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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Talkie Attractions at the Star Theatre “Little Accident”

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 August 1931 · page 2

When right on the eve of his wedding, a young man learns that he has just become a father......it isn’t hard to imagine what hilarious consequences…

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Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 2

A regrettable and painful accident happened on Wednesday afternoon to Keith Southwell, a boy of 11 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Southwell, “East…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 3 p.m. Railway Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 2

Charles Holmes, 52, was killed by a train between Pymble and Turramurra last night. He is supposed to have lost his balance and fallen on…

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Earthquake’s Havoc Pligh[?] of Injured CALCUTTA

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 1

In Baluchistan an earthquake wrought appalling havoc and completely changed the face of the countryside of a vast area. Whole hillsides…

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Echo of Bateman's Bay Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 2

"I am a monk, pledged and vowed to a life of poverty. I have no money, nor ever shall." Behind these words, "contained in…

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Conditions, Not Speed, Cause Road Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 3

The world is gradually learning that automobile read speed is not the primary cause of road accidents. Great Britain has found that since motor car…

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Gang Assault A.l.p. Secretary Injured

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 3

Four Communists way laid the organising secretary of the Australian Labor party (Mr. J. B. Martin) in the Trades Hall on Tuesday morning, and…

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Shooting Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 October 1931 · page 2

William Lilley (52), an attendant at the Orange mental hospital, was found unconscious in the bush with a bullet wound in his head. He died…

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Steamer Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 October 1931 · page 2

The ferry steamer Lady Scott dashed into the wharf at Blue Nose Point this morning, tearing away part of the wharf. Water poured into her…

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Harbor Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 7

In boisterous weather on the Harbor to-day the ferry boats Dee Why and Coralia collided off Kirribilli. Comparatively little damage was…

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Minc Disaster 0 KILLED, 27 Injured Berlin

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 October 1931 · page 1

It is now learned that nine were killed and 27 seriously injured by a fire damp in Mount Cenis colliery. Eighty miners who were entombed,…

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Crash at Crossing Rail Truck and Motor Car Four Killed, Eight Injured MELBOURNE

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 1

At Traralgon railway crossing, Victoria, early this morning, a 25-ton railway truck crashed into a double-seater motor car, in which a number of people…

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Remarkable Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 2

A remarkable accident occurred near Junee yesterday. An 11-months-old daughter of Mr. A. Parkes was playing on the roadside, when a…

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Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1931 · page 7

While Geoffrey Weaver was mustering sheep on horseback at Woolbrook, near Tamworth, the animal he was riding crashed Into a tree…

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Terrible Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1931 · page 7

Three persons were killed, viz., Miss Mary McNamara, of Drummoyne; Ian Tully, of Orange; and Charles Murray Gibbes, the…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 November 1931 · page 4

A batch of Q.M.C.C. lads decided to make the journey to Goulburn, to witness the dirt track races there. Many struck trouble…

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Serious Motor Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 November 1931 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon last, at about half-past 4 o'clock, a lorry be longing to Turner and Son, of Goulburn, came to grief at the culvert on…

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Horse Trainer Dies After Being Injured in Motor Accident Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 November 1931 · page 1

The Sydney trainer, Mr. E. H. Ball, died in Melbourne yesterday from injuries received when a motor car overturned in which he was travelling to…

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Bathing Fatality Girl Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 November 1931 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon, a sad bathing fatality occurred in the Molonglo river, below the Queanbeyan railway goodsshed when Mavis Josephine Moore,…

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Bank Hold-up Gangsters Foiled One Killed, One Wounded Re[?]iste Critically Injured St. Louis (U.s.a)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 November 1931 · page 1

One of the most heroic, but tragic frustrations of a bank hold-up occured here, when Gregory Dowling, 29-year-old vice-president of the…

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