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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Toll of the Road Accident Show Increase Big Problem [?] FUTURE

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 30 March 1945 · page 3

Road [?] towns and [?] showed [?] previous year. [?] areas…

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Mr. A. Irvine Injured Five Stitches in Arm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 1

Losing his balance, Mr. A. Irvine, of 127 Bourke street, had a fall in the bedroom of his home on Thursday evening—the anniversary of his 83rd…

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Accidental Death Coroner's Verdict

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 2

The death of James Robinson (63), who fell from the back of a motor lorry in Wingewarra street on February 27, was accidental. The Deputy…

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Railway Fatality Man Ran Down by Train at Binnaway

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 3

Two fettlers working on the permanent way at Binna way on Thursday last were eye witnesses of a terrible…

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Collision Aftermath Damages Claim Verdict for Plaintiff

The Wellington Times · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 8

At the Wellington Police Court on Tuesday last, before Mr A. G. Hardwick, P.M. James M. Carter was successful in…

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Rail Tragedy Coroner’s Verdict -Accidental

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 2

A coroners’ inquest was held at the Binnaway Court Houes on Tuesday week, when Mr. G. McNaboe, Coroner, inquired into the death of Colin…

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Motor Fatality

The Western Herald · Friday 27 April 1945 · page 1

When a motor lorry carrying members of Jehovah's Witness Sect to a Convention at Katoomba got out of control and overturned…

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Chapter of Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1945 · page 1

Injured by falling timber while playing in a timber yard at Cobar on Anzac Day. James Hamilton Cutter 17), son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Cutler…

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Accident at Picnic

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 3 May 1945 · page 2

At the school picnic on Wednesday, a lad named Leonard Skinner, of Wrigley Street, fell off a table and recer[?]ed a nasty…

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Accidental Shooting Three Boys in Hospital. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 May 1945 · page 8

While searching behind a low mound at Holdsworthy rifle range yesterday for spent ammunition, three boys were…

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Accidents In Sydney Blackout

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1945 · page 1

During the premature dusk which enveloped a wide area of Sydney yesterday afternoon when a heavy thunderstorm broke over the city, Byron…

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Launch Founders Four Doctors One Medical Student Drowned Survivor Suffers Broken Leg. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 1

Five young men, four of them doctors and one a medical student, are believed to have been drowned when a 40-ft. launch, in which they were returning from Catherine Hill Bay to Sydney, foundered in huge seas off…

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Latest Telegrams Five Young Medical Men Believed Drowned in Launch Disaster, Off Broken Bay, Sydney. Drowning Fatality. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 1

Five young men, four of them doctors, and one a medical student, are believed to have been drowned, when a 40ft. launch, in…

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Car Overturns Bowlers Meet with Accident

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 1

Whilst proceeding from Coon amble to Gilgandra on Sunday last to participate in a match against the Gilgandra…

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Accidents Fractured Wrist

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 4

Douglas Muller, son of Mrs. M. Muller, of John Street, Coonabarabran, fractured his wrist and badly bruised his right arm, when cranking…

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Mad Rush in Stolen Car Twenty-nine Injured—One Killed

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An N.C.O. was killed and 29 soldiers, including two officers, were injured when a stolen car ploughed its way through them at high speed in a Sydney street last night…

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Burrendong Head-on Collision. Car and Truck

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 6

A head-on motor collision occurred on the main road, between the bridge and Mr. Wright's corner last Saturday…

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Accident at Sawmill

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 2

On Monday morning Mr. Bo[?] Woodward had a narrow escape from serious injury whilst working at Messrs. R. J. Nelson and…

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Painful Accident

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 4

Graham First, while engaged sinking a dam, met with a painful accident. A chain connected with the scoop broke and he was…

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Stuart Town Plane Crashes Pilot Slightly Injured

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 June 1945 · page 7

All the talk in town this week is about the plane which made a forced landing here last Thursday. It was noticed…

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