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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Truck Smash Five Injured on Coonamble Road

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 November 1945 · page 1

A serious collision between two motor trucks occurred yesterday at about 8.2o p.m. on the Coonamble Road, near the Brocklehurst School…

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Road Accidents The Highway Code

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 December 1945 · page 4

Now that cars are being driven more freely again, and the number of motor vehicles on the roads are getting back to pre-war volume, the authorities…

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Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 December 1945 · page 6

The Dubbo District Ambulance was called to attend Mrs. G. Addison of Talbragar Street on Saturday night. Mrs. Addison suffered a severe…

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Police Court Sequel to Collision. Charge Dismissed

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 December 1945 · page 8

In the Wellington Police Court on Tuesday morning, before Police Magistrate, Mr. W. K. Earls, a charge against an…

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Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 6 December 1945 · page 1

Gloria Isbester (12), of 24 Gipps Street, Dubbo, was injured by a fall from a bicycle in Erskine Street, on Tuesday afternoon…

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Child Drowned

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 December 1945 · page 3

Lorraine, eight years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs A. G. Allen of Warren, was drowned in a lagoon on the Quambone road, about a mile from her home,…

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Road Accidents Nearly Four Hundred Deaths SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 December 1945 · page 1

Up to last night 29 persons had been killed in road accidents during December, and the total for the year was 374,…

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Latest Telegrams Accidents and Death Roll Reaches 50 in Worst Holiday Period End of Lighting & Gas Restrictions Soon. Road Accidents. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 1

In three days still to go to [?] holiday periods, accidents and death roll has reached the fifty mark, representing one…

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Small Farms for Injured Men Minister to Inspect Dubbo Camp

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 2

Subdivision of Dubbo Military Camp into small farms, for the purpose of setting partially incapacitated service-men was a matter to be considered by…

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