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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Road Accidents By Lt.-Col. H. A. Youden, D.S.O., V.D., Secretary, Road Safety Council of N.S. Wales

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 August 1938 · page 2

There were 2059 street accidents in the country parts of New South Wales during the year ended 30th June, 1938 compared with 1818 for…

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Safety First. Children and Road Accidents

The Southern Mail · Friday 26 August 1938 · page 2

The irreparable loss to New South Wales of 72 children under 14 years of age who were killed during the year ended December, 1687, in road…

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Accidental Death. Mittagong Fatality

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 4

A verdict of accident [?] returned by the District Coroner (Mr. W Terry) after an inquiry at Mittagong on Wednesday into the…

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Narrow Escape from Drowning. Wollondilly in Flood. Our Talloweena Correspondent writes:—

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 2

The breaking of the 1938 drought was responsible for what seemed to be a certain tragedy here to-day, when Mr. John Scott, a well-known…

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Marooned for Two Days. Almost Drowned in Murrain Creek

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 2

After a narrow escape from drowning in a flooded creek, Joseph Sewell, 28, was marooned in a hut for two days and nights…

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Hilltop Car Crash. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 3

The District Coroner (Mr. W. Terry) held an inquiry, at Mittagong Court House, on Wednesday, late the circumstancs surrounding the death…

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Hilltop Car Crash Verdict of Accidental Death

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 September 1938 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. W. Terry) held an inquiry at Mittagong Court House, on Wednesday into the into the circumstances surrounding the death…

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Federal Member Injured

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 1 October 1938 · page 2

The Assistant Minister for Trade and Customs, Mr. J. A. Perkins, was admitted to a private hospital at Nowra on Thursday afternoon,…

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Mr. Perkins Injured

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 2

Our Federal Member (Hon. J. A. Perkins, Assistant Minister for Customs) met with a motor accident whilst travelling from Moss Vale to…

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Road Safety Accident Reduction

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 October 1938 · page 3

For the first time since road accident statistics have been kept there has been a decrease in the figures during the first two and possibly three,…

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Fewer Road Accidents. Results of Education

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 4

The Secretary of the Road Safety Council writes:— For the first time since road accident statistics have been kept there has been there…

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Fatal Accident

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 4

One man was killed and another escaped with injuries when a motor lorry laden with forty-three drams of petrol left the road about a mile…

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Fatal Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 22 October 1938 · page 2

One man was killed and another escaped with injuries when a motor lorry laden with forty-three drums of petrol left the road about a mile…

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Reducing Road Accidents Duty of Citizens

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 November 1938 · page 3

Residents of provincial and jura] areas are being appealed to this year by the Road Safety Council to co-operate in the task of reducing, the…

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Claim Succeeds. Cycle and Car Collision

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 2

At a sitting of the District Court at Moss Vale on Tuesday, presided over by Judge Neild, Eric George Johnson, of Wild's Meadow, was…

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Reducing Road Accidents. Forming Country Branches

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 November 1938 · page 2

Residents of provincial and rural areas an being appealed to this year by the Road Safety Council to co-operate in the task of reducing the…

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A Safe Christmas How to Reduce Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 December 1938 · page 3

The Christmas holiday season, desired by all to be a time of happiness and recreation, too often is marred for hundreds of families by unfortunate…

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Sad Fatality

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 20 December 1938 · page 4

A sad fatality occurred on Monday afternoon when Mrs. P. Saunders, of the Cakery, Bowral was killed instantaneously. A eat in which…

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Fatal Accident

The Southern Mail · Friday 30 December 1938 · page 2

One man was killed and three others injured when a load slipped on a truck on its way from Picton to Bowral on Friday and threw them to…

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