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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Motor Car Overturns Five Persons Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

Five persons were injured, two critically, when a motor car overturned at Caringbah, near Sutherland, to-night. The accident was caused through a…

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Fish Hoek Railway Accident. No Apparent Cause Fortitude of Victims Cape Town

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

while railway officials declare that there is no apparent cause for last night's railway accident, in which one European and five natives were killed,…

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Recovered From Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

Mr. T. B. Collins, brother of Mr. M. S. L. Collins of Leeton, who sustained severe injuries by being thrown from his horse at Bringagee…

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Serious Accident

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

On Thursday afternoon of last week. Be[?] E[?] (24) was cutting wood on Mr. Claude Jessup’s farm and when walking from one woo[?] to…

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Boy Drowned. Murwillumbah

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 6

William Lewis, aged 12 years, who was on holiday from Brisbane, was drowned at Dum Dum yesterday. Lewis was among some children at a…

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Man and Boy Drowned Auckland (N.z)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 6

Claude Kidston aged 22 years, a visitor from Sydney and Allan Greig, aged 10 years were drowned in the Waipi River. Kidston tried to carry…

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Boy Injured. Motorist Sent for Trial Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

Walter Tilston Cunningham, aged 34 years, motor driver, was committed for trial at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge, that while…

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Motoring Fatality Elderly Man Killed His Wife Seriously Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

William Wyatt, aged 70 years, with his wife, aged 65 years, was driving a motor car near Oaklcigh to-day when a big car, containing seven persons,…

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Sulky Fatality West Mattland

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

Pter Campbell, a well known farmer of Rosebrook, was killed when he was thrown from his sulky yesterday. He endeavored to poss a man who was…

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Temora Fatality Tragic End of Mrs. Dietz

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 4

The residents of Temora received a shock on Friday morning when they learned that Mrs. Clara Dietz (who would have been 84 years old in…

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Motor Cycle Mishap Rider Seriously Injured SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 1

When a bar joining a side-ear to a motor cycle broke at Fairfield yesterday afternoon the cycle ridden by James Noble, aged 26 of Granville,…

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Four Injured. When Delivery Van Skids Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

Four persons were injured, two seriously, when a motor delivery waggon, owned by the Fresh Food and lee Co., was wrecked in Parramatta road,…

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Motor Cycle Mishap. Rider Seriously Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

When a bar joining a side-car to a motor cycle broke at Fairfield this afternoon the cycle, riddem by James Nobel, aged 26 years, of Granville, got…

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Crashed Into River Train Disaster at Burma 40 Killed; 30 Injured CALCUTTA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 4

TWENTY WERE killed and 30 injured in a railway disaster 100 milles from Rangoon on the main line. The Mandalay mall train…

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Another Motor Accident on Ttemora Road

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

Another motor ear accident was added to the big list of those that have occurred around Cootamundra lately, when Mr. Ernie…

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Serious Riding Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 2

Claude M'Carthy, aged 14 years, received serious injury on Saturday night as the result of being thrown from his horse. Claude and Leslie, the two…

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Tram Accidents Two Boys Run Over. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 1

There were two cases of boys being run over by trams to-day. The first occurred at Five Dock, when Normal Page, aged 16 years, slipped off the…

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Motoring Fatality Elderly Man Killed His Wife Seriously Injured MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 4

William Wyatt aged 70, with his wife, aged 65, was driving a motor car near Oakleigh. yesterday, when a big car, containing seven persons,…

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Twin Brothers Drowned Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

William Smith and his twin brother Walter were drowned when their canoe capsized on the lake at Eildon Weir yesterday. Evelyn Fraser, aged…

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Cootamundra Car Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

Another motor car accident was added to the big list of those that have occurred in the Cootamundra district lately when Ernie Ronnings car came…

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