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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Motor Accident. Wellington (N.z (

The Yass Courier · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 3

G. C. Withers, of Palmerston North, accompanied by his wife and two sons, 13 and 6 years, was last night motoring back from Welling…

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Simple Accident Causes Lad's Death Inquest on Sunday's Shooting Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 2

How surprisingly simple it is for serious consequences to arise in the handling of firearms was shown at the Goulburn…

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Sational Accident Brick Kiln Collapses Four Men Badly Injured SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 2

A sensational accident occurred at Bakewell's Brick Works, St. Peters, this morning, when a patent kiln collapsed and four men were precipitated…

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Hit by Truck Little Boy Injured Accident in South Goulburn Yards

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 2

Through being knocked down by a railway truck in the South Goulburn railway yards on Monday afternoon, Leslie Martin, aged 5 son of Mr…

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Motorist's Leg Broken Accident on Taralga Road

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 6

Through his motor cycle capsizing Mr. George Godfrey, an attendant at Kenmore Mental Hospital met with a serious accident on Saturday…

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Shocking Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 August 1925 · page 6

A man whose name is believed to be George Henry Monk, a flagman employed by the Railway Department, was crossing the railway line at…

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Mr. Charles Chudleigh Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 2

A serious Accident happened to Mr. Charles Chudleigh, of Frogmore, on Monday last. He was out fox shooting with a party on his…

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Galong Burning Accident. Second Victim. Gave Her Life for Her Son

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 5

Mrs Winifred O'Connor, wife of Thomas O'Couuor, of Galong, aud mother of James O'Connor, the young married man who was…

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Goulburn Car Crashes Passenger Badly Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 2

Two well-known Goulburn residents figured in a sensational motor crash at Liverpool on Friday. Skidding on a sharp bend in…

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Gunning Boy Injured Breaks Arm Whilst Jumping

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 6

At the sports meeting of St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, on Wednesday, Neville Roche, son of Mr. T. D. Roche, the well-known Gunning…

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Car Overturns Man Badly Injured GULGONG

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 6

A car in which three, men were proceeding, to Dunedoo to attend church meeting overturned. William Gibbs. Town Clerk at Gulgong, was…

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Unlicensed Firearms Sequel to Pea-Rifle Accident Two Youths Fined

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 6

At the Goulburn Police Court on Monday there was a sequel to the recent shooting fatality at Boxer's Creek, when William Francis Costa,…

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Doctor's Wife Killed Sad Accident Near Duntroon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 September 1925 · page 6

The news, phoned to Queanbeyan on Sunday evening to the effect that the wife of Dr. Henry Stoker, of Duntroon, had been killed by the over…

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Search for Tarago Workman Is He Drowned? Footprints Near The Lake TARAGO

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 September 1925 · page 4

Is Moran drowned? That question was on the lips of inhabitants of Tarago on Thursday night when Constable Suitor, who…

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Workmen Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 September 1925 · page 6

Norman Wilde. (32) and Roy Nicholls (35) were injured this moving when about two tons of earth foll to the bottom of a shaft which…

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Works Officer Injured Accident at Pumping Station Mr. Moriarty in Serious Condition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at the Goulburn waterworks [?]te on Thursday afternoon, when Mr. H. A. O. Moriarty, District…

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Motor Cars Crash Man Seriously Injured MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 6

A Collision occurred at collling-wood this morning between a taxi and a private motor car. Three men were injured. One Charles Day, is in…

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Roslyn Men at Law. Sequel to Collision. Damages £125. Mr. Bert Stinson Pays

Taralga Echo · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 2

A colision in Sloane-street, Gdulburn, involving a motor car driven by Bert Stiuson, of Roslyn, and a Sulky, in which was William Taylor,…

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Hit by Iron Bar Railwayman Severely Injured Accident at Roundhouse

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 September 1925 · page 2

Mr. Harry Jewell, fitter's labourer, was seriously injured through being struck by an iron bar at the locomotive roundhouse,…

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Wall Collapses Eastgrove Builder Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 September 1925 · page 2

When the wall of a house collapsed in Emma-street, Eastgrove, on Monday, Mr. W. Frost, a builder, had a narrow escape from…

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