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Accidents, 1936

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Long List Of Cricket Casualties Injured Hands and Torn Muscles

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 6

FIRST class cricket in Australia this season has been marked by a remarkable series of casualties. At Sydney Cricket Ground…

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Sheffield Shield Cricket. Queensland's Hard Task. Mark's Double Century. Two Players Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 19

To recover from a first innings deficit of 22 runs, Queensland has now to make 398 against New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a task rather…

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Springwood Car Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 5

On Monday, at about 10.40 a.m. a car, owned by Mrs Reid, who had been holidaying at Lawson, was being driven by her husband towards Sydney, when,…

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Road Accidents. Reduction in Britain. Transport Minister's Warning. LONDON, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 16

Since the motor car was invented the number of road deaths in Britain had mounted, until last year, when there was a reduction of 822, compared with 1934. There were 12,500…

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Horse Bolted Fatal Accident BRISBANE

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 7

A fatal accident occurred at Petrie Bight, city, to-day, Michael Coghlan. Dwan, an elderly man, of the Valley, was driving a horse and springcart…

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Accidental Death

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday, when he inquired into the death of Charles Isles, 50,…

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Yesterday's Accidents Unknown Man Seriously Injured

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 12

EXTENSIVE lacerations to the fact, head, neck and left shoulder were sustained by Claude Orgin, 33, ol Gale-road, Maroubra, yesterday…

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Fewer Drowning Tragedies Better Swimmers; More Lifesavers

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 3

The number of surf and Stillwater tragedies has decreased tremendously during the past 10 years, and is still dropping, according to the Royal Life…

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Fatally Injured Brisbane Man Thrown From Cart Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 3

Thrown from a springcart when the horse bolted in Queen-street today, Michael Coghlan Dwine, 72, of Brunswick-street, Valley, was fatally…

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His Clutch of Death Drowned by Own Grip Man Who Held To Snag MELBOURNE

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 12

WHILE Thomas James Holmes, the former licensee of the Sablonier Hotel, Melbourne, was fishing from a flat-bottomed…

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Not Always the Motorist Cause of Accidents on Road

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 2

Motorists should be required to have brakes of their cars tested, at times convenient to themselves and without the imposition of irksome…

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Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

Sir Samuel Hoare was spending a holiday in the Engadine when he met with a slight accident while skating. When summoned to London he flew…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

Samuel Sprospon, 30, of Pittwater-road, Harbord, was riding a motor cycle in Bridgeroad, Pyrmont, yesterday afternoon, when he collided with a motor car at the corner of…

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Wasp Causes Accident. Eight Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

A wasp which flew into the driver's cabin of a motor truck at Narr Narr Goon this afternoon was the cause of an accident in which three persons were injured seriously and five…

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Casualties. Sleep Walker Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

Jack Hennessey, 14, of Lithgow, who was on a visit to Sydney, walked in his sleep yesterday morning, and fell over the balcony of the house in which he was staying in…

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Collision on Bridge Approach. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

Shortly before 11 o'clock last night two motor cars were seilously damaged in a [?] liston on the Grafton approach to the Clarence River bridge. W. Russell, of Brushgrove, why…

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Eight Persons Injured. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

Eight people were injured in a motor accident four miles from Albury on the Jinderaload on Saturday evening. The car, which was driven by E. G…

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Four Injured Jumped From Car

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 9

Four people were injured to-day, when a ear, swerving to avoid another car, skidded on some loose gravel on the Great Western-road,…

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Surf Tragedies. Youth and Boy Drowned. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

Kevin Patrick Canavan, 17, of Freestone, near Warwick, who was on his first visit to the seaside, and who was unable to swim, disappeared while surfing, about 40 yards from…

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Disappeared in Surf Youth Is Feared Drowned Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

KEVIN Patrick Canavan, 18, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Canavan; of Freestone, in the Warwick district, disappeared while…

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