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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Woman Injured Struck by Golf Ball a Remarkable Coincidence

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 6

A remarkable coincidence was associated with an accident which occurred on the New South Wales golf links at La Perouse on Saturday…

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Jumped Into Sea After Motor Accident Accused Man's Evidence Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 2

"I was so worried that I jumped into the sea and then swam to the rocks, where I stopped all night." This was part of an alleged remarkable…

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Car Hits Cycle Youth Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1933 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Mr. Lazzarini, M.L.A., was the driver of a car which came into collision with a motor cycle ridden by Wallace Robinson, aged 20 years, a…

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Mudgee Mail Derailed Landslide at Excelsior One Passenger Injured Sydney, 1 a.m

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 May 1933 · page 1

The mail train which left Mudgee at 7.46 o'clock last night for Sydney was derailed near Excelsior. 55 miles from Mudgee, about 10.30 o'clock. A…

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Flood In India 200 Workmen Drowned. Calcutta

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 May 1933 · page 15

Two hundred workmen engaged on the construction of a bridge over the river Moj at Gondal, one of the Kathiawar states of Western India,…

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Items of News Cyclist Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1933 · page 2

Mr. G. Heydon, of 124 Gurwood street, Wagga, received a fractured collarbone ae the result of a fall from a bicycle caused through a collision…

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Collision at Brucedale

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1933 · page 4

Mr. E. W. Wilesmith, president of the Junee Hospital Board, had driven his wife, who has been in indifferent health for some time, to the Wagga…

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Accident

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1933 · page 2

Whilst Mr. Ray Heinrich was motoring at Milbrulong, to avoid a sheep, he swerved the car into a stump causing it to capsize…

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Car in Collision When Returning From Funeral Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 May 1933 · page 1

Four persons were injured, one seriously, when a car in which they were returning from a funeral collided with a most waggon at Banks…

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Motor Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 May 1933 · page 5

On Saturday evening a serious motor accident happened on the Wagga-Junee road, in front of the old Brucedale school. Mr. E. W. Wilesmith…

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67 Killed, Many Injured Livingston (Tennessee), Thurs

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 May 1933 · page 1

Sixty-seven persons were killed and an undetermined number injured, in a series of tornadoes which swept the States of Kentucky and Tennessee…

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Leeton Jockey Boy Injured When Hurdler Fell at Caulfield

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 May 1933 · page 2

Riding in the Hurdle Race at Caul field last Monday, F. Peacock, son of Mr. C. Peacock, of Leeton, who is a well known jockey down Melbourne…

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Orderly Crowds Voters Injured Women Struck by Cab Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 2

voting in the metropolitan a[?]a yesterday was quiet and orderly. The electors took the referendum very seriously, and it was noticeable that there…

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Woman Killed Car Driver Arrested Man Seriously Injured SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 1

Following a sensational chase by police through the city of motor car which was alleged to have fatally injured, a woman and seriously injured…

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Woman Killed Car Driver Arrested Man Seriously Injured Sensational Chase Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1933 · page 1

Following a sensational chase by police through the city streets of a motor car which was alleged to have fatally injured a woman and seriously…

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Painful Accident at Murrami Miniature Explosion From Soldering Iron

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 May 1933 · page 2

Mr. Harry Bradford met with a painful accident at his home at Murrami last weak, necessitating a few days' treatment in "Allanbrook"…

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Wagga 'Bus Mishap on Hampden Bridge Serious Accident Narrowly Averted

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 May 1933 · page 2

A very serious accident was narrowly averted yesterday afternoon, shortly before 2 o'clock, when a grown bus one of the fleet or…

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Tragic Motor Fatality

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1933 · page 1

Profound sorrow and unfeigned regret were universally felt over the whole district when residents learned of the tragic death of Charles…

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Jockeys' Escape Car Accident at Woodend Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1933 · page 6

A motor car bound for the Bendig races to-day collided with a cow at Woodend and dived into a lagoon about three feet deep and capeized…

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