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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Painful Accident Girl Badly Scalded

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1

Miss Jean Angel, a popular member of Dubbo's younger set, met with a painful accident this morning and is now an inmate of the District…

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Motor Lorry Skids Boy Seriously Injured Accident Near Bathurst

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 7

Jack Downey, a 14-year-old boy, it an inmate of Lithgow-Hospital suffering from a fractured skull, the result of a motor…

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Shocking Fatality Youth Killed Near Gulgong

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 7

News has reached Mudgeo of the death of young "Tony" Stacy, son of the late Mr. P. S. Stacy and Mrs. Stacy, of Combandry near Gulgong…

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Unemployed Riot Police Clash With Workless Five Injured DARWIN

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

In a clash between unemployed and police early yesterday morning, two policemen and five rioters were injured. The police sought to remove the…

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A Painful Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 2

A very painful accident befel Mr. Keith Brien, of Neurea, on Thursday last. He was engaged working a mowing machine, and…

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Cars in Collision

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4

When two cars came into collision at the corner of Wilga and Aberford Street, Coonamble on Saturday morning, what would certainly have been…

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Jack Sands Injured

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

Mr. Jack Sands a former G[?]gandra resident, met with a serious accident by falling from the balcony of Tatter[?]'s Hotel, Baradine on…

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Terrible Death-roll Checking the Fire. Thousands Injured. Wellington (N.Z.)

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 3

The latest estimate of the dead in Hastings and Napier is 400. A correspondent of the "New Zaeland Herald" reports there are 450 dead at…

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Seaplane Crash Eight Dead--Four Critically Injured Victims Trapped in Cabin London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 1

An R.A.F. seaplane, with twelve aboard, crashed into Plymouth Sound. Four wore critically Injured, while eight are missing…

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Terrible Drowning Fatality. At Nyngan. Two Married Women the Victims

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5

Nyngan is, to-day, shocked by a terrible drowning fatality which occurred about 7 o'clock last night (Thursday), when two well-known…

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Sad Drowning Case Youthful Victim

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 1

About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the police received a report that a drowning fatality had occurred near the traffic bridge on the Macquarie River…

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Residents in Collision. Three Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 4

WORD has been received in town, of the head-on collision between two cars yesterday afternoon at a turn of the Bathurst-Oberon road, about two…

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Drowning Fatality at DUBBO Ex-Wellington Man's End

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3

A DROWNING fatality took place in the Macquarie River at Dubbo on Friday afternoon, when a well-known resident of that town, named…

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Brothers Injured Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

Two brothers, named Rollinghoss, white picnicking near Cattal, Windsor, yesterday, received numerous pellet wounds from a shot gun. Both were…

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A Close Thing. Boy Nearly Drowned Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

A lad by the name of Bob Roy, aged 15 years, was fishing from the breakwater at Wollongong yesterday, when, he was washed into a rough…

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Three Drowned When Launch Capsized WELLINGTON, N.Z.

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

When a fishing launch capsized in a choppy sea, near Wellington, New zealand, three persons lost their lives, namely, J. Stuart (50), H. Stuart (20),…

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Three Men Drowned Tragic End to Fishing Party Wellington (N.Z.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

When a fishing launch capsized in a choppy sea near Wellington (N.Z.) yesterday, three people were drowned, namely J. Stuart, aged 50,…

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Man Drowned in Macquarie River. Mate's Rescue Attempt Fails Dragged-Under Water Police and Civilians Search For Body

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3

Thought to have become exhausted after swimming across the Macquarie River, Moffat Alexander Horne (21), was drowned about…

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Ambulance Activities Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 3

LAST Thursday, as P. Austin was riding his cycle along Nanima Crescent, a dog rushed out at a car, and in doing so ran in front of Austin's…

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A Drowning Man How to Rescue Him

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 3

[?] deaths from drowning in the [?] River show that few people, [?] good swimmers, know how to [?] a drowning man in the water…

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