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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

1,285 stories in Riverina's papers · page 10 of 65

Man Fatally Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 1

Gregory Lyall Gwynne, who was critically injured when his car collided with a motor bicycle at Narrabeen last night, died in the Manly…

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Racehorse Electrocuted Touched Live Wire Two Jockeys Injured Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 10

During training operations at Parawai racecourse to-day a broken electricity wire fell into the long grass. The raceacre Closeacre touched the…

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Fatal Car Accident Near Temora

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 6

A fatal motor car accident, in which one man was killed and another was so seriously injured that he is not expected to recover, occurred near…

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Youth Drowned Member of Military Camp Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

William Creig Green, aged 18 years, a member of the Second Division of the Militia Engineers, was drowned in the river near the Liverpool Camp this…

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Fatally Injured Man Falls From Lorry Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1

Alexander Clarke, aged 60 years, of Green street, Bankstown, was fatally injured last night when he fell from a lorry in the city. He was found lying…

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Seriously Injured Boy Falls Down 200-Foot Pit Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1

Noel Brailey, aged nine years, fell into a shale pit 200 feet deep at the Clyde brick works yesterday. He escaped death, but know in hospital in…

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Three Killed in Motor Accidents Melbourne Week-end Toll Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 1

Three persons were killed in car accidents yesterday. Alexander Mattinson, of Carrum, was fatally injured when a van containing a party of…

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Foot Amputated Boxing Referee's Accident Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 6

Jack Clough, wrestling referee at the Newcastle Stadium received injuries necessitating the amputation of his left root in a road accident at…

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Collision in Lane

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 3

Motor vehicles driven by Messrs. W. Davies and Darby Byrnes collided in the lane at the rear of S. Richards & Co., on Sunday…

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Swimmer's Back Injured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

While diving from the tower at the municipal, baths, Albury, on Sunday, Keith Moloney, aged 17 years, of Albert- street, Wagga, injured his back…

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Sinew Servered Scotch Lassie Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 6

Scotch Lassie, who was seriously injured while running in the Electric Handicap at Willamstown, on Saturday, may not be able tp rack again for…

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Bolting Horse Crashes Into Fence Woman Rider Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 3

MRS. SMITH, the wife of the local stationmaster, had a narrow escape from death on Sunday afternoon when the horse…

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Fatal Accident Death of Mr. Gordon KnoxI Lane

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

On Sunday afternoon last the friends of Mr. Gordon Knox Lane were shocked to team that he had died as the result of an Accident that had…

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A Painful Accident

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

Whilst cranking a car at the power house to-day, Mr. Edgar Gray, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gray, had the painful experience of…

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De Valera's Son Killed in Riding Accident DUBLIN

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 4
Also in Daily Advertiser

Brian, aged 20 years, an engineering, student at the Dublin University, and fourth son of the Prime Minister (Mr. de Valera), was galloping with his…

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Fatal Motor Accident Man Dies From Injuries Jammed Against Tree By Door of Truck

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

Mr. Gordon Knox Lane, aged 32 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Lane, of Caddie Station, about 13 miles from Narandera, died at the Narandera…

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Narandera Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

Mr. Gordon Knox Lane, aged 32 years. son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lane of Eurolie, died in Narandera hospital on Sunday, as a result of…

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Man Drowned in Dam

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 4

Charles Marshall Wells, aged 42 years, farmer, was drowned in a dan on his property near Temora on Sunday afternoon. With his daughter…

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