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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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An Injured Knee

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 2

If you injure your knee you must not go to work if it is swollen. You must compare the two knees; put the injured one next to the…

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Trawlers in Collision. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 8

The trawler which collided with and sank the trawler Palmerston on the South Coast, reached Sydney last night in a badly damaged condition…

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Car Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 2

Whilst being driven to Spicer's Creek to collect the mail, Miss Marjorie Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Smith, of Spicer's Creek,…

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Gassed by Black Damp Three Italians Killed Jumbunna Mining Fatality Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 1

Three people, lost their lives yesterday in a coal mine at Jumbunna. It appears that a number of men, on entering the mine to commence work…

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Prince Henry's Fall Means Broken Collarbone Injured at Polo VANCOUVER

Western Age · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 3
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

The physicians attending Prince Henry, who slipped from his mount while playing polo and fractured a collarbone, stated that he had passed an…

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Distressing Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 6 June 1929 · page 6

Jack Worrall, one of Wellington's best-known cyclists, met with a painful and distressing accident last week, while engaged at chaff-cutting at Glen…

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COLLISION With Vehicular Ferry SYDNEY

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 1

The vehicular ferry "Kooroogaba," crowded with motor cars, collided with the launch Alert near Fort Macquarie last night…

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Accident at Peak Hill

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 10 June 1929 · page 1

Whilst returning from the football match yesterday afternoon, Mr. Power, of Peak Hill, was driving along well-street and when in front of the…

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Old Man Drowned Victim of Flood Waters Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 1

An elderly man, John Bulter, was drowned in Emu Creek yesterday. It is thought that he attempted to cross the creek on his way home, and was…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 10

On Saturday afternoon last the crew of a goos train coming from Orange to Wellington, noticed the prostrate form of a man lying on…

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Gun Accident at Gumble

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 10

A shooting mishap occurred at Gumble in the early part of last week, when a young, man, Mr. Richard McCarthy, was the victim of an…

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Found Drowned In Macquarie River

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon police headquarters at Dubbo, were apprised of the fact that the body of a man had been found in the Macquarie River about three…

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Punt Fatality Woman Loses Life Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 1

A woman named Mrs. White was drowned when a car crashed through the gate of a punt, and plunged into the river at Redcliffe. A male…

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Drowning Fatality In Macquarie River Accidental Death

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 4

At the inquest into the death of en elderly man. Michael Lane, who was found drowned in the Macquarie River on Thursday…

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Trouble at Apia Many Police Injured Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 1

Six Civil Fuller, while arresting a member of the M.A.C. at Apia on Saturday, were attacked by M.A.U. supporters. Police reinforcements…

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Overcome by Fumes Waitress Fatally Injured Seeks to Save Valuables AUCKLAND

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 1

When the room occupied by a waitress named Sadie Lynch, at Hotel Carmen, Auckland, after she bad been fatally injured was scarched £2000…

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North Dubbo Accident

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 2

Thrown from his bicycle near the Western Star Hotel on Saturday afternoon, a middle-aged man, William Rutherford, was removed by the…

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Coronial Inquiry Accidental Drowning

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 4

Mr. J. F. White, J.P., Deputy Coroner. held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Michael Lane, who was found dead in the Macquarie…

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Plane Crashes Seven Passengers Drowned London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 1

An Imperial Airways' plane, bounnd for Paris, was forced down in the Channel with engine trouble, three miles from Dungeness…

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