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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

108 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 6

Campaign to Reduce Motor Accidents Police Commissioner’s Warning

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 4

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay), in a speech at the Royal Automobile Club, Sydney, on Wednesday night, referred to the campaign to…

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Five Accidents in One

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 8

The following amusing letter, addressed to the claims division of an insurance company in Ottawa, Ontario, appeared in a recent issue of the…

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Telegraphic News Sydney. 2 p.m. Baby Swept Away and Drowned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 July 1935 · page 2

A baby, aged three months, was drowned near Nyarrin (Vic), when a car driven by its father skidded into a water channel and the baby…

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Tough Men ! Injured Footballers Want to Play N[?]rton Is In Side

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 July 1935 · page 1

These Southern footballers are tough. It takes more than broken bones, torn muscles, and knife slashes to keep them out of a Cup…

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Two Boys Drowned

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 7

MELBOURNE.—When an improvised raft on the imperial dam at Black Load, new Ballarat, overturned, Leonard Hargreaves, aged 16, and his…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 2

Young Jack Dempsey, son of Mr. I Con. Dempsey, of Krawarree, was the victim of a nasty motor bike mishap on Saturday, which resulted in…

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

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—John Kennedy, 56. married, and Miss Eva Polaski, aged about 36, were killed instantly near Apollo Bay, when a heavily-laden…

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Cars Collide Accident on Cooma Road Two Motorists Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 1

A collision between two motor-cars on Cooma road late on Friday afternoon resulted in two of the motorists receiving painful injuries. Mr. A. W…

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The Causes of Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 3

Figures issued by the Ministry of Transport in London analysing the 1500 fatal road accidents which occurred during the year, make…

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Lowest Death Rate From Motor Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 4

The City of Milwaukee (U.S.A), which at one time was famous for the product of its breweries, but is now notable for being the safest city in…

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More Than a Thousand Drowned Dam Bursts in Italy

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 2

Following torrential rains, a dam burst in Italy on Tuesday and more than 1000 people are believed to have been drowned at Ovada and…

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Painful Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 3

Mr. Jack Hatch met with a painful accident when a case weighing 50Ibs which he was lifting, slipped from his grasp and fell on his foot. A later…

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Accident to Motor Cyclist

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 2

A big pool of blood on the Goulburn road on Sunday morning marked the spot where Mr. Fred Byrnes, of Six-mile Flat, bad met with a…

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Italian Consul Accidentally Shot LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 1

Baron Falconi, the Italian Consul at Debra Markos, 125 miles north-west of Addis Abbas, who accidentally shot himself while on a hunting expedition,…

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Radio Band Leader Death After Accident SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 August 1935 · page 1

Cecil Jones Morrison, aged 35, dance band leader, died in hospital this morning. He was injured in a motor accident on July 4, at North Sydney, when…

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Mysterious Attack Girl Seriously Injured Melebourne

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 3

Miss Margaret Dillon, 24-years-old daughter of Mr. Dillon, M.L.A., was attacked by an intruder in a sleeping-out yerandah at the rear of her home at…

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Highway Accidents Cause and Prevention

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 August 1935 · page 4

When one begins to study the complicated subject of highway accidents, their causes and prevention, one soon discovers that there is one single…

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Latest Cable News Fatal Plane Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 2

LONDON.—Thousands of holiday-makers at Blackpool were horrified witnesses of a mid-air collision, resulting in the death of pilot Stewart…

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Road Accident Three Men to Hospital One Seriously Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 1

A party of three men who left Queanbeyan in a touring car last Saturday night were involved in a serious accident about 12 miles from…

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Uriarra Road Again Motor Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 1

On. Wednesday evening, about a o'clock, two motor vehicles came into collision on the Uriarra Road, near Tetley’s servicc station…

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