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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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

Man Injured Car Hits Telephone Post

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 1

An accident occurred on Sunday evening on the Uriarra Road, near its intersection with Ross Road, when a motor car apparently got out of…

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Motorists’ Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes Week-end Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 3

The first fine week-end of the season was ushered in by a crop of road accidents involving two deaths and hospital accommodation for twenty-two…

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The Motorists' Corner Week-end Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 November 1939 · page 1

The first fine week-end of the season ushered itself in with a crop of road accidents involving two deaths and hospital accommodation for 22…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Fatal Collision in Mid-air

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1939 · page 7

Six persons were killed when two 'planes collided In mid-air near the club-house at Bonnie Doon golt course, Arncliffe, yesterday. At the…

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Three for Trial Alleged Assault at Goulburn Queanbeyan Resident Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 November 1939 · page 3

Three defendants in an assault case concluded, at the Goulburn Police Court on Tuesday—James Theodore Cavanagh, 29, John Joseph Kennedy,…

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Man Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 2

Tragedy overtook the Watt family on the first day of their intended fortnight’s holiday at Lake Macquarie. Yesterday afternoon while out on the lake…

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Car Strikes Tree Seven People Injured Three From Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 1

Late on Sunday night a motor car which was travelling from Sydney to Queanbeyan left the Hume Highway about six miles south of Moss Vale, and…

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Fatal Truck Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 7

BRISBANE.—Lexie Lord (17) and Noel Arthur McDonald were killed when a utility truck overturned near Monto…

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Strange Wave of Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 December 1939 · page 4

In six days last week six persons were killed in four accidents in which motor cycles were involved. In addition a number of persons were injured,…

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Road Safety Strange Wave of Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1939 · page 4

In six days last week six persons were killed in four accidents in which motor cycles were involved. In addition a number of persons…

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Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Irwin in Car Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1939 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Irwin, of Braidwood, were on their way to take a month's holiday at…

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Laundress Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 4

Maisie Elizabeth Malone. 17, laundry sorter, suffered such agony when her hand was caught beneath the roller of an electric ironing machine at the…

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Local and General Collision Sequel

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 2

Unusual interest was centred in the proceedings at the local Police Court yesterday, the biggest attendance of the public for many years…

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Accident to Miner Crushed Between Skips

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 4

Caught between two skips while working 600 ft. underground at the Captain’s Flat mine at 6.45 yesterday morning; Alfred Trevithick, a miner,…

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The Bull Case Sequel to Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 3

The case at the local Small Debts Court on Thursday, in which W. H. L. Chapman claimed from George Barlof the sum of £8/1/3 by way…

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ACCIDENTAL Stanley Gillespie’s Death Coroner’s Verdict

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 2

Lieut Colonel J. T. H. Goodwin yesterday conducted an inquiry concerning the circumstances of the death of Stanley George Murray Gillespie, of…

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