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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Hiker Injured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Sheila Swain, 29, single, of Burwood, accidentally slipped on wet rocks during a hiking excursion in the…

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Two Accidents at Wagga Showground

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 4

At yesterday's rodeo at the Wagga Showground Mr. Mat Salmon, of Urana Road, Wagga, was thrown from a horse, resulting to a severe…

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Fatal Accident At Forbes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: Frederick Joseph Marquart, 44, died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday from injurie received at…

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Training Accident House Destroyed at Randwick

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tues : Mome, one of J. Barden's learn broke her bark and was destroyed, and apprentice A. Franklin was injured in a…

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Injured Woman Marries Assailant

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: When Boy Carney, 40, textile worker pleaded guilty at the Criminal Court to-day to having maliciously…

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Car Fatality Driver on Many Charges

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Victor Black, 28, laborer, driver of a car in which one person was killed and several injured in a collision…

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Accident on Farm Mr. Reghenzani injured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

Mr. Carlos Reghenzani, senr., met with a painful accident on Saturday while operating a grape crushing machine on his farm at Corbie Hill…

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Child Drowned IN 2½ Inches of Water

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Four-year-old Pamela Molly Sullivan, of Randwick, was drowned in two and a half inches of water this…

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Freak Accidents Two Men with Severed Arteries

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 April 1945 · page 2
Also in The Gundagai Independent

SYDNEY, Sunday: Freak accidents last night, resulted in the arteries of two men being cut. One of them, Cecil Love, a…

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Circus Tent Falls on Lions' Cage Many Accidents in Sydney Storm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A policeman who was knocked to the ground when a menageric tent at Wirth's Circus in Prince Alfred Park…

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Tram Passengers Overcome by Fumes After Collision

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Fumes from broken glass jars containing an acid overcame several people when a chemical laden truck and…

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Explosion in Diesel Scarifier Three Men Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE. Tues.: The driver of a diesel scarifier, his assistant and a passer-by were injured by an explosion in the engine of the…

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Motorist "Nearly Drowned" Accident at Wamoon Negligent Driving Charge Fails

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 6

AN accident on the main road at Wamoon on December 4th, 1944, when a motor truck, driven by Douglas O'Reilly,…

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Schoolboy Injured While at Play

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 5

John Deaton, a pupil at the Leeton Intermediate High School, fell while playing in the school grounds on Wednesday and injured his back. It…

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Chief Justice Injured Struck by Military Truck

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Chief Justice of Victoria (Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edmund Herring) was injured when struck by a military…

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Boy Badly Injured by U.s.a. Army Car

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 2

DAL Smith, aged 7, residing with his mother in Kurrajong Avenue was seriously injured when he was run down by a motor car in…

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Cootamundra Airman Killed in Aircraft Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 7

Mr. and Mrs. Wes. Faulks, of 10 Bourke street, Cootamundra, received the sad news on Wednesday morning of the death of their son, Flight/Sgt…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 2

When the horse he was riding became bogged in a dam late on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. William Phillips, of Uranquinty…

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Accidents at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 2

When he was knocked down by a motor car in Kurrajong avenue. Leeton, about 5.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Dal Smith, aged 7…

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