Three Drowned at Canberra
Two children and a man were drowned in the Murrumbidgee River near Canberra on Boxing Day. The discoloured waters of the swollen…
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Accidents, 1943
35 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Boy Saves Drowning Man
Diving into 40 feet of water frequented by sharks, Jack Hodgson, aged 15, of Manly, rescued a drowning man. He was Robert Laws, of…
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A very painful accident happened young Jack James last week. He and another boy about the same age, Percy Smith, where riding home…
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An eight-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Smith, aged 38, at her home in Redfern on Wednesday night. Her condition…
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While attending a group parade of the V.D.C. at Jerangle about 2 P.m. last Sunday, Harold Phillips was mounted on horseback with others…
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An old-time resident of this district, Mrs. P. A. Blundell, who then resided at Condor Creek, Uriarra, is an inmate of Tumut District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →178 Suffocated Accident Near Tube Shelter LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.)
It is estimated that 178 persons were suffocated, including about 60 children, and about 60 more required hospital treatment as a result of…
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When a party of young folk in a Utility get out from Goulburn on Wednesday night for the show ball at Braidwood several of them had no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Here and There Another Accident Caused by Straying Stock
Apparently travelling on me roads is becoming a hazardous job. Right on top of the recent' smash on Bombay road comes word of another…
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The opinion has often been expressed by this paper that when straying stock causes a fatality in the district then, and not before, will the Shire…
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Young Ken Mayberry, son of Mr. T. Mayberry, met with a terrible accident while ploughing on his father's property near Braidwood on…
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On Tuesday evening while Mr. Percy Wallace was returning to “Ingalara,” property of Mr. S. Kelly, Michelago, where he was…
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A departure from his usual daily routine led to the death of a well-known Queanbeyan poultry fancier, Joseph Benjamin Haywood Holland…
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Mr. Percy Wallace, of Ingalara Plain, well known throughout the Jindabyne and Monaro districts, met his death in a car accident recently. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Commander in Europe Killed in Aircraft Accident London, Wednesday (A.A.P.)
Lieutenant-General Frank Maxwell Andrews, commanding general of all U.S. forces in the European theatre was killed on Monday in an aircraft…
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In the first quarter of this year 94 persons were killed and 1,086 persons were injured in 1,667 road accidents in New South Wales…
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Misfortunes never come singly is an old saying which, we are quite sure, Mrs. Martin, sen of Braidwood, will agree with. Only recently she spent…
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Jack Oliver Sullinvan, 19, a soldier, was drowned on Tuesday night when he fell into a canal at Kogarah. He was accompanied by his…
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The sad news of the death of Flying-Officer John Brown was received in Braidwood with many sincere expressions of regret. Deceased was the…
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At the Braidwood Police Court, on before Mr, R. Donaldson, P.M., Charles Edward Rudd was charged with, on 10th March, at…
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