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New England · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

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Walcha Fatality Motor Lorry Accident

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 8

Maxwell Hutchinson was killed and his mother. Mrs. Frederick Hutchinson, his sister Margery (11) and his brother Fred (15) were seriously…

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I.R.A. Bombings; Five Injured LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 1

Irish Republican Army bomb explosions occurred to-day at Euston Railway Station, London, at Birmingham Post…

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"Sense of Chivalry" To Shield Lady Friend, Says Solicitor False Particulars of Accident Supplied

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 7

"It was partly through a sense of chivalry that defendant did not disclose the accident," said Mr. G. M. Edwards, who appeared for…

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Crash Landing Air Liner's Engine Afire No One Injured Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 5

Thirteen passengers and crew had a narrow escape from death this morning when an airliner flying from Melbourne to…

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Horse Destroyed Injured While Being Untrucked

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 3

Only one incident attended the untrucking of about 600 military remounts at Uralla railway station yesterday morning…

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Race Smash Lappin Injured SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 1

W. Lappin, rider of the Armidale Cup winner. Cigarette, was gravely injured in a fall at Randwick to-day…

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Truck Crash Q.M.S. Killed Companion Seriously Injured SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 1

Quartermaster-Sergeant George Ayre Arthur, of the 21st. Light Horse, was killed when a motor truck crashed into a street pole…

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Walcha Fatality

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 6

Maxwell Hutchison was killed and his mother, his sister Margery (11), and his brother Fred (15) were seriously injured when their car got out…

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Mother and Son Injured in Car Accident Admitted to Hospital

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 4

A woman and her son were admitted to the Armidale and New England District Hospital following a collision between two cars…

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Man Drowned Bondi Beach Name Unknown SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 1

The body of an unknown man, clad only in trunks and with gashes on his head and legs, was washed up on rocks at the northern end of Bondi Beach…

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Five Killed Italian Railway Accident ROME

The Inverell Times · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 1

Five were killed and 24 injured in a railway accident which occurred at Piza…

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Boy Drowned in Dam Pittsworth (Q)

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 1

Elwyn William Buckley (17), son of the head teacher of the Yaranlea State School, was drowned while bathing with four youths in the dam…

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Tree-Lopping Accident

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 4

While lopping trees for stock fodder recently. Mr. Reg. Smith, of "Booroola." Warialda, had the misfortune to inflict a nasty wound to his right foot…

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Merle Oberon Obtains Damages Action Against Chauffeur Result Of Road Accident LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 1

A court awarded Merle Oberon, the actress, £5000 damages together with £693 costs, against her chauffeur for injuries received…

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

Guyra Argus · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

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

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Hundreds Killed in Road Accidents

The Uralla Times · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.—Road deaths in Britain last months totalled 619. During compulsory black-outs no less than 451 of the total were killed…

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Surf Fatality Military Officer Dies SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 4

Cecil Phillip Webb, 43, was rescued from the surf near Newcastle yesterday afternoon, but died in the respirator at the local hospital late last night…

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ARMIDALE 51 Years Ago. (Reprinted from the "Erpress" of February 12 and 15). Reported Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 10

We hear that while some lads were out opossum shooting at Uralla on Wednesday, one of the number was shot in mistake for a kangaroo by…

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Child Injured Fell Fifty Feet SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 1

Gertrude Lewisson, aged eight, of Bondi, was critically injured when she fell about 50 feet to the roadway from a block of flats yesterday…

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Car Collision Refusal to Give Name

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 4

An unusual case was heard at the Police Court yesterday, when Harvey Guan was charged with not giving his name and address…

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