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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

61 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 4

Extraordinary Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 4

A remarkable escape is reported from Marble Buy (W.A.). Rex Moore (19), station hand, with others, was engaged in killing a bullock. The…

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Sensational Accident Collapse of Balcony

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1925 · page 6

A sensation was caused during the procession of the American fleet in Melbourne on Friday, when a large cantilever verandah in front of Hoyt's…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 August 1925 · page 3

On Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, Oswald Swan was driving a motor car from Queanbeyan to Bungendore with a load of passengers. While crossing…

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Runaway Motor Lorry Four Injured in Capsize

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 11 August 1925 · page 2

In a creek off the road on Bungendore Hill, nearly a mile and a half from Queanbeyan, lies a Ford motor lorry, mute evidence of a sensational…

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Runaway Motor Lorry Four Injured in Capsize

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 2

In a creek off the road on Bungendore Hill, nearly a mile and a half from Queanbeyan, lies a Ford motor lorry, mute evidence of a sensational…

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Motors in Collision

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon while returning to Queanbeyan along the Yass Road about 4.30 p.m. Mr. Joe O'Neill who was driving his own car noticed…

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Motor Lorries in Collision

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 3

A young man named Albert Swan appeared before Mr. Adams, P.M., at the local police court on Tuesday charged with having on 23rd July…

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Boy's Awful End Amazing Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 6

The inquest in London into the cause of the death of an 11-year-old boy revealed a remarkable story of how he was knocked down by a…

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Shooting Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 4

A young woman named Mrs. Barber, who was spending a holiday with her husband in The Rock district, near Wagga, met with a shocking…

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Local and General News ACCIDENT

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1925 · page 2

Mr. Clyde Heycox, a married man with two children, met with a serious accident while felling timber near Nelligen, about two miles from the…

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Terrible Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 October 1925 · page 7

Terrible injuries were suffered by Charles Wilson, foreman ganger, when he caught the full force of a premature explosion at a Council quarry at…

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Another Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 October 1925 · page 2

A motor car ran on to the footpath in Church-street, Parramatta, yesterday and dashed into a group of pedestrians. Four children were…

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Dreadful Burning Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 1

A terrible burning accident occured at Biarra, about four miles from Toogcolawah (Queensland), As a result a married woman and her baby…

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Shooting Accident

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 27 October 1925 · page 2

On Monday, 19th inst., a party of shooters was organised by Mr. E. Coffey of the Bredbo Hotel. The party consisted of Mr. Sid Ritchie,…

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Notes and News. Serious Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 October 1925 · page 2

Ballalaba was agog with excitement on Monday last, when the news was broadcasted that Miss Ada Callan, aged about 14 or 16 years,…

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Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1925 · page 1

A car driven by Mr. Frank Dawson left the road about four miles from Narooma, and capsized. Mr. Dawson and Cr. Sutherland were pinned…

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Local & General News Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1925 · page 7

Mrs. Jas. Crozlef, of Deccan-street, Goulburn, was on Wednesday night crossing Goldsmith-street at the Auburn-street intersection, when a…

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Shocking Fatality at Goulburn

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1925 · page 3

A shocking fatality occurred on the railway line near Goulburn in the early hours of Saturday morning. A man was knocked down by a train…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 2

Mr. Percy Nomchong, of Braidwood, met with a serious accident on Tuesday last. It appears he was mixing some sulphuric acid, caustic soda…

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Sad Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1925 · page 6

An unusual fatality occurred at Tamworth on Friday afternoon, when two bicycles collided at a busy corner. Lloyd Byrne (13) was killed,…

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