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Accidents, 1937

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N.Q. Airways 'Plane Crashes Into Sea Girl Passenger Killed Others Injured Courageous Rescue BRISBANE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 4

O[?] a night [?] Cooktown to Cairns, a Puss Moth 'plane, operated by North Queensland Airways, and piloted by Patrick Moore, of Townsville, crashed…

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Child Injured Charge Against Father

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

A motor, driven by Terence Thomas Dunn, an employee of the Burrowa Municipal Council, struck the iron railway fence at Harden railway…

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Broken Hill Mine Fatality Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

Falling more than 50 feet down a schute at the South Mine this morning, Welter Lawson, aged 44 years, was killed instantly. Lawson was…

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Forrester Fatally Injured Glen Innes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 3

Arthur Alexander Henderson, aged 41 years, an employee of the Forestry Department, was killed at Glen Elgin to-day when a tree struck him on the…

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Blown Out to Sea Boy Drowned AUCKLAND

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

Two brothers named McRae, aged 8 and 13, were blown out to sea, at Napier (N.Z.). on a surfing raft, which capsized. The younger boy was…

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Commander and Crew Drowned Rescue Attempt BERLIN

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

While trying to rescue the crews of two distressed ships in the raging snowstorm in the Baltic Sea, the German naval experimental ship…

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Girls Drowned in River at Boorowa Two Lives Lost

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 8

A shocking double fatality occurred at Boorowa on Saturday. night when Dorothy Hartley (12) and Patricia Hartley (8)…

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Child Injured Charge Against Father HARDEN

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

A motor, driven by Terence Thomas Dunn, an employee of the Burrowa Municipal Council, struck the iron railway fence at Harden railway…

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Ex-king in Car Collision Badly Shaken But Continues Journey

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

The Duke of Windsor was badly shaken in a car collision yesterday. While driving on an ice covered road near Vienna, his car collided…

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Duke of Windsor Shaken in a Motor Collision VIENNA

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

The Duke of Windsor's car collided with another on an icy road between Enzesfeld Castle and Vienna to-day. Although slightly shaken, the Duke…

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100 Passengers Drowned Crowded Junk Strikes Submerged Rock CANTON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 1

Panic-stricken passengers Jumped madly to their death in swirling' waters to-day when a crowded junk struck a submergeg roc, in dense fog while negotiating…

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Coot. Council to Pay £1000 COMPENSATION To Man Injured When Air Cylinder Burst

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 2

The aftermath of the explosion of the Cootamundra Council’s compressed air cylinder in the street one day last year is a settlement the council…

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Thirteen Injured When Lorry Capsizes Near Young Party Of Cricketers Meet With Disaster. Ten in Hospital; Several Badly Hurt

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 8

Thirteen persons were injured—several of them seriously— and 10 of the injured are in hospital at Young following the…

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Father Charged After Motor Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

A motor driven by Terence Thomas Dunn, an employee of the Burrowa Municipal Council, struck the iron railway fence at…

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Boorowa Tragedy Verdict of Accidental Drowning

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 5

The district coroner (Mr. O. W. burns) held on inquiry into the deaths of Dorothy Harpley (10) and Patrida Harpley (8), who were…

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Swimmer Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

Eric Johnson broke one of his legs on Thursday of last week, when he jumped off the viaduct at Narandera to escape being run down by a train…

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Surfing Fatality Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 4

Two brothers named M'Crea, aged 8 and 12 years, were blown out to sea at Napier on a surfing raft which capsized. The younger boy was…

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Duke of Windsor in Motor Car Collision Vienna

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 1

The Duke of Windsor's car collided with another on the icy road between Enzesfeld Castle and Vienna to-day. Although shaken,…

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Rescue Ship Sinks Commander and Crew Drowned Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 4

In trying to rescue the crews of two ships in a raging snowstorm in the Baltic Sea, the German naval experimental ship Welle sank. The…

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Fatality at Yerong Creek Farmer Found Near Upturned Sulky WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 1

One of Henty's best known residents, Mr. Alfred Benjamin Schultz, aged 45, was found dead under his upturned sulky, at 10 o'clock…

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