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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Shocking Mudgee Fatality

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 4

A shocking fatality is reported as having occurred at Grattai, about 16 miles from Mudgee, whereby a wellknown district resident, named…

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Local Jottings Simple Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 2

As the result of a very simple, though dangerous, accident, a stranger to the town, a man named George McNaught Bennett, who…

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Nine Injured Motor Lorry Capsizes Gunnedah

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 1

Nine persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor lorry carrying a picnic party overturned five miles from Gunnedah yesterday…

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Train Derailed by Several Accidents

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 4

Several minor accidents were responsible for Saturday morning's [?] 1 train arriving late ut Dubbo. At Store Creek, the draw bar…

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Trucks Derailed Accident at Nubingerie

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 18 May 1931 · page 4

The pick-up train on route to Dubbo was delayed at Nubingerie Siding on Saturday afternoon, when several trucks were derailed. The passengers…

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Shocking Fatality Bright Life Lost Young Equestrienne Killed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon a shocking accident occurred on the Carter property, "Eudunda," a few miles from Narronmine, which resulted in the ending of…

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Nine Injured Motor Lorry Capsizes Gunnedah

Western Age · Wednesday 20 May 1931 · page 1

Nine persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor lorry carrying i picnic party overturned live miles from Gunnedah yesterday…

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Accidents

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 21 May 1931 · page 3

Little Patricia Brophy, the three-year old daughter of Mr. J. C. Brophy, had the misfortune to fracture her collar-bone recently, when she…

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Our Local Parliament General Monthly Meeting a Safeguard Against Accidents

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 21 May 1931 · page 4

At the May meeting of the Gilgandra Shire Council, Cr. McAllister suggested, that as they had already had one serious accident, an…

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Fatal Riding Accident. Girl Smashed Against a Tree

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 22 May 1931 · page 5

An accident of a particularly distressing nature, in which a young lady visitor from New Zealand lost her life, occurred at "Eudundah," the…

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Child Injured Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 4

Ellie McCann, aged two years, was found lying unconscious outside her home in Abercrombie-street, Redfern, yesterday. She was suffering from a…

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Thrown From a Horse Young Scotchman Killed. Shocking Fatality

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 2

A TERRIBLE fatality occurred at Gollan on Saturday last, when a young Scothman named David Caldwell, aped 23 years, lost his…

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Many Deaths On English Holiday Bad Motor Accidents London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 1

The Whitesuntide holiday ended in the death of many people. A motor car crashed through the railway gates near Lewes, and was…

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Fatal Burns Accident at Mascot Petrol Ignites Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 1

Percy Whitton, a motor driver, was filling the petrol tank of a Gipsy Moth in the Government hangar at Mascot, when the petrol suddenly became…

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Fatal Burns Accident at Mascot Petrol Ignites

Western Age · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 3

Perey Whitton, a motor driver was [?]illing the petrol tank of a Gipsy Moth in the Government hangar of Mascot. when the petrol suddenly became…

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Many Deaths On English Holiday Bad Motor Accidents

Western Age · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 1

The Whitesuntide holiday ended in the death of many people. A motor car crashed through the railway gates near Lewes, and was…

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Woman Killed Eleven Injured English Train Collision London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 1

A woman, identified as Mrs. Foster, was killed, and eleven injured in a collision to-day of the London north-eastern train from Dereham with a train…

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Sad Fatality

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 1

One of the saddest, accidents yet recorded in the Narromine district occurred last week at "Eudundah," the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carter,…

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The Gollan Fatality Open Verdict

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 1

AT the police court this morning, the Coroner, Mr. J. G. Muir, held an inquiry concerning the death of David Caldwell, who was killed…

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Shooting Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 4

Carl Etch (23) of Dubbo, was badly injured when he was shot in the body. Rich was looking down a rabbit-burrow when his companion…

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