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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

1,240 stories in Riverina's papers · page 11 of 62

Two Women Injured Car Overturns on Prince's Highway Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

Two women were seriously injured early this morning when a car crashed through a safety fence on Prince's Highway near waterford and…

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Mr. Drummond Car Accident Bega

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 4

A car, in which the Minuter for Educatian (Mr. Drummond) was making an official visit to the South Coast, was involved in a collision with another…

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Road Accident Toll Vigorous Police Drive Wholesale Prosecutions to be Launched SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 2

In a vigorous drive to reduce the toll of road accidents, police this week will launch wholesale prosecutions against pedestrians who are held to…

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Drowning Accident at Taree Former Resident of Whitton the Victim

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 2

Word was received here on Friday that Mr. Jack Lewis Street, aged 41 years, brother-in-law of Mrs. K. Buchanan (Narandera), Mrs. Phil…

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Earthquakes in Italy MANy Persons Injured Rome

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 1

Two earthquakes have occurred in the Mugello area, on the lover slopes of the Etruscan Apennines, near Florence…

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Floods in South Africa 40 Drowned; Food Shortage Threatened Johannesburg

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 1

Floods have isolated Barberton, and 40 persons were drowned. The floods threaten a food shortage for whites and famine for the natives on the…

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Man Injured in Explosion. After Alleged Quarrel Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 3

A violent explosion followed a quarrel alleged to have broken out in a house in Moreton-street. Concord, on Saturday night…

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Youth Killed in Culvert Crash Saturday Night Fatality Near Nine-mile Tank

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the car in which he was travelling with the own­er did not capsize, a youth, Les­lie McDonald (17) was thrown…

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Two Killed; 14 Injured Lorry Plunges Down Bank Victims Crushed by Tractor Grafton

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 1

Two men were killed and fourteen other men were injured, two critically, when a contractor's lorry from Lismore loaded with 18 men, missed the…

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Conviction Follows Accident

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 4

For having driven a utility motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. Frank Gibbs, railway porter, of Albury. was fined £8 with £1/7/3 costs…

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Fatal Car Accident Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 1

Kenneth Smith, 22, of Beecroft, was fatally injured early this morning, when a car in which he was a passenger overturned several times on…

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Conviction Follows Accident Albury

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 1

For having driven a utility motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, Frank Gibbs, railway porter, of Albury, was fined £8, with £1/7/3 costs…

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Queensland Rains Youth Believed Drowned Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 4

William Clark, aged 19 years, is believed to have been drowned in a flooded creek near aloomba when the horse he was riding was washed away…

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Two Cyclists Killed Collision with Car Inverell

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 1

Harold Downes, aged 28 years, married, and John May, aged 25 years, were killed last night in a bead-on collision between' their cycles and a…

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Indian Riots 40 KILLED; 400 Injured Cawnpore (India)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 1

It is officially stated that 40 were killed, 400 injured and 600 arrested since rioting began on Friday. Curfew is now being enforced and the military…

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Accident Victim Dies Grafton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 4

George Johnstone, aged 34 years, of Liemore, who was injured in a lorry smash at Shark's Creek on Sunday' night, died in hospital this morning…

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Gosford Accident Horse Crashes Into Rail Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 8

Towards the finish in the Maiden Handicap at the Gosford races to-day, Headall pulled to the outside of the track and just after passing the judge's…

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Drowning Inquest Witness Complimented on Bravery Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 4

A graphic description of a battle in heavy seas off Long Reef on December 27, when Leslie Henry Hassett, aged 48 years, was drowned, was given by…

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Boy's Foot Injured Walwa

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 6

George Mann, aged 10 years, of jingellic, suffered a serious injury to his foot when a sledge laden with fodder passed over it. He was taken to the…

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Five Men Injured Car and Lorry Collide Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 1

When a motor lorry overturned at Manly to-day following a collision with another motor car, five men were injured, two seriously. Sydney Bartlett…

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