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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Remarkable Blasting Accident. Kurri Kurri

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1929 · page 2

Frank Skinner (34) was Killed in a remarkable blasting accident at Sawyer's Gully. With a man named William Scott, he had placed a small…

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Fatal Blasting Accident. Kurri Kurri

North West Champion · Monday 16 September 1929 · page 2

While blasting at Sawyer's Gully to-day, an old tree trunk weighing eight tons was hurled into the air. It struck Frank Skinner (34), crushing…

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Another Motor Accident

Manilla Express · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 1

An electrician was run over and killed in Wagga last night. The man was killed instantly. Later prominent business man…

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Boating Fatality. Two Men Drowned. Brisbane

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

A message from Cairns states that two men, Vincent Edrington and Ronald Brown, were drowned while travelling in an auxiliary yacht between…

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Mysterious Accident. Man Killed: Woman Injured. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

A message from Ballarat states that at about three o'clock yesterday morning two men called at the police station and reported that when motoring…

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Child Killed in Head-on Collision. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 1

When a motor car and motor cycle collided head-on at Sandgate, near Newcastle, yesterday. Joyce Harvev aged two years, was killed, aud eight…

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Head-on Collision. Cycle and Motor Car. BRISBANE

North West Champion · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 4

When a motor car and motor cycle collided head-on at Sandgate, near Newcastle, yesterday, Joyce Harvey, aged two years, was killed, and eight…

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Car Bursts Into Flames. Occupants Slightly Injured. Newcastle

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

When one of Its tyres blew out a motor car. In which four men were riding from Toronto to Teralba. got out of control, ran over a 20 feet…

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Pilots Misfortune. Cheated Hy Death Accident in Military Manoeuver Warsaw

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 1

At Warsaw there was an extraordinary aeroplane accident in military manouever: two machines collided, one of the pilots Jumped…

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Motor Cycle Accident

North West Champion · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 4

While riding a motor-cycle on Friday night, Mr. Bert Williams was thrown from the machine when about two miles from town. He was…

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Hit with Swing. Accident in Park

North West Champion · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 7

Master Ross Sullivan, the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Sullivan, of East Moree was playing in Jellicoe Park on Tuesday afternoon when he was…

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Motor Car Accident. Narrow Escapes

North West Champion · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 4

An accident that might easily have been attended with very serious results occurred about mid-night on Saturday, at the corner of Balo and Heber Streets,…

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Motor Accidents

Manilla Express · Tuesday 1 October 1929 · page 2

On Friday last a car containing several people overturned on the Upper Manilla Road. We understand no one was injured…

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Head-on Collision. Newcastle

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 2

When two motor cycles collided head-on near Sandgate. Newcastle, the rider of one or them. George Fenwick (49 had his skull. Jaw and nose…

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Man Fatally Injured at Auburn Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 1

Frank Halford, 30, was fatally injured in a collision between a motor cycle he was riding, and a motor lorry at Auburn this morning. He…

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Factory Upheaval Rival Union Factions Two Killed, Fourteen Injured in Carolina Marion

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 October 1929 · page 1

The North Carolina clash between the Rival Union Factions and the Deputy Sheriffs at the Marlon Textile Manufacturing Company's plant…

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Accidents in Factories. Difficulty of Interpreting Statistics

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 7 October 1929 · page 1

The difficulty of interpreting statistics is illustrated afresh every year by the Home Office report on accidents in factories and workshop. This…

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Brutal Assault. Man Seriously Injured

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 10 October 1929 · page 2

Mr. John Samios. who has been in the employ of Mr Theo. Paseall for the past two years, was picked up in Heber Street about eleven o'clock on…

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Accidents at Race Meeting. Perth

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 14 October 1929 · page 2

At the Western Australian Turf Club's Centenary meeting Redwin was killed who nhe fell and broke his neck. His rider was unhurt…

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Accident to Labourer

North West Champion · Monday 14 October 1929 · page 2

Oscar Mason, labourer, employed on the new building in course of erection for the National Bank of Australasia, fell a distance of about 25 feet this…

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