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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Tram Conductor Injured Swept Off Footboard May Lose Leg

Western Age · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 1

Keith Giles, 85, while collecting tickets on an old type tramear, at Waverley, was swept off the footboard, receiving a fractured right thigh and…

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Girl Shot in Head Pea Rifle Accident

Western Age · Friday 1 February 1935 · page 1

Alma Clara Jackson, aged ten, was practising on a plano at her father's farm at Coomberdale W.A. when her 12-year-old brother entered the room…

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Dinghy Capsizes Man Drowned—Boys Saved Brisbane, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 February 1935 · page 1

Thomas Boutland (50), of East Brisbane, was drowned when his dinghy capsized in Moreton Bay, to-day. Two boys Mervin and Colin Howard, were…

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Boy Killed Sister Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 February 1935 · page 1

A SiX-YEAR-OLD boy was crushed to death and his elder sister was critically injured yesterday, afternoon when a car overturned after…

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VALE [?] George Marks Tram Accident and Death

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 February 1935 · page 1

Earlier telegrams announced the death of E. George Marks, chief law reporter of "The Sun," and one of the picturesque personalities of the press…

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Federal Ministers Injured in Car Accident. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 5

The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Paterson) and Senator Brennan (Assistant Minister) were injured last night, when the…

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Bitten by Death Adder Goondiwindi Fatality

Western Age · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 1

Walford Fowler, aged 28, who claimed to be immune from the effects of snake bite, while showing a death adder to spectators at Goondiwindi, was…

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Crushed to Death Boy Killed on Western Highway Sister Injured

Western Age · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 1

A six-year-old boy was crushed to death and his elder sister was critically injured on Sunday afternoon when a car overturned after…

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Not a Car Accident

The Western Herald · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 2

Whenever anyone is found lying by the roadside a motor car is almost certainly assumed immediately to have been involved in…

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Derailed Truck Delays Train. Accident Near Maroona. Passengers and Mails. Brought to Town by Motor Cars

The Western Herald · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 4

On Tuesday afternoon last word reached town that a cattle waggon on the train had run off the line, between Maroona and…

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COLLISION Two Men Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 1

When a car and sulky collided at the intersection of Brisbane and Church Streets yesterday morning, two young men received injuries…

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Boy Drowned In Flooded River Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 1

During the heavy rains last night, Ronald Gardner, aged 12 years, was carried away by the current of the flooded Cook's River at Enfield, and…

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Nasty Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 4

On Friday morning last Messrs. "Paddy" Tiermey, W. Wakefield, L. Wrigley and Bob Alchin were engaged hauling logs at Mr Beames'…

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Cabinet Ministers Injured in Melbourne Car Accident

Western Age · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 3

The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Paterson), and Senator Brennan (Assistant Minister), were injured last night when a…

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Russian Train Disaster Head-on Collision

Western Age · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 1

Eighteen persons were killed and nine injured when a passenger train collided, bead on with a freight train at Karamstrognovo…

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The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Accident Statistics

The Western Herald · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 2

According to accident statistics recently issued in England, it looks as if the generally accepted idea that women motorists are, on the…

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MR. A. Morris Injured In Motor Collision

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 3

MR. Alf Morris, of Swift Street, one of Wellington's oldest and most respected residents, met with a serious accident on Saturday morning last,…

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Fell From Boat Orange Youth Drowned

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 1

WHEN he fell from a boat at Meadow Creek dam, at about six o'clock on Saturday Lennie Bastick (18) son of the head gardener of the Orange…

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Relief Worker Injured

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 21 February 1935 · page 4

What could easily have proved a fatal accident occurred yesterday morning, when a number of men engaged in clearing, under the…

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Costly Collision When Big Warships Bump London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1935 · page 1

Questioned in the House of Commons regarding the recent collision between H.M.S. Hood and H.M.S. Renown and the court martial of the…

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