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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

1,390 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 70

Car Over Cliffs Injured Men Spend Night in Open Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 3

Patrick O'Mara, storeman, and J. Pollard, linesman, both of Trafalgar, were found early this morning lying unconscious beside their motor car at…

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Detective Injured Charge of Attempt to Kill Prisoner's Protest Against Being Handcuffed BRISBANE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 1

James Savage was remanded until February 4 at the Townsville Court to-day on a charge of having unlawfully attempted to kill Detective E. J. Quinn…

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Items of News Baby Injured in Fall

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 6

Noel Turner, an infant aged three years, who lives with his parents in Lower Fitzmaurice-street, sustained a fractured left forearm when he fell…

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Crowded Lorry Crashes Nine Men Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 1

Failing to take a bend in the road when the steering gear jammed, a lorry conveying 27 relief workers to a construction job at Manly crashed…

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Injured While Diving Wagga Girl Seriously Hurt at Culcairn

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 2

When she dived into a shallow portion of the Culcarn swimming pool, [?] Wednesday afternoon, Miss Jean Anderson, aged 16 years,…

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Motoring Road Accidents Increase in 1937 Over Previous Year

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 4

Statistics of road accidents for the nine months ended September 30 last, released by the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. C. N. Neale), show…

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Level Crossing Accident

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 8

Hurled into the air by an electric train at the Cave Hill (Vic.) level crossing on Wednesday, a motortruck was wrecked, and Walter…

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Father and Daughter Drowned Coolangatta Tragedy Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 4

Victor Conroy, aged 38 years, and his daughter Valerie, aged nine years, were drowned while swimming in the surf at Coolangatta. The girl, it…

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Motor Cyclists Injured by Hit-and-run Driver Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 1

Alter a collision between a motor car and motor cycle at Mascot last night, the driver of the par proceeded on his journey…

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Women Injured Goulburn

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 1

Three women were slightly injured and eight others had narrow escapes when cars belonging to visiting motorists were involved in accidents near…

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Tetanus Fatality Milbrulong Boy's Death Coroner's Comments

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

Lurking dangers from wounds by nails and wires and the need for seeking early medical advice if the wounds obtained suggested possible…

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Tetanus Fatality While Playing Cricket Milbrulong Boy's Death Coroner's Comments

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 5

Lurking dangers from wounds by nails and wires and the need for seeking early medical advice if the wounds obtained suggested possible…

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Car Accident Results in Murder Charge Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 1

At the Redfern Court today Frederick Wm. Gray, motor driver, was charged with having, on January 29, at Mascot, maliciously murdered…

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Accident Near Mudgee Lockhart Residents Involved

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

Mr. S. R. Jarvis, J.P., his son, Mr. S R. Jarvis, and Mr. A. Dorricott, have returned from a motor trip to the northern part of the State…

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Car Accidents Lockhart Parties' Narrow Escapes

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

A party of young people, consisting, of Messrs. Stanley, Norman, Edwin and Harold Watson, Misses J. and K. Watson, and Mr. L. McGrath,…

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Motor Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 2

On Sunday evening while Mr. Hugh M'Kinnon, of Cowabble, was taking several friends for a drive in his car an accident occurred that might…

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Sad Double Drowning Mother and Child Note Left Behind

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 3

Cootamundra was shocked this morning when the sad news spread that the bodies of Mrs. Edgar Wilson, aged…

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Motor Cyclists Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 2

James Myers, aged 21 years, of Hillard-street. East Malvern, and Clement Fraser, aged 24 years, of Robe-street, St. Kilda, were found beside a…

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Items of News Eye Seriously Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 2

Whilst Mr. R. Holman, of Junee, was placing palings on a fence a loose paling with a nail protruding came away from the fence and the nail entered…

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Lifeboat Capsizes 11 Persons Drowned Heroism Off English Coast London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 2

scenes of heroism were witnessed when a St. Ives lifeboat, returning with 23 members of the wrecked Panama steamer Alba, capsized in…

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