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MOTOR-CYCLE TRAGEDY. [BY CABLE PBESB ASSN. COPYBIGHT.] SYDNEY, November 19. Three brothers named Meredith, aged 12, 10 and 6 years, were killed in a road accident at Auburn, a Sydney suburb. An elder brother was taking them for a ride on a motor-cycle and side-car, when it crashed with great force into a motor-lorry. TWO BOYS DROWNED. MELBOURNE, November 19. When a canoe containing four boys overturned at Brighton to-day, two boys were drowned. The victims were Colin Venyille, 16, and Harry Planner, 15. The canoe was a quarter of a mil© from the shore, in a calm sea,’but the boys’ weight loaded it down so that'it ‘had only four inches freeboard'. -When the boys decided " to return” to the shore, the canoe capsized in turning. The only swimmer in the party, Percival King, 17, swam to the beach, and returned immediately with "rescuers rowing a boat. They found only Ronald Planner, 17, clinging to the'upturned'canoe, the others having, sutik; . ■ ■ :W' : NEW SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. SYDNEY, November 19. Another Sunday newspaper, "the “Sunday Telegraph,” of 64 pages, was launched in Sydney to-day. It is published by the “Daily Telegraph” proprietary.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 8
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