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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Congress Celebrations Police Disperse Crowds Many Persons Injured Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 1

A Congress celebration on "Independence Day" led to an attempt to hold a mass meeting at Calcutta this afternoon. The crowds were dispersed by…

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Motor Cycle Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

Mr. Henry Mills, of Wagga, when returning from the speedboat carnival at Lake Albert on Monday evening on his racing motor cycle, was thrown…

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Mob Fixed on Five Killed; Many Injured Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

Five persona were killed and a large number injured when the police fired on a mob of 10,000 at Bedusari, following the Independence Day processions…

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Accident

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

A rather serious accident happened on Thursday evening last to Walter Que. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Que, of Hillston, who is employed at the…

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River Tragedy Young Man Drowned CANBERRA

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

A drowning fatality involved the death of Loftus Robert Ruffles, 21, son of Sergeant Ruffles, Queanbeyan, and cousin to Mr. Harry Ruffles,…

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Believed Drowned Police Search for Body Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

The police are dragging the river near Kippilaw for the body of a man who, it is thought, was been drowned. A swag was found on the river bank…

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Injured Footballer Brought to Sydney by Air SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

The aeroplane, Western Star, arrived in Sydney yesterday from Rockhampton (Q.), with an injured footballer named Politz. He came to…

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Red Flag Hauled Down Darwin Communists Routed Three Policemen Injured Two Other Men In Hospital Darwin (N.a.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

A red flag, which was hosted on the Government offices yesterday was hauled down by the Communists yesterday afternoon. The police made a…

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Young Man Drowned Girl's' Frantic Sruggles

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 5

Loftus Ruffels, of Queanbeyan, was drowned in the Cotter River, near Canberra, on Monday afternoon. Ruffels jumped into the swimming…

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Motor Ship Re-floated Injured Seaman's Death Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

The English motor-ship Enton, which was stranded on a reef near Noamea, has sailed again. A seaman, who had his leg severed when the crash…

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Drowned in Canal Man's Body Recovered Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

James Class, a young man, who had been camped in Griffith near the main canal, was found drowned in the canal on Saturday morning. His clothes…

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THe Cootamundra Railway. Accident, January 26, 1885

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 3

"Blue Gum," in the Tumut "Express": The rain which set in this Saturday evening (January 24, 1931), reminds me of the phenomenal fall of…

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Steamer Niagara Crashes Into Pier Accident at Vancouver Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

With a crash which startled the entire waterfront, the trans-Pacific steamer Niagara rammed the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's cement…

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Boy Injured Accident with Gun Orange

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1

[?], AGED [?]0 years, whose parents live at Orange, returned from rabbit shooting carrying a double bar[?]elled gun over his shoulder with the…

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Drowned in Canal Man's Body Recovered at Griffith

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 3

James Cass, a young man, who had been camped in Griffith near the main canal, was found drowned in the canal on Saturday morning. His…

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Motor Van and Sulky Collide Latter Overturned Mrs Ben Day Injured

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 2

Mrs. Ben. Day, of Mondongo, sustained a cut to the back of her head and laceration of a leg in a collision between Owanyilla Bacon…

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Fatal Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 3

On Friday last Fred Bland, son of Mr. Archie Bland, of Narandera, fell on a circular saw while breaking down logs at Ungarie. Both his legs…

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Items of News Boy Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

Last night, at about 7 o'clock a little boy, Jimmy Anning, 4½ years of age, son of Mr. G. Anning, bootmaker, residing in Fox-street, Wagga, Slipped…

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'Plane Crashes Disaster Averted Occupants Injured "Shots" For Moving Picture LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

Luck and skill were combined to avert disaster when an Avro biplne, piloted by Richard Bush who was accompanied by Stanley Rockwell, a…

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Seaplane Overturns Accident in Harbor. Occupants Rescued Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 2

A seaplane, an attempting to rise from the sea off Dobroyd Point this afternoon was struck by a wave and turned over. The pilot of the machine…

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