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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Ten Drowned Fishing Boat Founders London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 3

The wreckage of the Lowestoff fishing vessel, Shore Breeze, which left Plymouth last week and foundered in a gale off the Welsh coast at the…

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Qantas 'Plane Damaged Nobody Injured Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 1

A Qantas Moth aeroplane carrying two passengers and air mail was damaged when taking off at Wondoola, the regular landing place between…

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Seven Injured Cars Collide at Tumblong Child in Critical Condition

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 1

When two cars collided at Tumblong on Monday after noon, seven persons were injured, one, a child aged three years,…

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Motor Accident Car. Turns Over On Conroy's' Gap

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 4

Archdeacon Langley, of All Saints, Woollahra, and Mrs. Langley were the victims of a motor accident on Sunday last. They were returning…

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Struck with Hammer Carpenter Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 7

While working on the open-air picture show in Wade Avenue, Bert Beggs, a carpenter, was accidently struck over the eye with a hammer…

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Child Injured Pell Prom Box

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2

Jeannette Eckley, aged 14 mouths, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Eckley, of Wade Avenue North, fell off a box yesterday morning and…

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Drowned in River Old Man's Death at Darlington Point

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

On Friday the body of Patrick Cunninghams (better known as Patrick Shannon) was conveyed to the morgue at the Griffith District Hospital by…

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Missing Naval 'Plane Pilot Found DrOWNED LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2

The body of Flying Officer Phil Agard Butler, wearing full flying kit and lifebelt, was found to-day in a canvas raft, floating in the sea off…

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Cars Collide at Tumblong on Way to Tumut Seven Injured

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

When two cars collided at Tumblong about 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon seven persons were injured, one, a child aged three years,…

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Head-on Collision Four Injured at Kyeamba Taken to Wagga Hospital

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 4

Four people were seriously injured in a head-on collision between two cars at Kyeamba yesterday afternoon. The cars, one going, to Albury and the other…

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Sydney Boy Drowned Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 4

William Elshaw, aged 7 years, of St. Peters, was drowned in the Cook's River this afternoon. He was playing with his younger brother when…

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Injured Jockey Clears Out

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 12

When the Wagga mare, Verquette, stumbled and dislodged J. Coutts in the Mascot Welter Mile on Wednesday, J. Coutts was injured and…

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River Tragedy Boy Drowned at Beach Caught By Current Body Not Yet Recovered

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 4

The Murrumbidgee River at Wagga yesterday claimed its first victim for the season, when Martin Wasley, aged 9 years, got out of his depth…

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Boy Drowned at Wagga Bathing Beach Returned to Water After Swimming Lesson Dragging Operations Fruitless

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 4

The Murrumbidgee claimed anther victim yesterday morning when Martin Wasley, aged 9 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur…

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Smash at Kyeamba Cars Hit Head-on Four Injured and Taken to Hospital

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 January 1936 · page 13

Four people were seriously injured in a head on colision between two cars at Kyeamba yesterday afternoon The cars, one going to Albury, and…

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Head-on Collision Four Injured at Kyeamba. Taken to Wagga Hospital

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 4

Four people were seriously injured in a head-on collision between two cars at Kyeamba on Friday afternoon. Thecars, one going to Albury…

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Boy Drowned at Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee claimed a victim on Friday. Martin Wasley, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wasley, of Wagga, sank in the middle of the river, about…

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Car Overturns One Killed; Four Injured CANBERRA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 4

Harold Edwin Whatly, aged 31, was killed and four persons injured when a motor car overturned on the Prince's Highway about eight miles from…

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Boy Drowned At Wagga Bathing Beach. Returned to Water After Swimming Lessons

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 1

The Murrumbidgee claimed another victim on Friday morning, when Martin Wasley, aged 9 years, of 126 Fitzmaurice street,…

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Drowned Two Brothers in Car Washed off a Flooded Classing at Wallendbeen

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 3

William Henry Phlip, 62, of 14 Howard street, Canterbury, and his brother, aged 60, John Alexander Phlip, of Wagga, met with a tragic…

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