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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Express Wrecked Thirty Passengers Injured London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 3

At least 30 of the passengers were injured when the Penzance to London express crashed into part of a goods train near Swindon. It is…

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Shooting in Gardens Woman Critically Injured Man Commits Suicide Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 8

My. John Walsh, aged 19 years, was critically injured at the St. Kilda Gardens early this morning when she received a bullet wound in the stomach,…

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Motor Accident Junee Residents In Hospital in Serious Condition JUNEE

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 1

ON Tuesday night, at 7.45 o'clock, as Mr. Allah Beveridge was proceeding to his home at "Dollar Vale," his car came into collision with…

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Serious Motor Accident at Junee Well-Known Residents in the Junee Hospital

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 2

On Tuesday at Junee, at 7.45 o'clock, as Mr. Allan Beveridge was proceeding to his home at "Dollar Vale," his car came into…

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Three Drowned Boxing Day Fatality Coroner Praises Two Brothers Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 3

Returning a finding of accidental death at the inquest on the three victims of a drowning tragedy at Helensburgh on Boxing Day, the coroner…

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Head-on Collision

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 2

Two motor cars collided, head- on, about four miles from Junee on Tuesday night, on the Gundagairoad, and as a result three persons…

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Rail Smash 3 Carriages Derailed Collision with Trucks 2 DEAD; 27 Injured London

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 1

FURTHER details are now available concerning the serious railway accident involving the loss of two lives which occurred early on…

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Tumut Truck in Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5

An accident that might cosily have had move serious consequences betel a Tumut party when returning from the city last week. Mr. McMullen was at…

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Railway Smash Three Carriages Derailed Collision With Runaway Trucks Two Dead; 27 Injured London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

Further details are now available concerning the serious railway accident involving the loss of two lives which occurred early…

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Schooling Accident Horse and Rider Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 7

Spearflint came down while schooling over the hurdles this morning, and jockey. W. Cutler was taken to hospital with a fractured collarbone…

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3 Drowned Boxing Day Coroner Praises Two Brothers Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 1

RETURNING a finding of accidental death at the inquest on the three victims of a drowning tragedy at Helensburgh on Boxing Day, the…

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T. Dynon Injured at Warrnambool Races Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 7

When Attente fell at the last hurdle in the Lady Bay Hurdle Race at the Warnambool races yesterday, T. Dynon received slight concussion and…

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Bull Charges Man Drover Seriously Injured Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 1

FOLLOWING on the exploits of the ball which ran amok at North Wagga last Sunday, a second beast, a large crumpled horned…

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Serious Burning Accident Griffith Residents' Spoilt Holiday

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 2

While Mr. and Mrs. R. Spray and Mr. Green, ol Griffith, were motoring from Griffith to Narandera on Monday morning, enroute to Sydney, they…

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Junee Motor Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

Latest reports concerning the victims of the motor car accident on the Gundagai road near Junee last Tuesday night are that Mr. J. Treweek,…

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Fatal Car Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 1

Miss Dorris Leslie Guest, an ex-resident of Leeton, who went to school here, died as a result of a motor accident near Canberra on…

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Hand Shot Away Gun Accident in Griffith Orchard

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5

Mr. Owen Lasscock, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Lasscock, of Hanwood, met with a serious accident on his father's orchard on Monday…

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Head-on Collision

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 January 1936 · page 2

Two motor cars collided head on, about four miles from Junee on Tuesday night, and three persons were admitted to Hospital. Both cars…

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Express Derailed 2 DEAD; 27 INJURED

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 January 1936 · page 3

Two persons have died from injuries received in the Penzance Express smash on Wednesday, Of the 27 others injured, seven are in serious…

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Two Men Injured Car and Motor Cycle Collide Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1936 · page 6

A motor cyclist, Keith Hamilton, aged 23 years, and a passenger in his sidecar, Robert Hamilton, aged 51 years, both had their left legs broken…

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