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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Cramm and Henkel in Accident Car Strikes Motor Cycle Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 4

Cramm, Henkel, and the manager of the German tennis players (Dr. Kleinscroth) were involved in an accident yesterday on their way to…

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Holiday Accidents Leeton Residents Hurt On Way to Coolamon Sports Entrants's Skull Fractured Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 4

Four residents of Leeton suffered severe cuts and abrasions early on Saturday morning when a car in which they were travelling to the…

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Tumut Accidents Car Overturns Near Tumut

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 1

A motor car driven by Mr. Ray Ibbotson overturned in fron[?] of the Gilmore store, five miles from Tumut on Xmas Morning,, as the result…

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Man Seriously Burned Accident at Mount Adrah Camp

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 1

Suffering from severe burns to practically the whole of his body Patrick Lydon, an employee of the Mount Adrah Construction Works…

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Jessops Cutting Again Fence Saves Probable Serious Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 2

The strong wire fence erected around Jessop’s cutting, saved what could have been a very serious accident on Monday morning last; when…

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Boy Drowned Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 1

Another vcitim was added to the list of drownings over the holidays when Alfred James Clifford, aged 12 years, of Erskineville, got out of his depth…

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Two Campers Killed Road Collision in Victoria Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 1

Two campers were killed when their motor cycle and a motor truck collided in Point Nepean road, Rosebud, while they were returning to…

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Eleven Drowned Sixteen Missing Ship Capsizes on Japanese Lake Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 2

Eleven were drowned and 16 were missing, including many holiday-makers, when the Midori Maru capsized during a snowstorm on the…

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Gundagai Fatality Car Falls 15 Feet Into Ditch Mr. J. A. Fountain Killed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 1

A well-known resident of Gundagai, Mr. J. A. Fountain, a chemist, was killed in a motor accident on Sunday morning. (Boxing Day)…

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Terrific Explosion Three Boys Gravely Injured Ship's Rocket Ignited Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 1

When a boy lighted a ship's rocket in a disused building in Balmain to-day. it resulted in an explosion which gravely injured three boys. The…

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Holiday Accidents Car Overturns Near Adelong Wagga Wrestler's Feat Lifts Vehicle with His Head

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 1

Road accidents were numerous in this district during the Christmas holidays, and many, people sustained injuries. One…

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Accident

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 2

Mr. Jack Graham met with what may have been a serious accident on Wednesday morning, when the steering of the Ford truck which he was…

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Wagga Aerodrome Accident Leads to Action Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 2

The Minister for Defence (Mr. Thorby) announced to-day that the civil aviation authorities were taking action to ensure that livestock were…

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Darlington Point Drowning Fatality (To the Editor)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 2

Dear Sir, Kindly permit me to correct a statement in your report of the Darlington Point drowning fatality. In this report you stated that…

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Five People Injured Accident at Bilbul

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 4

Returning to Griffith from Yenda on Saturday morning, after attending a dance, five people were injured when their car struck a post near…

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Girl Cyclist Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1

Miss Dorrie Coyne (15), a telephone attendant at the Barellan exchange, was racing with another girl on a bicycle on Sunday, when her…

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Fatality at Goulburn Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1

John Thomas Woodlands, aged 48 years, an employee of the Education Department, was fatally injured when the wall of a wooden school building…

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Car and Lorry Collide Leeton Residents Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 3

Fruit inspector Vincent, accompanied by Mr. E. J. Wason and Mr. Ron. Brown, of Leeton, were driving in the former's Ford V8 car to Tal…

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Appalling Scenes When Car Strikes Tree New Year's Day Crash at Yanco Passengers Badly Injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1

EARLY on New Year's Day a sedan car driven by Nicholas Saba, of Pine Avenue, Leeton, collided with a tree in Main Avenue, Yanco, between the post office and the hotel, with terrific force. The car was wrecked and the four occupants received injuries which…

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Leeton Residents Hurt in Motor Accident

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

Four residents of Leeton suffered severe cuts and ambrasions early on Saturday morning when a car in which they were travelling to the…

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