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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Latest Telegrams. Monday's News Fishing Fatality

The Western Herald · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 2

A launch containing a fishing party drifted on to the ledge of a rock six miles north of Cronulla yesterday morning and capsized. Font of the…

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Railway Fatality Fettler's Fearful End Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 1

Gilbert Woodey, aged 45, a fettler, fell beneath the wheels of an electric train at Concord West this morning and was killed instantly, the body…

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Religious Bathers Drowned in Waterfalls Calcutta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1933 · page 1

Thirteen of a party of 31 religious bathers were drowned in the flooded Courtallum Waterfalls in South India…

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Fell From Horse Lady Visitor Badly Injured

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 5

Miss May Harding, of Sydney, who has been on a visit to the district as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. Cox and family, of…

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Accident to Mrs. Gordon Leeds

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 5 October 1933 · page 5

When entering a city bound tram at King's Cross on Tuesday night, Mrs. Gordon Leeds of "Dooroombah," Toorweenah, received a severe…

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Young Stribling Critically Injured

Western Age · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 3

Young Stribling, the heavyweight boxer, was critically injured when struck by an automobile while riding a motor [?] It was necessary to…

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Leg Crushed to Pulp Accident to Thos. Golsby

Western Age · Friday 6 October 1933 · page 2

At the 15-mile peg on the Barringun Road, on Monday afternoon, Mr. Thos. Golsby, a member of the gang employed by the Public Works…

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Boating Fatality Gallant Attempt Fails to Save His Mate Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 1

When a rowing boat containing two men foundered about 30 yards from the bank of the Tweed River at South Murwillumbah yesterday, Richard Peck…

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STRIKERS Attack Volunteers One Injured. Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 1

About one hundred strikers and sympathisers attacked two buses containing volunteer meat workers on the Geelong road in Victoria last…

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Eight Injured In Charabanc Accident Melbourne, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1933 · page 6

A four-seater charabanc, travelling from Melbourne to Canberra, crashed into a culvert near Wallan to-day, and overturned…

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Fractured Skull Electrician Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1933 · page 6

A fractured skull, following a severe shock and burns when he came into contact with an electric wire, was the injury sustained by Mr. F. J. Spargo…

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DROWNED Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 1

George Davis, of Warrnambool, Victoria, with his son Ronald, aged 10 years, disappeared from the banS of the Hopkins River yesterday…

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Washed From Rocks. Two Drowned. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 1

While fishing from the rocks at the light house on Cape Maria Van Dieman, New Zealand, yesterday, the assistant keeper, Newsome; his-wife,…

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Two Killed Road Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 1

Two persons were killed and many injured, several seriously in motoring accidents yesterday. Wally Rose (23), of Cabramatta,…

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Street Collision Car and Cycle Crash Bathurst

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 1

Two children, Ken Grant (10) and Gloria Simpson (8) were double-banking on a bicycle yesterday, when they collided with an oncoming motor car…

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Fishing Fatality Three Men's Lives in Doubt Port Fairy

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 1

Three shermen, named W. E. Wilson, licensee of the Commercial Hotel at Port Fairy, Percy Kerney, fisherman, and the latter son, Roy Kerney, are…

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Four Accidents at Six-hour Sports

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 2

A terrific crash in the semi-final of the Bob Spears Handicap, at the Six-Hour cyclings sports yesterday, resulted, in W. Bamford, of Mudgee…

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Bridge Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 1

When he fell from his bicycle to the road on the other side of the White Bridge yesterday afternoon, Francis Norris (60), sustained nasty abrasions…

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Motor Fatality Man & Woman Killed Car Crashed Through Bridge Tenterfield

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 19 October 1933 · page 1

Miss Rita Ferrier and Mr. Norman Warren were killed instantly, when a motor car crashed through a bridge, near Tenterfield, and was wrecked…

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Accident to Allan Dohnt

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 19 October 1933 · page 4

An accident to Mr, Allan Dohnt, of "Bonnington," Eumungerie, occurred on Tuesday of last week, at the siding near the six-mile peg on…

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