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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Motor Accident. Mr. W. M. Hughes and Senator Duncan the Occupants

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., add Senator Duncan passed through Gundagai on their way to Sydney per car, Mr. Hughes being at the…

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Motor Accident

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 5

On Saturday night, at about 9.15 p.m., near the 3-mile peg from Tumut on the Adelong Road. Mr. Andrew Davenport was driving a car,…

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Rothbury Inquest Coroners Verdict of Accidentally Shot a Riotous Attempt to Force a Way Police Exercised Ordinary Skill and Caution West Mattland

The Daily Express · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 1

The Coroner to-day found that Norman Brown was accidentally shot during the quelling of a riot at Rothbury. He added that the police used…

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Accidents to Children

The Daily Express · Tuesday 18 February 1930 · page 2

The Wagga District Ambulance last night reported having attended to two cases of accidents to children. On Sunday night a small-boy, O…

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Railway Collision Seventy Persons Injured London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 4

Seventy-persons were injured in a railway collison Rutherglen, near Glasgow, when one train dashed into the rear of another…

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Tarcutta Man Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 4

Charles 'Lloyd Jones, aged 20 years, of Tarcutta was seriously injured last night when he fell from a moving train on to the platform at, Granville…

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Items Of, News Baby Drowned at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 4

Leonard John, the 14-monthe-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lance Maley, was drowned on Sunday. The baby had wandered away from the house, and…

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Attacked by Rooster Child's Sight Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 4

While playing in the yard of his home at, Wampra, 80 miles beyond Bourke, a child named Jackson, aged 2 years, was attacked by a looster,…

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Motor Cycle on Fire Rider Seriously Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 2

A man who is believed to be George Turner, aged 28 years, of Alexandria, was critically injured in an unusual manner late last night. Turner was…

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Train Smash Seventy Injured Disaster Near Glasgow LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 1

Seventy were injured, of whom twenty remained in hospital, two suffering fractured skulls and two others with both legs fractured, and another…

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Spare Tyre Bursts Window Shattered Bus Passengers Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 1

When the spare tyre attached to the back of a Drummoyne bus travelling to Sydney burst this morning the window at the back of the bus was…

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Spare Tyre Bursts Window Shattered 'Bus Passengers Injured SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 1

When the spare tyre attached to the back of a Drummoyne bus travelling to Sydney burst, yesterday morning, the window at the back of the 'bus…

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Train Smash Seventy Injured Disaster Near Glasgow London, Feb. 17

The Daily Express · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 2

Seventy were injured, of whom twenty remained in hospital, two suffering fractured skulls and two others with both legs fractured, and…

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Motor Fatality Driver Denies Insobriety Goulburn

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 1

At the inquest into the death of Mrs. June Dominick, wife of George Dominick, ex-constable, of Goulburn, whose parents reside at Sandy Falls,…

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Sir Arthur Duckham Injured in Motor Smash Lacerated Wrist London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 1

When a taxicab in which Sir Arthur Duckham and four other were proceeding to the Gas Conference skidded and demolished a brick wall, the occupants…

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Coroner's Inquiry Drowning Fatality at Merungle Hill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

At the court house, Leeton, yesterday, Mr. W. C. Barker, J.P., held a formal inquiry into the death of L[?]d John Maley, the 14 months…

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Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

On Saturday night, near the three mile peg from Tumut on the Adelong road, Mr. Andrew. Davenport was driving a car accompanied by…

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Girl Drowned Brother's Premonition TEMORA

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 1

A brother's premonition of tragedy was a remarkable point in the death of Robina Mary Tucker, aged [?] daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George…

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Two Women Committed Fatality at Windsor Windsor

The Daily Express · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

Following an inquiry to-day into the death of Mrs. Rita Davey, allegedly after a certain event, the Coroner committed Susan Robertson and…

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Coolac Woman's Death. Car Fatality at Goulburn. Inquest Opened

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 2

A tragic circumstance of the fatal accident in Auburn Street, Goulburn, on Saturday night was disclosed at the inquiry into the…

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