footway and overturned, at Moonee Ponds…

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2955 Drowned in Vic. in 15 Years

The Uralla Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

Melbourne, Friday.—It is the duty of parents to have their children taught to swim, declared Mr Forrest, M.L.A., to-day.He stated that 2955 lives were lost in Victoria through drowning during the last 15 years…

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Migrant's Fate Drowned in River WAGGA

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

George William Thornton, aged 20, a British migrant, was fishing in the Murrumbidgee, near Wagga, when his line caught on a snag. He went out…

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Man Drowned End of Fishing Trip SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

While fishing at Wiseman's Ferry on Saturday an employee of the Main Roads Board, whose identity could not be established, fell into the water…

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Surf Boat Swamped Three Men Drowned Dashed on the Rocks AUCKLAND

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

The swamping of a surf boat at Marakopa yesterday resulted in the loss of three lives. A party of seven were testing a surf boat. The first…

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Crashed Into a Tree Sensational Car Smash One Killed; Five Injured SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 1

A motor car got out of control, yesterday near St. Albans, near Wollombi and crashed into a tree. Mrs. Daisy Pithers was killed. Five others…

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Fatal Accident

The Uralla Times · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

The shocking news was received on Monday night last (says Walcha News) that Mr Kenneth George, Gibson, aged 36. son of Mrs W. Gibson,…

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Migrant Drowned. Shipped off Log

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

Wagga—George William Thorneton, 20, British migrant, was fishing in the Murrumbidgee, near Wagga, when his line caught on a snag. He went…

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Latest Telegrams and Cables [Through our Metropolitan A[?]nta.] SYDNEY, Monday. Fishing Fatality. M.R. Board Employee Drowned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

While fishing [?] Ferry on Saturday [?] of the Main [?] identity could not be [?] into the water and…

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Woman Injured at Iluka

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 3

Mrs. G. white, of liuka, was saverely burnt about the body at Iluks last week, rand sustained injures whigh nedsitated her removal to the…

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