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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Sequel to Motor Collision District Man Convicted

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 1

On December 22nd last, two cars, met in collision at the intersection of Punch Street and the Hume Highway, Gundagai. The accident,…

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Flood in Transvaal 15 Drowned: Thousands Homeless

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

DURBAN (South Africa), Wednesday.—Fifteen have been drowned and thousands rendered homeless by a heavy flood in Transvaal, Roads and…

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Road Accidents Driver: How High Do You Fly

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 3

How high do you fly when driving? No, this is not a question from a comic strip; nor is dt a radio gram from the planet Mars. It is…

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Mail Train Derailed Accident Near Gosford Railway Line Damaged Gosford

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

The permanent way two miles north of Ourimbah was torn up for 75 yards when an engine, tender and four carriages of the North-west Mail were…

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Thirty-one Days Unconscious Man's Death After Car Accident Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 5

Jack Dyke, who has been unconscious in St. Vincent's Hospital for 38 days, after being injured in a car accident, died this morning…

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Two Charges Alleged Felonious Slaing Sequel to Road Accident Mores

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 2

Thomas Cross stood his trial at the Atom Court to-day on a charge of having feloniously slain Honor Humphries. The case related to a road…

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Trooper Fatally Injured Rode Horse Under Wire BUNGENDORE

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

A few minutes before he was to have left Bungendore to go into camp at Berry with the 7th Light-Horse Regiment, Trooper Robert Hartness, aged…

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Trooper Fatally Injured Rode Horse Under Wire Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

A few minutes before he was to have left Bungendore to go into camp at Berry with the 7th Light Horse Regiment, Trooper Robert Hartness, aged…

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French Warships Collide 11 KILLED; 14 Injured Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 1

Eleven were killed ana 14 injured in a collision between the cruiser Georges Leyugles and the destroyer Bison during manoeuvres of the French Fleet in…

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Fatal Accident School Boy Killed by Horse

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

An accident which resulted in the death of a five and a half years old child, Nicholas Sotiros, son of Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Sotiros, of the…

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Mr. Drummond Unhurt in Car Collision Bega

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 1

A car,in which the Minister for Education, Mr. Drummond, was making an official visit to the South Coast, was involved in a collision…

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Railway Collision Man Killed in Queensland Passenger Train Damaged Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1939 · page 9

When a passenger train and a shunting engine collided at Bundamba Station, near Ipswich, to-day, one man was killed and two seriously injured…

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Man Drowned Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

Frederick Gilbert, aged 85 years, Landoox-street, East Brighton, swept 150 yards out by strong under-current when swimming at Brighton yesterday…

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Boy Drowned in Brick Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

Bruce Haskell, aged 11 years, of Merrylands, was drowned to-day in Williams' brick bit at Merrylands. He was unable to swim, and when he…

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Woman Tennis Player Injured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 5

When Dr. Arthur Wilson was called to an accident outside his home in Toorak-road, South Yarra, last night, he found that the victim was his…

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Queensland Floods Boy Drowned; Surveyors Marooned Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

As a result of the torrential rains which again swept the tropical north coast during the week-end, a boy was drowned at South Johnstone, a survey…

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Car Strikes Tram Three Severely Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 1

Striking a standard on the footpath, a motor car cannoned violently into a tram in Crown-streel, Surry Hills, yesterday. Three men…

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Spanish Rail Disaster 31 KILLED; 100 Injured Barcelona

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 1

Thirty-one were killed and 100 injured. when a train crashed into a stationary waggon near tie Sierra tunnel and subsequently crashed into…

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Hindu-moslem Rioting 15 KILLED; 113 Injured Cawnpore

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

Hindu-Moslem rioting broke out last night owing to the Moslems objecting to tie playing of music in front of a mosque. Three were killed and 50…

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Speedway Test Australia Defeats England Two Riders Injured Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 6

A crowd of 80,000 saw Australia defeat England in the fourth speedway i test by 28 points to 34 last night. A. Stendham (England) and G…

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