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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Two Men Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 2

Allan Gregson, of Gerogery, is a patient in the Albury District Hospital suffering from injuries which are extremely serious. His brother Lawrence…

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Ebeling Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 2

Hans Ebeling, captain of the Victorian Sheffield Shield team, tore a muscle between the ribs and the small of his back while bowling against…

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Wagga Militiamen in Motor Accident on Hume-highway Six Reported Injured None Seriously

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

Failing to take a bend in the road, a car, in which six members of the Wagga militia, were returning to Wagga from a shooting match at…

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Wagga Militiamen In Motor Accident on Hume Highway Six Reported Injured None Seriously WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

Falling to take a bend in the road, a car, in which six members of the Wagga milltia were returning to Wagga from a shooting match at…

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Two Children Drowned Fell Into Brick Pit Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

While helping their grandfather to gather firewood at Enoggera to-day Marjorie Osborne, aged 9 years, and her sister Jean, aged 11 years, were…

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Doctors Injured Bombing of Swedish Red Cross World-wide Indignation London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

It is officially announced from Addis Ababa that two Swedish doctors were injured, 30 Abyssinians killed, and 50 Abyssinians injured in the Italian…

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Schooling accident Lucky Escape for Jockey SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 7

When schooling the Wagga gelding Canonray over the bit hurdies at Randwick yesterday morning, L. Abrahams had a remarkable escape from…

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Schooling Accident Canonray Falls Lucky Escape for Abrahams Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

When schooling title Wagga gelding, Canonray over the big hurdles at Randwick yesterday morning, L. Abrahams had a remarkable escape from serious…

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Cootamundra Man Missing for Several Weeks Now at Jerilderie Scalding Accident Brings Back Memory

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 2

Mr. Norman Pinkstone, of Cootamundra, who has been missing from Cootamundra for several weeks, has been found at Jerilderie…

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Hospital Bombed Two Doctors Injured Swedish Red Cross Unit

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 1

It is officially announced at Addis Ababa that information received from Dolo, in Southern Abyssinia, wh ere a Swedish Red Cross unit was bombed…

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Motor Accident Victims

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 4

Edward Hedditch and Clifford Best, who, with four others, were concerned in a motor car accident on Thursday when returning from a rifle shoot at…

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Loss of Memory Mr. N. Pinkstone Found Accident Restores Memory

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 2

After having been missing since October 28, when he disappeared from the Hotel Sydney, Sydney,' Mr. Norman Pinkstone, of Cootamundra, was…

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Motor Accident Wagga Men in Hospital

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 2

Returning from Wangaratta, where they had taken part in a rifle shooting match on New Year's Day, six members of the Wagga Militia were…

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Items of News Wheat Loader Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 2

Mr. J. Meee, of the Junee district, while loading' wheat in the Finley railway yards, was injured and taken to hospital…

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Drowned in Murray When Boot Overturns MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

Thomas James Holmes was drowned in the Murrny river at Esmond when a flat-bottomed boat capsized yesterday. Holmes caught a fish hook in…

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Drowned in Murray When Boat Overturns Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

Thomas James Holmes was drowned in the Murray River at Esmond when a flat-bottomed boat .capsized to-day. Holmes caught a fish hook in his…

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Spectators Injured Midget Cars Crash Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

Two spectators were injured, but not seriously, when two cars collided during midget car races last night and crashed through the fence…

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Woman Killed Two Persons Injured MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

A woman was killed ana her husband and sister-in-law were injured when a motor car struck a tree near Crelghton Creek bridge, Euroa…

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Fatal Collision Motor Cycle Strikes Lorry Man and Child Killed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

A man and child were killed, and John Brown, aged 50 years, of Paddingston, was injured this afternoon in a smash at the corner of Anzac Parade…

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Woman Killed Two Persons Injured Ariah Park Residents Motor Car Strikes Tree

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 3

A woman was killed and her husband and sister-in-law were injured when a motor car struck a tree near C[?] Creek bridge, Euroa, on…

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