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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Dacca Casualties 103 Killed, 350 Injured Dacca, India, Friday, (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 1

Two persons are dead and 38 were admitted to hospital as a result of add burns during yesterday’s communal disturbance…

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Holiday Road Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 October 1946 · page 1

The Eight Hour holiday week-end road accident toll—eight killed and more than 30 injured—is described by the N.R.M.A. and R.A.C.A. as…

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Unusual Accident Girl Killed at Mittagong

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 2

A pupil at Frensham Girls' School, Mittagong, was killed on Monday night when a stone pillar weighing a ton fell on her. The girl was Jill…

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The Motor World News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Holiday Road Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 1

The Eight-hour holiday week-end accident toll—eight killed and more than 30 injured—is described by the N.R.M.A. and R.A.C.A. as "appalling"…

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Bomb Explosions in Jerusalem British Soldiers Injured JERUSALEM, Friday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 1

Eight British soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, in a series of explosions in Jerusalem yesterday…

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Serious Accident on Major's Creek Captain's [?]

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1946 · page 1

On Sunday morning, a motor lorry owned by K. wright, carrier, of Captain's Flat, and driven by H. Christian. while returning to the Flat from…

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Miner Crushed to Death Captain's Plat Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 4

Buried under a fall of rock at the Lake George Mines, Captain's Flat, at 9.45 on Friday morning, T. Buley, believed to be a resident of…

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Officers Dismissed After Joyride Fatality BERLIN, Tuesday(A.A.sP.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 1

Captain Colin Park, Son of Air Chief Marshal Park, and Lieut. John Armstrong, both of whom pleaded guilty, to charges of negligence,…

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Faial Road Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 3

James Arthur Lyell, 19, a well known Gunning resident, was killed when his utility capsized on the Goulburn-Guning Road on Friday…

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Scalding Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 November 1946 · page 1

The District Coroner, Mr. F. G. Ruffles, on Wednesday morning conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the recent…

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Tragic Accident Sister Muir Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 November 1946 · page 1

Deep regret was expressed locally when news was received that Sister Muir, of the Baby Health Centre, had been killed in a motor accident…

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Horse Injured Alleged Cruelty

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 November 1946 · page 2

At Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions this morning. Richard Frederick Edmonds was charged with cruelly ill-treating an animals to wit, a horse,…

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Telegraphic News Braidwood Men Involved in Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1946 · page 2

When a utility truck stated to be owned and driven by James Cullen, of Braidwood, got out of control and crashed into a telegraph pole at the…

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Tragic Accident. Sister Muir Killed

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 November 1946 · page 4

Deep regret was expressed locally when news was received that Sister Muir, of the Baby Health Centre, had been killed in a motor accident on the…

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Several Injured When Truck Overturns

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 November 1946 · page 1

When a truck containing eleven Bungendore residents was travelling to Tarago on Saturday night it struck a concrete construction near a culvert…

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Car Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 1

On last Monday morning a Ford coupe, driven by Mr. J, Martin and travelling from Narooma to Mongarlowe, got out of control just where the…

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Drowning Fatality Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 December 1946 · page 1

The Queanbeyan River was the scene of another drowning on Friday afternoon last when James Patrick Staunton lest his life. The…

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Sawmill Accident at Bateman's Bay

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 2

A man who was involved in a sawmill accident at "Bateman's Bay was admitted to Goulburn District Hospital on Monday. afternoon. He was…

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Well Fatality Coroner’s Finding

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 December 1946 · page 1

The District Coroner, Mr. F. G. Ruffles, held an inquest at Court House this morning into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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Well Fatality Coroner's Finding

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 December 1946 · page 2

The District Coroner. Mr. F. G. Raffles, held an inquest at the Queanbeyan Court House last week into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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