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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

108 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 6

Angry Bees Injured Mesa Attacked

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 February 1935 · page 4

When a motor lorry and a collided near Port Pirie (S.A.) on Saturday the occupants of 30 beehives which were being carried on the lorry…

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Local and General Motor Cycle Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1935 · page 2

A couple of Braidwood motor cyclists struck trouble in large chunks during a trip to the coast on Sunday. On the road from Moruya to the…

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Baby Drowned at Binalong

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 4

The body of Peter Weavers, aged two years, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Weavers, of Binalong, was found floating in a dam near his home on the…

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Runaway Bus at Kiama Four Persons Injured Passengers’ Leap for Safety SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 1

A motor’ bus got Gut of control near Kiama to-day, bolted backwards down Pike’s Kill, tore through a fence guarding a 20 feet drop over an embankment,…

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Fatal Tram Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 2

When two trams collided near Sydney University this morning, James Baxendale, aged 48, master of English at Fort-street High School,…

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Twelve Drowned Spanish Lifeboat Disaster LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 1

A Casablanca (Spain) telegram says that twelve persons were drowned when a lifeboat capsized on the way to the rescue of a Spanish smack which…

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Air Mails Late Again Accident at Landing LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 1

The Australian air mail, which left Croydon on February 23, is now 24 hours behind schedule owing to wreckage of the undercarriage of the…

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Canoeist Drowned a Botany Bay Tragedy

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 2

The water-logging of a canoe on Botany Bay on Sunday morning was attended with tragic consequences for Alan Sweet, 24, of Marrickville. He…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Fatal Motor Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 3

William Cottin, aged 75, was killed and Florence Bembrick, aged 65, critically injured when two cars collided bead on near Helensburgh…

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Man Shot Dead Wife Found Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 March 1935 · page 2

The body of Norman O’Neill, 48, dealer, and drover was found with three, bullet wounds in the head and neck in a small weatherboard house at…

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Boy and Girl Killed Collision at Level Crossing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 2

When the engine of a train collided with a motor car at Karoonda railway crossing (South Australia), Geoffrey Robin, aged 12 years, was killed…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 2

A Bega message says that Thomas J Donnelly, aged 22, of Sydney, died in hospital yesterday from a fractured skull as the result of a motor accident…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Another Car Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 2

When a car got out of control at Canterbury, Mavis Gonneson, aged 17, and Edward Whiteford, aged 18, were fatally injured, while the girl's…

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Weekly News Summary From Royal Automobile Club of Australia Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 4

The R.A.C.A. reminds drivers of motor vehicles that in case of an accident to them, or an accident having occurred in the proximity of their…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. America’s Accident Roll

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 3

There were at least 36,000 accidents on the roads of America, last year, and records show that one person was killed about every 15 minutes and one…

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Local and General Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 2

Mr. P. O'Heir, of Jembaicumbene, met with an accident on Friday last, which went very close to being attended with fatal results. It appears…

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Road Accident Toll

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 1

"That 86 persons were killed in road accidents in this State during last quarter is sn alarming condition of affairs when it is remembered that…

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Perambulator Run Down Children’s Escape Crawford Street Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 1

On Saturday night, a perambulator, containing two children, and being wheeled along the bitumen roadway in Crawford Street was…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m Man Shot After Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 2

James Burton Thorpe, aged 48, mer­cantile manager for the Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Company, Ltd., was found shot in his office last night. He…

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Two Men Killed Motor Cycle Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 4

While returning by car from Yass on Sunday afternoon and about 23 miles out, Mr. V. Saca[?] came upon two men lying by the roadside near a motor…

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