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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Truck Overturns On Ben Lomond Woman Passenger Injured

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1938 · page 4

Two people, a man and a woman, had fortunate escapes from serious injury when a utility truck get out of control and…

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Motor Accident Injuries Prove Fatal WAGGA

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 19 March 1938 · page 1

Robert Williams, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, who was seriously injured in a motor accident at Kyeamba Bridge on…

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Youth Detained Evidence of Murder Injured in Motor Accident SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 1

Suffering from concussion and with severe gathers on both arms. a vouch aged 21 was fond along[?] an overturned motor car near…

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Police Guard By Injured Youth's Bed Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 1

Suffering from concussion and with severe gashes on both arms a youth, aged 21, was found alongside an overturned motor car near Bega…

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Games Ruined by Accident English Football Fans Want Rules Altered Substitutes Should be Allowed For Injured Players By Air Mail.) London, March 5

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 6

Thousands of English football supporters are demanding an inquiry into the working of the "no substitute" rule under which an…

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£10,000 Blaze Firemen Injured Considerable Danger SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 1

Two firemen were overcome by smoke in a blaze which completely burnt out two floors of a four-storied building in William-street, City, this…

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"Carry on Flying!" Says Wife of Injured Flyer Crashed On Eve Of Australian Flight By Air Mail.) London, March 5

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 4

Mrs. Valette, wife of Thomas Valette, one of the two wireless engineers injured in the aeroplane crash at Beddington, near…

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Car Accident Mr. Lawson, M.H.R., Seriously Injured DUBBO

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 1

Mr. Lawson, M.H.R. for Macquarie, was badly injured in a motor car accident to-day, and is now, in Dubbo Hospital in a…

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Alleged Assault Constable Injured Young Man Sentenced

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 3

In the local Police Court yesterday before Mr. F. T. Scroope, P.M., William Leslie Wilson was charged with having been found…

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Late [?] Munro Cor[?]al Enquiry Accidental Death

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 4

At Moree Police Court on Saturday, the Coroner, Mr. V. H. Wells, P.M., held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. William…

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Amphibian Sinks Accident at Jervis Bay Crew of Three Rescued Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 1

An Air Force Seagull amphibian struck some floating debris while taxt-ing along the water at Jervis Bay last night, was holed…

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Crushed Beneath Derrick Weight Workman Injured at Grafton GRAFTON

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 1

When lifting the chain of a large derrick which broke while being used to lift a heavy piece of machinery at the Hume Steel Works, South…

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Fatal Accident

Guyra Argus · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 2

A young married man named Gleeson, while working in a gravel pit on the Main Road (Guyra-Dorrigo) job near Ebor on Tuesday, was crushed by…

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Drowning Fatality Child Loses Life Governess Rescued

The Inverell Times · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 12

A sad drowning tragedy occurred at Weemelah, Bollon, the victim being Ena eight-year-old only daughter of Mr and Mrs E. W. Cameron, of…

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Pistol Duel Constable Injured MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 1

Constable Thomas Petersen at Yarra Junction, was wounded in the leg during a pistol duel with an unknown man at Launching Place on…

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ARMIDALE 51 Years Ago. (Reprinted from the "Express" of March 22 and 25, 1887) Accident at Railway Station

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 3

The horses attached, respectively, to Messrs. Moore's and Donnelly's buggies and Mr. Stevenson's coach, from some unexplained cause, bolted with…

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Boy Killed, Companions Injured SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 1

Racing down a steep hill at Glebe to-day a runaway billycart crashed into a lorry near Wentworth park and one lad was killed and two others…

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Three Killed in Collision

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6

Two men and a woman were killed and ten others injured, five seriously when a service coach collided head-on with a motor car on a narrow culvert…

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Drowning Fatalities Deaths at Forbes and Tweed Heads Forbes

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 1

Patrick Shanahan (12), of Marist Brothers' School, Forbes, was drowned at Cotton's Weir, in the Lachlan River, on Saturday. It is thought he…

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Accident on Culvert Woman in Hospital

The Inverell Times · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 4

As a result of a horse, buggy and us, two occupants going over the embankment at the Black Gully bridge, on the Bundarra road, yesterday. Mrs…

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