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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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General News Town and District Matters Sulky Accident

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 4

When [?]e bolted with a sulky occupied [?] Messrs. Sidney Pidcock and Ceci[?] Poole in Hickey-street, Casino, on Saturday the occupants…

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Little Girl Drowned Tragedy at Innisfail

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 3

INNISFAIL, Tuesday:--One death as a result of the floods occurred to-day, the victim being Vilma Shang, aged 2. The little girl was playing…

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Fatally Injured Man Caught in Driving Belt

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday:--Hurled against the steel framework of machinery when he became caught in a driving belt at Campbell's sawmills at…

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Drowning Tragedy Fatal Attempt to Swim River

Tweed Daily · Thursday 21 January 1932 · page 3

CAIRNS, Wednesday:--George Batstone (35), a native of Buudaberg, was drowned in the flooded Mulgrave River at Gordonvale. Deceased was employed…

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Triple Drowning Tragedy Man and Two Women Lose Lives

Tweed Daily · Thursday 21 January 1932 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday:--While bathing in the river, near Narrandera to-day a party of six were swept by the current into a deep…

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Central Coast Deluged Queensland Cyclone Railway Bridge Washed Away Man Drowned

Tweed Daily · Thursday 21 January 1932 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday:-- A deluge of rain on the central coast resulted from the passage southwards of the cyclonic disturbance…

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Accidentally Shot

Northern Star · Thursday 21 January 1932 · page 4

Eric Ellem, a prospector at "The Bulldog," 28 miles from Tabulam, stopped on the side of a gully and placed his pea rifle oil the ground. The…

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Drowned at Urunga

Northern Star · Friday 22 January 1932 · page 6

Herbert Arthur Lisle (21), a single man, was drowned in the Urunga swimming pool. His clothes were found in the dressing shed, and his body was…

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Girl Injured Explosion of Gas SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 22 January 1932 · page 9

Opening the oven door of a gas stove at her home at Canterbury last night Lilian Dillworth (17) received the full blast of the explosion in her face. The…

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Three Drowned Narrandera Tragedy Man, Wife and Friend SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 22 January 1932 · page 4

Three people, a young married couple and a friend, were drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at Narrandera yesterday…

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Landing Accident

Northern Star · Friday 22 January 1932 · page 6

Attempting to land at Ballina aerodrome after a flight from Brisbane yesterday Mr. S. Galton, piloting a Moth 'plane in which his sister was a…

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Triple Drowning Tragedy

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 1

While bathing in the river near Narrandera on Wednesday, a party of six were swept by the current into a deep hole, with the result that three of them…

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Pain and Accidents

Northern Star · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 6

To the onlooker of an accident, the victim is always the subject of sympathy, and it is generally assumed that the unfortunate being is subjected to…

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Woman Run Down by Van Fatality in Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday:--Struck by a baker's van while endeavouring to cross Queen Street, city, on, Saturday morning, Mrs. Margaret Catherine Love (60), of…

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Clothes Ablaze Two Men Seriously Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday:--When their clothes became ablaze with petrol, A. Rushby and V. Turton fled from a railway petrol waggon which was…

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Changed Men U.s.a. Unemployment Risk of Accident

Northern Star · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 9

The Director of the Division of Industrial Hygiene under the Industrial Commission of New York State, has an interesting note in the…

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Man Drowned in Irrigation Channel. Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 2

John Haines, father of Jack Haines, the former middleweight champion of Australia, was drowned in the main Irrigation channel near Griffith last…

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Nearly 100 Injured Pitched Battle Conoids and Warders Headquarters Block Destroyed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday:--As a result of a violent outbreak at Dartmoor Prison, Princetown, following a fortnights unrest, which culminated in a series of mutinous scenes, between 60 arid 70 convicts and a dozen warders are in the gaol hospital…

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Alstonville Drowning

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 2

While swimming with others in a creek about 14 miles from Alstonville yesterday afternoon, Zena Armstrong, aged 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C…

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Girl Drowned Creek Near Alstonville

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 6

Zena Armstrong (10), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Armstrong, of Alstonville, was drowned in a deep swimming hole in Campbell's Crock…

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