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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Car Fatality Sedan Overturns

Western Age · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 1

Arthur Henry Roffe, 34, was fatally injured when a large sedan car ran over a steep embankment in Burns' Bay Road, Lane Cove. The…

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Boating Fatality. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 5

While William Kent, 54. am inmate of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Blackburn (Vic), accompanied by Ronald Stevenson, was…

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Building Accident Worker's Serious Fall

Western Age · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 1

While working on a new block of flats at Manly, John Mulhearn, 42, a hod carrier, lost his balance on the second floor level, and…

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Motor Accident "Hit and Run" Driver

Western Age · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 1

While three youths and a girl were walking abreast in the Prince's Highway, Corrimal, on Sunday, they were knocked down by a sedan car…

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Vehicles Involved in Accidents

The Western Herald · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 2

A return issued by Scotland Yard showing the type of vehicle involved in street accidents resulting in injury in the London…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Western Herald · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 4

Whilst two young motor cycle enthusiasts were testing their machines over the billabong on Tuesday afternoon, they collided and…

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Eugowra Races Jockey Critically Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 4

THE racing at Eugowra on Thursday afternoon last came to a sudden conclusion after the second race—the Flying Handicap—in which two…

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Into a Lake Girl Drowned Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 1

Miss Joyce Laing, 18 years of age, a domestic, was drowned last night, when a car containing a number of passengers, crashed through…

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Motor World Happenings News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Level Crossing Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 4

According to the British Ministry of Transport's annual report on railway accidents in 1934, one person was…

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'Plane Crashes Occupants Injured In Hospital. Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 1

A Moth aeroplane of the Royal Air Force crashed near Point Cook, Victoria, yesterday and was wrecked, the…

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Quarry Row Injured Man in Hospital Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 1

Struck on the head at the Preston quarries, by a stone which it is olleged was thrown deliberately at him, Robert' Graham (45), a sustenance worker…

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Moth Crashes Two Air Force Men Injured Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 1

A Moth aeroplane of the Royal Australian Air Force crashed near Point Cook and was wrecked. The two occupants, Flying-Officer E. D. Scott and…

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Left Nervy & SLEEPLESS Result of a Motor Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 5

"Eight years ago I was involved in a motor accident, which left me in a low, depressed condition," states Miss G. S. R.,of Haberfiekl, N.S.W. "I…

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Serious Accident Danger of Wood Cutting

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 2

Wood cutting is part of the daily life of the average man and although quite a simple job, is still dangerous. This…

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Man Drowned Boating Fatality

Western Age · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 1

While William Kent, 54, an inmate of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Blackburn, Victoria, accompanied by Ronald Stevenson, was rowing in a…

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Trapped in Car Young Woman Drowned

Western Age · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 1

Miss Joyce Laing, 18, a domestic, was drowned when a motor car containing a number of passengers crashed through a fence at…

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Accident to Mr J. R. Kelly Unable to Appear Before Local Land Board

Western Age · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 2

At the recent sitting at Cobar of the Local Land Board (Mr. A. Britton chairman, and Mr. G. B. Cullenward), it was stated that Mr. J. R. Kelly had…

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Local and General Children Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 2

Thrown from a horse at the corner of Erskine and Darling Streets, on Thursday afternoon, Reg. Collahan (7), of Darling Street, suffered a nasty wound…

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Three Drowned End of Cruise Hobart

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 1

Gordon J. Doherty, of Sydney, who set out to make a cruise of 4000 mies in his 16 foot boat, "The Pup"…

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Children Drowned Elder Brother Tries to Save Boy Brisbane

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 1

Two brothers, John Moriarty, aged nine years, and Ronald Moriarty, aged seven years, were drowned in a deep…

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