Review of Road Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safely Council of New South Wales)
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 26 August 1940 · page 2
Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I can announce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Risks That Cause Accidents. (Issued by the Safety Council of N.S.W.)
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1940 · page 6
I suppose there aren many motorists who have not had the experience of either bumping into the rear of another car or of being bumped on the rear of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidents Week-end Mishaps Both Waggons in Use Thrown from Sulky
The North Western Courier · Monday 16 September 1940 · page 1
On Friday afternoon last, Misses Peggy and Wendy Bell, of StonEy Creek, Narrabri, were thrown from their sulky when the horse shied at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Risks That Cause Accidents How To Avoid Trouble
The North Western Courier · Monday 16 September 1940 · page 3
There has been slight rise in recent months in the number of rear end collisions. The two principal causes arc driving too…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Street Collision
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1940 · page 1
While Ald. F. C. Deakins was returning from the polling booth on Saturday night, during heavy rain, his car collided at the Balo and Heber streets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Child Evacuees Drowned Liner Torpedoed in Mid-atlantic. London
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1940 · page 1
Eighty-three child evacuees, aged between five and fifteen, were drowned when the ship on which they were being conveyed from Britain to Canada…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest German Horror British Ship Torpedoed in Atlantic 83 Children Drowned LONDON
The North Western Courier · Monday 23 September 1940 · page 1
Eighty-three children evacu[?] aged between 5 and 15 were drowned when the ship on which they were being conveyed from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Axe Accidents
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 26 September 1940 · page 1
While sucker cutting on Mr. Roy Hamilton's properly, "Morilee," on Tuesday morning Mr. Peter Moore gashed his left leg above the knee. He…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Injured in Fall
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 1
William Rankin was lopping trees at Bogamildi station on Saturday afternoon when a limb knocked him from the ladder. He was conveyed to Moree…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Level Crossing Accidents
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 3
There wore 51 level classing accidents during the year ended June 30, 1940. In the previous your there were many more and in the present year the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local & General. Man Injured
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 7 October 1940 · page 1
Mr. Maurice Smith, the well-known Moree boxer, was admitted to Moree District Hospital last, night suffering from a severe cut on the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scrub Cutting Accident
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 21 October 1940 · page 1
Mr. Norman John Farrand, an employee, of Mr. W. Matchett, of Carling-ford, Garah, was admitted to the Moree District Hospital on Friday suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 28 October 1940 · page 1
Mr. James Cutmore (46) employed on Rosehill station sustained a nasty injury on Friday, when the axe he was using slipped and came in contact…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tamworth Air Accident
Manilla Express · Tuesday 29 October 1940 · page 2
An inquest was held at Tamworth on Saturday last of William Moore Aspinall (24) who lost his life when the plane he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scrur Cutting Accident
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 31 October 1940 · page 1
William Walte (22), in aboriginal, was admitted to the Moree District Hospital on Saturday suffering from a sever injury to one of his toes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bottling Machine Bursts Man Seriously Injured
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 4 November 1940 · page 1
When a bottling machine burst in the cellar of the Hotel Max on Thursday afternoon Mr. Hector Munro (50) received seven facial injuries which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Conditions—New Accidents
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 4 November 1940 · page 4
New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few' more causes of road accidents. Immediately the new conditions came…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Conditions—new Accidents Motorists Who Are a Menace
The North Western Courier · Monday 4 November 1940 · page 3
New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few more causes of road accidents, states the Road Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Looking Behind the Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 6
Behind each of the 28 fatal accidents already reported in this Steate for October there is probably a pitiful story of anguish and desolation. Some that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burning Accident. Woman Succumbs to Injuries
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 1
Mrs. Nellie Silk, a well-known resident of Morce, passed away in Moree District Hospital on Tuesday night from injuries received when her…
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