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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Ideal Weather for Bega Annual Races Record Crowd Sees Duke Almissa’s Cup. Over £61 Gate Money. The Double Goes to Bombala Horses Horse Killed In Hurdle Race and Jockey Seriously injured

The Bega District News · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

Officials: Committee, Messr. Jas Cochrance (president), E. I. Peil (vicepresident), A. J. RIXON (hon, treac) T. D’Arcy (judge), H. J. Howard…

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Snake In Sewer Shaft. Workman Injured

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 2

When workman hauled up a backet from the bottom of No. 12 sewer shaft at Willougbby, they were surprised to find it contained a laigo tiger snake…

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Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 1

On Tuesday afternoon, of last week, Mr. E. Peel, riding a motor-cycle, cut it too line, while rounding into Junction street at the Hotels corner, and collided…

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Peculiar Accident. Horse Destroyed. Man's Narrow Escape

The Nowra Leader · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 2

A remarkable accident which resulted in such serious injury to a horse that it had to be destroyed, occurred just outside the Wandandian hotel on Wednesday last. The…

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Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 3

Mr. M'Auley, jun., who plays cricket with Wandandian Club, was returning home from a competition match on Saturday night last when he met with an…

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Motor Cars Collide Woman Seriously Injured

The Bega District News · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 2

A motor car travelling towards Parramatta. yesterday suddenly swerved and overturned directly in the path of another car travelling…

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Tram Fatality

The Bega District News · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 2

Robert J. Furies was killed as a result of a steam tram overturning near Wallsend yesterday…

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Playtime Accidents A Touch of Zam-Buk Enables Little Sufferers to Quickly Forget Their Cuts and Bruises. Little mischievous spirits cannot

The Bega District News · Monday 2 February 1925 · page 1

Little mischievous spirits cannot resist playing where danger lies. It is natural and childlike. The wise and experienced mother, however,…

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Latest Telegrams. Surfing Fatality Man Amd Woman Drowned

The Bega District News · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 2

John. Wills, officer in charge of the fire station at Burwood, and Miss Alice Doyle, aged 26, a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, were…

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Syrian Drowned on the Tweed

The Bega District News · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 2

A colored man, believed to be an Assyrian named Sliba, attempted to cross a flooded creek near Murwillumbah in a sulky, when the horse,…

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Sensational Motor Fatality English Cricketer Has Miraculous Escape

The Bega District News · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 2

While a motor car containing E. Baker, a partner in a Melbourne sports depot, Douglas, a member of the English cricket team, and Dr…

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Train Accident

The Bega District News · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 2

While the trans-Australian train was some distance from Tarcoola the boiler tube blew out, completely extinguishing the fire in the engine…

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Motor Fatality

The Bega District News · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 2

Two men named McCarthy and Wilson were killed at Bunbury, W.A., when a motor ear crashed into a free…

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Father and Son Drowned While Fishing

The Bega District News · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 2

A boat from which Clarence Hubert, who was accompanied by his 5-year-old son, was fishing, capsized in Sumner Estuary, N.Z., and both…

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Sensational Train Bolt Four Injured

The Bega District News · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 2

A goods train consisting of two engines and 43 loaded trucks got out of control near Cowan, and dashing down the incline leading to…

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Serious Accident at Wandandian

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 7

On Monday afternoon, Mr. T. Ganderton, while engaged cutting timber at Wandandian, met with a serious accident, resulting in a fracture of…

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The Nowra Burglared Car. Accidently Discovered at Ashfield

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 8

The police got on the tracks of the motor car stolen a little over a week ago from Mr. A. W. Barnes, of Nowra. Four men, driving in a car, went…

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Serious Accident to Mr. T. Ganderton

The Nowra Leader · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

Mr. T. Ganderton, of Wandandian, met with a serious accident, on Monday, whilst engaged felling timber in the bush for Watt's sawmill. The tree struck him on…

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Motor Accidents Continue

The Bega District News · Monday 9 March 1925 · page 2

A collision occurred last night at Enfield between two motor ears. The passengers were hurled to the roadway and a girl named Betty Elliott…

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Latest Telegrams. Surf Fatality

The Bega District News · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 2

Ernest Hayes, 20, was drowned, and two other young men narrowly escaped a similar fate at Collaroi beach yesterday while surfing…

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