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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

326 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 11 of 17

Accident with Broadaxe

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 August 1940 · page 4

Mr. Albert Lalor, a Macleay resident, met with a most painful accident on Friday last. He was using a broadaxe to square some sleepers,…

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Many Lives Lost in Accidents

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 6 August 1940 · page 3

Deaths in road accidents in this State have been increasing each week until at the end of July the position was nearly as serious when the…

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Chilian Steamer Sunk. Drowned 66; RESCUED 33. LONDON

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 August 1940 · page 2

A Valparaiso message states that the Chilian steamer Moraleda was sunk north of Faraway Island, in the Straits of Magnellan…

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Four Injured. Car Plunges Into River at Maclean

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 August 1940 · page 1

When a sedan car driven by Mr. R. O Donohue, of Brushgrove left the road close to the Maclean ice works on the Pacific Highway late Sunday…

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Two Airmen Killed Accident at Narromine School Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 August 1940 · page 4

Melbourne: The Air Board announced that a pilot instructor and trainee, undergoing instruction, were killed yesterday when a R.A.A.F. training plane…

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Tragic Plane Crash Four Federal Ministers and a General Killed Accident at Canberra SYDNEY,Tuesday

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 3

Canberra: Ten persons, including three Federal Ministers and two high military officers, were killed when an aeroplane crashed into the hills while…

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Injured While Playing at War. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 5

Leo Summers, 13, of Bondi, had his left thumb and the tops of three fingers of the left hand blown off while playing toy soldiers. He explained…

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Missed Exam Two Years in Succession. Through Motor Cycle Accidents

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 2

For the second year in succession a motor cycle accident prevented Maxwell Evans (18), of Armidale, attending annual examination in…

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Review of Road Accidents

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 4
Also in Macleay Argus

Traffic accidents are up again. The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I…

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Road Accidents

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 4

"Traffic accidents are up again !" The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now it…

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Many Lives Lost in Accidents

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 1

Deaths in road accidents in this State have been increasing each week until at the end of July the position was nearly as serious when the…

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Review of Road Accidents

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 6

Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I can announce with…

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Lower Creek Accident Car Over Cutting. Mr. Charles Bryant Killed

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 September 1940 · page 5

Mr. Cliff Gleeson, mail contractor, and Mr. Charles Bryant of Lower Creek, attended a function at Bellbrook on Wednesday night last, and left there…

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Man Seriously Injured

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 September 1940 · page 4

Mr. Cecil Moody, a surveyor employed by the Forestry Commission, had a miraculous escape from death on Saturday last when his car hurtled…

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Fatality at Wootton. Man Killed

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 September 1940 · page 5

On Wednesday a fatal accident occurred at Wootton. It is stated that Mr. Leslie Ernest Jackson, aged 41 years, a, relief worker, from Minmi…

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Review of Road Accidents

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1940 · page 8
Also in The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales

Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I…

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Savage Air Assault on London. 400 KILLED 1,300 INJURED All-Night Raid on Docks, Factories, Houses. Germans Enraged by R.A.F. Success. LONDON, Sept. 8

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 September 1940 · page 2

Hitler's air assault on Britain reached a new level of savagery last night when London…

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Savage Air Assault on London. 400 KILLED; 1300 Injured. Germans Enraged by R.A.F. Success London, September 8 (A. A. P.)

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 September 1940 · page 2

Hitler's air assault on Britain reached a new level of savagery last night when London had its worst raid of the war…

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