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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Sensational Collision Car Returning From Cricket. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 1

A sensational collision between a motor car and lorry near Windsor last night resulted in five men being injured, three, John Haynes, Eric…

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Surfing Tragedy. Man and Woman Drowned. Ballina

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 2

While surfing at Black Head Bench yesterday two Lismore residents, Mrs. Piercey and Mr. Nott were drowned. Mrs. Pierecy's body was washed…

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Harbour Collision Otranto Runs Into French Steamer Port Said

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 1

The [?]Orient Company's liner, "Otranto," collided with a French steamer "Bernardin de St. "Pierre," which was anchored in the…

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Attack on Coroner. Hilldale Colliery Accident

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 1

Replying in the Legislative Assembly to Mr. Baddcley. who alleged that the coroner who inquired into the death of a miner at the Hilldale colliery, near…

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Police Injured. Sydney

North West Champion · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 4

During a sensational chase after a stolen motor car in the city early this morning, Constable Brown fell from the wireless patrol wagon and,…

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Constable Wounded. Accidentally Shot. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 3 April 1930 · page 2

Constable Horace Riley, driver of one of the police wireless patrols, was shot in the arm, near the shoulder, in an accident which occurred during a chase…

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Alleged Camp Row. One Man Badly Injured

North West Champion · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 5

Last Saturday afternoon there was an all-in brawl at the Camping Reserve, and one man, Jack Bowman, ended up by being conveyed to the…

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Run Over by Sulky Man's Leg Injured

The North Western Courier · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 1

William Hayes was admitted to the Narrabri Hospital this morning suffering from a probable fracture of a leg, caused by the wheel of a sulky…

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Accident on Kirkby Bridge

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 2

An accident occurred on Kirkby Bridge early last evening when a motor car. driven by a man named George Henry Morgan, came Into colision with…

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Car and Sulky Mishap Accident on Wee Waa Road

The North Western Courier · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 1

While Mr. and Mrs. Wall were driving homewards in their sulky on Thursday afternoon, a lorry driven by M. Stoltenburg, of Merry and…

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Shocking Fatality Two Children Killed Melbourne

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 1

Two children of the Rev. E. F Cameron of Yea (Vic.) were killed when the car driven by Rev. Cameron struck a stump and overturned…

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Motor Car Accident. Two Children Killed. Melbourne

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 7

A boy aged 13 and a girl aged 10, the children of the Rev. E. P. Cameron, minister of Scots' Church at Yea, were killed in a motor car accident…

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Kirkby Bridge Accident Court Case

North West Champion · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 7

The aftermath of the accident on Kirkby Bridge last Sunday night, when a motor car and a lorry collided to their mutual detriment, occurred at…

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A Shooting Affray. Man and Woman Seriously Injured. Brisbane

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 14 April 1930 · page 2

In a shooting affray in a boarding house in South Brisbane yesterday. Mrs. Florence Hilman (33) and Victor Lusk (29 received bullet wounds and…

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Motor Car Accident. Husband and Wife Killed. Wellington (N.z.)

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 14 April 1930 · page 2

Mrs. Norman Cook was killed outright und her husband so gravely injured that he died in hospital some time later, when their motor car…

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Latest Cables. Aeroplane Collision. Both Pilots Killed. Paris

North West Champion · Thursday 17 April 1930 · page 4

Two military aeroplanes collided above Chateauroux and one of them, piloted by Lieutenant Baret, was cut in two. The debris crashed into a street…

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Fell Between Railway Carriages. Boy Fatally Injured. MELBOURNE

North West Champion · Thursday 17 April 1930 · page 4

Falling between two carriages of a train travelling between Clarendon and Richmond, Noel Wicks, 15, was fatally injured. He was trying to…

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Found Drowned Missing Girl

The North Western Courier · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 4

Olivia Tranter, 20, of Heatncote, Victoria, was found drowned in a creek. She had gone riding. When she failed to return, a search, party…

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Found Drowned. Foul Play Discounted. Hobart

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 7

An elderly Chinese, James Hee Bor, was found drowned in the harbour yesterday with an ugly lacerated wound in the scalp and fractured skull…

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Drowned in Harbour. Wealthy Chinaman's Fate. SYDNEY

North West Champion · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 5

James Hee Bor, 67, a well-to-do Chinese, who was bound for China and had some from Melbourne, was found drowned in Wooloomooloo Bay…

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