TOLL OF LIFE
WEEK-END DEATHS IA AUSTRALIA MANY FATAL ACCIDENTS BOY SUCCUMBS TO SNAKE BITlf Australian and N.Z. Cable. SYDNEY, April 20. The week-end death roll in the four cities was heavy. One of the motor car accidents accounted for six victims. In one case a cyclist crashed into a car and a piece of wreckage pressed against his throat and choked him. In Melbourne a boy was fatally bitten by a snake. The lighthouse keeper at Cliffy Island drank disinfectant in mistake for wine and succumbed. A circus hand was badly mauled by a bear. Three Perth residents were drowned when a yacht capsized and sank off Rottnest Island. Two others were saved. A boy of six accidentally shot his brother dead * with a shotgun.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8144, 21 April 1931, Page 2
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