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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

123 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 7

Callous Motorist Leaves Injured Man on Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1936 · page 4

Another instance of a motorist driving on after being involved in a serious accident—the tenth of its kind in less than a fortnight—was reported to the…

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Shocking Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 2

MANILDRA.—When an emery wheel which he was working in his forge flow to pieces, Richard Ford (33), blacksmith, suffered terrible…

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Shot Gun Fatality Young Man the Victim

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 2

As he was stepping through a railing fence at his father’s property, “Pleasant Vale,” Book Book, 28 miles from Wagga, late on Sunday afternoon, Leslie…

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Telegraphic News Sydney. 2 p.m Extraordinary Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 7

WAGGA.—Patrick McCabe aged 58, was killed in peculiar circumstances yesterday. He was walking along the road near his home when…

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Motor Accident Statements

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 8

At a meeting of the, N.R.M.A. Council the Association's solicitors called attention to the practice of the police obtaining statements from…

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Pyjama-clad Aviator Found Beneath Window Seriously Injured LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 1

Mystery surrounds the discovery this morning of the young Australian aviator, Flight-Lieut. G. L. Menzies, who once flew the Tasman Sea solo, lying in…

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Man Killed in Milk Cart Crash Another Critically Injured SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 1

Leslie Smith, aged 22, was killed and Cecil Smith, aged 18, was critically inlivery cart crashed into a telegraph pole in Parramatta Road, Homebush…

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Fatal Motor Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 2

Francis Creeney, 15, was. killed by a motor car while walking near his home at Pendle Hill on Sunday. His skull was fractured. The body was taken to…

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Fatal Car Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 2

WARIALDA.—Roy Cohen, of Cio velly, Sydney, a commercial traveller was travelling from Moree in a small car with his ton, Noel, aged 11, when…

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Fatal Collision

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 September 1936 · page 2

NEWCASTLE.—Two miners at the John Darling colliery, Paul Askew and another man named Stacey, were killed when a motor cycle, on which…

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Easy Victories Litter Brothers Win Flying Princess Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1936 · page 2

Most of the winners at the mechanical hare meeting of the Queanbeyan and District Coursing Club at the Showground on…

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Our Racing Letter Roughhouse Tactics Lead to Accident In Canterbury Sprint Race. Medium of a Huge Starting Price Plunge Brought Down when Making a Winning Run. Pamelus and the Local Champions for the Spring

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 11 September 1936 · page 1

It is right on the cards that Billy Boy, winner of the Canterbury Guineas on Saturday, will ultimately prove the best of this season's…

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River Tragedy Two Boys Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 2

After dragging the Macintyre River at Inverell all night, the police on Wednesday morning recovered the fully clothed bodies of Clarence J. Garrett…

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Injured at Picnic Workman Awarded £375 Compensation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 3

John Gilbert Jackson was awarded £375 by the Workers’ Compensation Commission at Newcastle on Wednesday as compensation for the loss of an…

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Woman Drowned In Sydney Harbour

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 4

The body of Miss Constance Mary McRae, 27, well known in society circles in Melbourne, was found on Saturday morning washed up by the tide on the…

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Attacked by Bull Man Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 3

Walter Richards, an employee of Mr. Doubleday, dairy-farmer, at Lake Albert, was viciously attacked by a bull in the milking yard at Mr. Doubleday's…

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ACCIDENTAL Air Pilot’s Death LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 1

The Coroner who inquired into the death of the well-known air pilot, Captain T. Campbell Black, returned a verdict of accidental death…

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Heavy Road Toll 9833 Accidents in Year

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 2

Deaths in road accidents in New South Wales increased by 28.5 per .cent., and the number of accidents increased by 11.9 per cent., in the year ended…

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Solicitor Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1936 · page 1

Allen E. Minkin, 31, solicitor, of Innisfail, Queensland, was drowned on Sunday at Paronella Park, a holiday resort, near Innisfail…

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Hit-run Motorist Man Injured at Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1936 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Yeo, 72, a well-known resident, was struck by a hit-run motorist in the main street of Yass shortly after midnight on Sunday and was…

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