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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

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Motor Cycle Fatality At Level Crossing

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 3

The Deputy Coroner (Mr. S. R. Musgrave) held an inquest at the Court House, Wollongong, on Wednesday touching the death of Gerald…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 12
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our hist issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients were conveyed to…

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Motor Accidents

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

During the holiday week-end there were fortunately few road accidents in this district. Early on Saturday morning, on the…

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Rigger Injured

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 12

Charles Nicklassen (49) of Bligh st., Wollongong, was admitted to hospital yesterday afternoon with a probable fracture left thigh, broken…

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Collision on Bulli Hill

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 9

As the result of a collision between a car and lorry on Bulli Hill yesterday morning, Mrs. M. Hunter, 47 Bondi-road, Waverley, was admitted to Bulli…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 4

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients were conveyed to…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 12
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the persons were conveyed to…

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Scalding Fatality At Figtree

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 6

On last, Saturday morning, Shirley Eve Gillespie, aged 4 years and 2 months, was playing in the wash house at her parents' residence, Main-road,…

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Peculiar Drowning At Port Kembla Baths

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 11

On Wednesday, Harold Mervyn O'Dell, aged 22, was attending to his bicycle at the home of his stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hollamby,…

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Man Drowned at Port Kembla Baths

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 13

Harold Mervyn O'Dell (22) of Steeltown, was drowned at the Port Kembla baths on Wednesday afternoon…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 9
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the patients were conveyed to…

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Lives Blighted by Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 3

Through road accidents in this State since December 1 last six children have been orphaned and from once happy homes they are now living in…

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Road Fatality Death of Harold Samuel Loveday

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3

On Tuesday and Wednesday an inquest in regard to the death of tho above was held at the Court House, Wollongong…

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Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 11
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The Illawarra District Ambulance has attended the following accidents since our last issue. Unless otherwise stated, the persons were conveyed to…

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Late S. J. Loveday Accidental Death

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 14

The inqdest on the body of Harold Samuel Loveday, occupied part of Tuesday and the greater part o[?] Wednesday at the Court House…

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Motor Accident Near Russell Vale

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 1

When the car he was driving collided with a telephone post near Russell Vale on Friday night, Percy William Bennett, of 22 Helen Street,…

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