Lottery Winner Death In Suburban Train £5000 Ticket in Pocket. Sydney, Saturday. Former Colonies
Daily Examiner · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 6
Mr. Nestor Hawkins, 47, of St. George's road, Bexley, won first prize of £5000 in the State lottery on Friday, and a few hours later was found…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 2
Mr. Ernest Johnson, a married man residing at Yangan, near Warwick, has cause to remember the flood that submerged a bridge over a creek late on…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 5
Suffering from the delusion that he was being sought by police, Frederick Joseph MacMahon, 60, of Lugarno, flung himself under a train at Mortdale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traffic Control "Road Toll As Bad As Murder" South Grafton Council Last Night's Meeting
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 4
Inspector McNeill and Constable Anderton attended last night's meeting of South Grafton Municipal Council, for the purpose of explaining…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 3
When Sir Earle Page, Commonwealth Minister for Commerce, came bowling along the bitumen-surfaced roads into Brisbane last week (writes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vic. Farm Sensation Woman Dies in Motor Car Fire Husband Found Dead Before Inquest on Wife Sister Found Shot Dead. Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 5
The body of Richard White, 42. farmer of Guy's Forest, was found to-day as the inquest was being opened into the death of his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twelve Die Express and Goods Train Collision in France. Paris
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 5
An express tram from Paris to Toulouse crashed into a goods train at Cheatar Roux late last night. Twelve were killed and thirty injured. Three…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 2
Mrs. Edith Grieves, of Mosman, died in hospital last night from injuries received in a motor accident last Saturday…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 2
The body of a man, believed to be Philip Stapleton. 30, of Randwick, against whom it was alleged the Sydney police had issued a warrant for…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 4
As a result of the showers, which fell in Grafton yesterday, one of Mr. Quinn's Yamba buses, which was parked at the side of the Grafton…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 4
Those bridge enthusiasts who braved the elements on Wednesday night to be present at the party arranged by the C.W.A. Younger Set spent a very…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 4
At Wednesday's meeting of the Dorrigo Shire Council the engineer reported that the biidge near Small's, Upper Orara, gets damaged by floods…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 2
An amount of £108/10/, of which the Dumaresq Shire Council's contribution is £36/3/4, was provided by the engineer for maintenance and…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 3
At the monthly meeting of the Dumaresq Shire Council, the District Engineer, Coffs Harbour, advised that funds were exhausted for Point…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 4
Mr. Nestor Hawkins, 47, of St. George's Road, Bexley, won first prize of £5,000 in a recent State lottery, and a few hours later was found…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 2
A letter from Park Beach Reserve Trustees to the Dorrigo Shire Council at Wednesday's meeting requested that Council complete the…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 5
Mr. H. G. Bond, Shire Engineer, reported to the Council meeting on Wednesday that the widening of the bitumen in Camperdown-street, leading…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 2
Mr. Charles William Stewart, nephew of Mrs. Fred. White, Coffs Harbour, and brother-in-law of Mr. H. Gillies, who until recently had a…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 5
When a motor car he was driving along the Forest Reefs road got out of control and crashed through the fence of an overhead bridge. Arthur John…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 6
The new concrete bridge being erected at Jackass Creek, oh the Glen Innes road, 39 miles from Grafton, is to replace an existing wooden structure…
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