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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Sad Burning Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 21 June 1934 · page 6

It is with extreme regret we announce a burning accident which may have had very serious results. On Tuesday night of last week, Miss…

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Car Accident Inquest Adjourned To Enable Driver to be Present Conflicting Evidence as to Speed

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 21 June 1934 · page 4

Lengthy, conflicting And at times vague evidence was elicited from witnesses at the inquest held at the Gilgandra Police on…

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Fishing Fatality Two Men Swept Out to Sea

Western Age · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 4

Two men, believed to be Herbert Henry Foote (52), and Charles William Schultz (25), while preparing to fish off the rocks at the foot of North…

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Serious Car Accident a Car Driver Charged

Western Age · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 1

When two cars overturned after colliding at the intersection of Bridge-road and Harris-street, Pyrmont, Ivo Doyle ([?]0), manager of Willara…

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Car Damaged Narromine Road Collision

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1934 · page 1

When a Chevrolet car and an International lorry collided on the Narromine Road, about 23 miles from Dubbo, on Thursday night, the car was badly…

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3 Boys Injured Hit-Run Motorist

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 June 1934 · page 1

Three youths were injured, one seriously, when struck at Granville late Saturday afternoon by a motor car, the driver of which, according…

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Shooting Fatality

The Western Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 2

Hobart.—Answering a call from outside his house at Narrow last night, John Hoare (64) was shot dead as soon as he opened the…

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Two Pilots Killed Collision in Mid-air

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 6

When two planes collided in mid-[?] near Parafield Aerodrome late Saturday afternoon, two pilots [?] killed, Lawrence Newman, an [?]…

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Air Collision Three Pilots Killed London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 1

Three flying officers were killed when two instructional machines collided near Bristol to-day. The fourth occupant of one of the…

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Accident Sequel Young Driver Charged

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1934 · page 2

The sequel to the car accident on the Wellington Road on May 24, when Gordon Grant sustained serious injuries, was heard in the…

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Tranche Tidings and Topics Accident Sequel. Young Driver Charged

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 8

The sequel to the car accident on the Wellington road on May 24, when Gordon Grant sustained serious injuries, was heard in the Dubbo Police…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Britain's Accident Figures

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 July 1934 · page 5

In the first quarter of this year there was a serious increase in the number of street accidents in Great Britain, as compared with the…

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Nearly a Tragedy Accident at the River

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 July 1934 · page 3

A serious tragedy was narrowly averted on Saturday, when, with a strong wing blowing along the river, a young couple who had set out for…

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Injured by Passing Train Child's Ordeal

Western Age · Friday 6 July 1934 · page 1

Jessie Campbell, aged 13, sustained severe lacerations to her head and concussion when she put her head out of the carriage window of a train leaving…

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GILGANDRA Polo Player Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1934 · page 4

Mr. Dougal Kennedy, well-known local sportsman and grazier, met with a painful accident when he fell from his horse, a few days before the polo…

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Bombing Fatality Plane and Pilots Incinerated London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1934 · page 1

When four Air Force Hart bombers were practising diving from an altitude of 8000 ft., at a bombing target resembling a battleship, at Andover, one…

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DROWNED Pilot's Fate. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 9 July 1934 · page 1

A Gipsy Moth 'plane got out of control while flying over Moreton Bay, Brisbane, yesterday, dived into the water, and Pilot John Burrows,…

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Riding Accident Farmer's Sorry Plight Casino

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1934 · page 1

While Donald Allen (30) was riding a horse on a farm, 30 miles from Casino, the animal fell and rolled on him. For more than six hours he lay…

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Nasty Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1934 · page 1

Mr. C. Gibbs Beckett, for years with the Manchester Unity Journal, and one of the Dominions' best known newspaper men, met with a nasty…

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Car Fatality at Hexham Woman Suffocated

Western Age · Friday 13 July 1934 · page 4

When a car swerved to avoid a collision with another car on the Maitland Road, at Hexham, Newcastle, it overturned, pinning three persons…

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