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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

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Actress Injured Sensational Stage Accident AUCKLAND

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 August 1927 · page 3

The performance at' the Strand Thealre on Saturday night ended sensationally when three blank cartridges were accidentally fired point…

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To-day's Cables Building Crash Remarkable Accident Workmen's Narrow Escape LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 August 1927 · page 2

There was an extraordinary spectacle late at night in the heart of the city. A huge building in Cornhill,…

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Motor Car Overturns Footballers' Injured COOMA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 2

When the Queanbeyan Warrigal footballers were returning from a match at Bega a seven-seater Hudson car loaded with footballers and…

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Rooke Unlucky Injured in 'Plane Crash CALCUTTA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 2

Dennis Rooke continues to be dogged by ill luck during his flight through India. About a week ago he was forced to land in a field at…

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Mile Crawl Injured Farmer Dies AUCKLAND

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 2

Peter Anderson, 42, farmer, at Carington Wairarapa, was found dead in a watercourse with severe gunshot wounds in the breast and above the…

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Shooting Accident at Rye Park

The Yass Courier · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 6

With the flesh of his arm blown completely to pulp, and the bone exposed through the explosion of a gun, a youth named Moorby (18), of Rye…

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Are You Safe? Two Wheel Brakes Double Risk of Accidents 84 Per Cent Cars Now Use Four Wheel Brakes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 5

The N.R.M.A., with its enormous membership of 32,000, is the greatest morning body in Australlia . Mr. Fie[?]der is its Technical Engineer…

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Shocking Gun Accident at Rye Park

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 8

A shocking gun accident occurred at Rye Park on 4th inst., when Alister Moorby, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moor by, of Rye Park,…

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Are You Safe? Two Wheel Brakes Double Risk of Accidents 84% Cars Now Use Four Wheel Brakes

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. with its enormous membership of 32,000 is the greatest motoring body in Australia. Mr. Fielder is its Technical Engineer…

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Are You Safe? Two Wheel Brakes Double Risk of Accidents 84 Peer Cent. Cars Now Use Four Wheel Brakes

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Saturday 13 August 1927 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. with its enormous membership of 32,000 is the greatest Motoring Body in Australia. Mr. Fielder is its Technical Engineer…

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Struck by Propellor Accident at Mascot 'Drome SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 August 1927 · page 3

The first accident since the introduction of pleasure aeroplane flights at Mascot occurred at the aerodrome yesterday afternoon, when an elderly…

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Porter Injured In Critical Condition

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 August 1927 · page 2

Frederick Charles Sims (23), a railway porter, residing at Kenmore, was badly injured in a fall from his motor cycle shortly before six o'clock…

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Football Accident Breadalbane Man's Leg Broken

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 August 1927 · page 3

An unfortunate accident happened to a member of the Breadalbane Main Road team at Crookwell un Saturday afternoon last…

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Fall From Express Causes Victorian's Death Accident Near Murrumburrah MURRUMBURRAH

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 August 1927 · page 2

William Charles Miller, of Oakley (Victoria) died in the Murrumburrah District Hospital at 5.30 this morning as the result of…

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Railway Fatality. a Man Falls from a Train

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 August 1927 · page 2

A terrible fatal accident occurred about 3.50 a.m. on Wednesday morning, when a man fell from the Express Train when…

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Railway Man's Death Accident Ends Fatally

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 August 1927 · page 2

Frederick Charles Sims, who was injured in a motor cycle accident when he was returning from his work to his home at Kenmore on Wednesday…

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Girder Crashes Three Workers Injured SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 4

Three men were badly injured when a huge grider which was being lifted crashed at the Sydney Steelworks at Marrickville. The names of the victims are:…

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Late Mr. J. H. Sargent Accidental Death Coroner's Verdict

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 1

John Henry Sargent died at the Yass District Hospital on the 31st day of July, 1927, from the result of injuries accidentally received at…

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Football Accident Breadalbane Man's Leg Broken

Taralga Echo · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 2

An unfortunate accident happened to a member of the Breadalbane Main Road team at Crookwell on Saturday afternoon last…

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Curious Fatality Toowoomba

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 2

Earnest Hammill, of Beddington Hill, who rode into a barbed wiregate in the dark, died at Clifton Hospital Yesterday, after having been…

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