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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Gale Sweeps England Two Seamen Drowned Channel Services Canceled. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 1

A terrific gale swept England to-day and so fair two seamen have lost their lives. Extreme cold prevails and the weather forecast is that it will…

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Air Liner Crashes Six Injured in Africa Johannesburg

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 1

The Imperial Airways liner Artemia crashed when taking off at Petersburg to-day. Both pilots were seriously injured and four of the six passengers…

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Drowned in Dam Fatality at Temora

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 3

Well-known and highly rejected farmer of the Tembora district, Mr. Charles Marshall Wells., 42, was drowned in a dam about…

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Youth Killed Four Others Injured in Car Collision Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 3

A youth was killed and his mother, brother arid two other people injured this afternoon when one car crashed into the rear of another. The…

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Disastrous Fire in City Tyre Factory. Four Firemen Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 1

A fire broke out early this morning in the premises occupied by Baker's tyre works, in Liverpool street, Sydney, and spread to an engineering…

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Sad Drowsing Fatality at Bectric Mr. Marshall Wells Drowned in Dam

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 3

Well-known and highly respected farmer of Bectric, Mr. Charles Marshall shall Wells 42 was [?] in a dam about a quarter of a mile from the…

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Youth Fatally Injured Warren

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 4

Patrick Cornell, aged 13 years, was riding home from school to-day when his bicycle collided with a motor lorry. His skull was fractured and he died…

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Badly Injured Workman Overbalances SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 1

John Foley, while working at a hotel at Sydenham which is being demolished, overbalanced, and hurtled below on to a pile of broken bricks,…

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Youth Drowned Flooded Creek at Goulburn Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 4

Kenneth White, aged 10 yean, was drowned in a creek at the southern end of the town yesterday wien it rose rapidly following a thunderstorm…

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Fatal Accident Mr. Stanley A. Fraser Dies From Injuries

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 2

Some days ago Mr. Stanley Allan Fraser, a resident of Narandera for some time, met with an accident that resulted in his death at the District…

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The King's Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 3

The English accent wan discussed by Mr. Harold Nicolson, the well-known biographer, when he addressed the members of the English…

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Farmer Drowned

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 10

Charles Marshall Wells, 42, a well known farmer of the Temora district was drowned in a dam on his property on Sunday. With his four…

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Painter Electrocuted a Young Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 6

Touching a live wire carrying the Young township supply, James Smith (22), was electrocuted on. Tuesday while painting, the guttering of a…

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Man Injured Fell on to Broken Bricks Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 1

George Poley, aged 33 years, while working on the old General Gordon Hotel, Sydenham, which is being demolished, overbalanced and hurtled…

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Accidental Death The Cookardinia Tragedy Dangerous Turn in Road

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M.), this morning held an inquest at the Wagga Court House concerning the death of Alwyn…

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Curious Accident Neck Wedged in Tree

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 13

The finding of the body of an aged man, Michael O'Keefe, on a vacant allotment in Liverpool on Thursday reveled that it was obviously a very…

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Youth Drowned Flooded Creek at Goulburn

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 1

Kenneth White, aged 10 years, was drowned in a creek, at the southern end of Goulburn on Wednesday when it rose rapidly following a…

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Fatally Injured Struck by Falling Chimney Cessnock

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 1

Percival Saunders, aged 46 years, contractor, was killed instantly yesterday when a chimney fell unexpectedly while a house at Kurri was…

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Man Fatally Injured Struck by Falling Chimney CESSNOCK

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 1

Percival Sounders, aged 46 years, contractor, was killed Instantly when a chimney fell unexpectedly while a house at Kurri was being demolished…

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Car Over Embankment Four Persons Injured Two Seriously Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 2

Four persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a car ran backwards over an embankment and was wrecked at National Park to-day. Four…

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