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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,260 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 63

J. Pratt Sustains Concussion Accident at Moorefield Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 4

When the apprentice, J. Pratt, returned to the Saddling Paddock at Moorefield on Saturday after falling off Clarence, it was thought that he was…

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Wagga Couples in Car Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

On Sunday morning a sheep that was standing by the side of the road on the Hume Highway at South Wangaratta, suddenly darted in front of a…

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Aeroplane Accident Wings of Machine Torn Off Mudgee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Taking off from a paddock this afternoon, an aeroplane piloted by Mr. T. Lonergan, with Mr. Campbell as passenger, crashed into a fence and was…

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Accident at Borambola

The Daily Express · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

A nasty accident befell Mr. E. Graham at Borambola yesterday afternoon. He was repairing a haystack, which had been damaged by a…

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Level Crossing Accident Gates Close on Car Train Dashes Through Car Occupant Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 1

At Hampton last night William John Kitto, aged 54 years, a motor driver, had his right leg badly injured and his left leg mutilated when a motor…

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Fall of Earth Man Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 1

James Dowling, aged 32 years, received severe injuries this morning when about half a ton of earth fall in a pit at Alexandria and buried him…

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Wood Pierces Chest Motor Cyclist Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 4

Jack M'Clintock, aged 24 years, of Woy Woy, was shockingly injured this afternoon when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor car. A…

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Two Killed Another Injured Car Overturns Quirindi

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 6

Two men were killed and another was seriously injured when a motor car overturned near Wallabadah this morning. The killed were: A man…

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Nuns in Car Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 4

A party of six nuns, travelling from Goulburn to Wombat in a light car, had an amazing escape from injury on Saturday afternoon. When turning at…

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Extraordinary Fatality

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 2

A child named Morton met his death in a peculiar manner at Toowoomba, Queensland. After putting a knitting needle into his mouth he…

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Items of News Boy Saved From Drowning

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 2

Alan Macdonald, aged 8 years, was nearly drowned in the Cootamundra stock dam yesterday. He disappeared under the water, but was found by W…

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Escaped Drowning Child Fell Into Dam Cootamundra

The Daily Express · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 3

Alan Macdonald, 8 years old, was nearly drowned in the Cootamundra stock dam to-day. He disappeared under the water, but was found by…

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Nearly Drowned Excitement at the Stock Dam

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 2

Allen B. McConell, aged 10, son or Mr. and Mrs. William McDoneil, 01 Queen street, had a narrow escape from losing his life, yesterday…

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Road Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 2

William Hardy, of Mckenzie street, Young, met with an accident on Tuesday while engaged working with his brother on a road contract in the…

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Boy Drowned Swimming in Creek Albury

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 8

Edward Lancelot Rodier, aged 13 years, accompanied by another lad, went for a swim an a deep hole in Dickenson Creek and suddenly…

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Accident at Cannery

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

While loading lug cases on to a cart at the cannery on Tuesday, Mr. F. D. Inman fell between the platform and the vehicle, dislocating his…

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Serious Scalding Accident

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

On Sunday morning last there was a serious scalding accident at Lysterfield. Mrs. Pertzell had placed a bucket of boiling water on the verandah,…

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Boy Drowned

The Daily Express · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 8

Edward Lancelot Rodier, 13, son of Mr. T. Rodler, farmer, of Talgarne, was drowned in Dickenson creek on Wednesday afternoon…

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Camperdown Fatality Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 1

In connection with the death of Mrs Una Norman, after taking a dose of poison, at Camperdown, it transpires that the woman's proper name is…

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