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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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

Accident Near Moruya

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 November 1929 · page 1

Suffering excruciating pain from a broken leg, the splintered bone of which protruded from the flesh, Thomas Coombes (30), of Ryde, climbed…

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Motor Cycle Fatality Coroner’s Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 November 1929 · page 1

This morning the Deputy Coroner, Mr. F. P. Woodward, held an inquiry into the death of Cecil Silverlee Rankin, who met his death last…

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Fatal Accident Grazier's Neck Broken

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1929 · page 7

On Thursday evening last Mr. John Hall, grazier, of Durran Durra, met his death in a frightfully sudden manner. The particulars of the sad…

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Terrible 'Plane Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1929 · page 7

Two thousand spectators of the motor reliability contests at Sevenmile Beach, Gerringong, on Saturday afternoon witnessed a double tragedy,…

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Young Man Crushed Accident at [?]

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 November 1929 · page 1

A young man, named Cecil Byrne, who resides in Queanbeyan was very badly crushed yesterday afternoon while working at the crushing [?]…

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Lorry Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 4

A motor lorry, which is engaged on the Goulburn-Wlndellama-Oallen Ford mail service, was travelling into Goulburn, when something went…

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Queanbeyan Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 4

Particulars regarding the accident to Mr. Cecil Byrne, son of Mr. W. E. A. Byrne, of Braidwood, which was briefly reported in our last issue, go…

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“Ought to Jump Over the Gap” Open Verdict on Drowned Man

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 November 1929 · page 1

An open verdict was returned at the inquest concerning the death of George Illingsworth aged 31. whose body was recovered from Rozelle Bay last week…

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Telegraphic News {Australian Press Association Message). Midnight Explosion at Kandos Cement Works No One Injured Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 November 1929 · page 1

There was a severe explosion at the Kandos Cement Works shortly after midnight which shook buildings in the town half a mile distant. Floors and…

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Sensational Accident Miraculous Escape of Five People

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 December 1929 · page 7

A motoring party had a most miraculous escape from death on the Aralueh road, about a mile from town, on Sunday morning last. In the car…

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Painful Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 December 1929 · page 1

Yesterday morning the three-year-old son of Mr. and George Lazarus, of Mowatt Street, was palying in the yard and had a wooden skewer…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon last Mr. Lewis Gibson, of Braidwood, who was employed at the saw-bench at Mr. G. Gumm's sawmil lat Harold's Cross,…

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