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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Swept to Sea Two Schoolgirls Drowned NEWCASTLE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 1

While they were swimming off Avoca Beach yesterday afternoon two schoolgirls were drowned. They were:—Elsie Beweock aged…

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Run Down Fettler Cut to Pieces Fatality at South Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1929 · page 2

Run down by the Temora Mail train, as he was riding a tricycle towards Yarra, Francis O'Neill, a railway fettler, was…

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Head On! Nine Injured In Collision SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 2 January 1929 · page 2

In a terrific head on collision betweem a motor car and a lorry in Campsle yesterday afternoon, nine persons were injured. of whom seven…

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Motoring Accident Picnic Party's Unlucky Trip

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 2

Mr. Roger Maher, who was seriously injured in a motor smash near Moss Vale on Tuesday is an inmate of "Lister" Hospital. His condition…

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Premature Explosion Sooley Creek Dam Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

At the magisterial inquiry conducted by the City Coroner (Mr. G. A. Stevenson) to-day concerning the death of Ernest Walter Hill, who died…

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Car Engine Explodes Motorist Fatally Injured KEMPSEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

A ear in which four men. Including Patrtick O Neill, of Cessnock. were travelling on Saturday suddenly stopped at Eilenborough…

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Fatal Dive Linesman's Neck Broken Tragic Accident Near Kingsdale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

Slipping on the bank as he was about to dive into a pool of water, near Kingsdale, late yesterday afternoon, William Turner (36)…

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Stepped Into Space Train Passenger Injured BRISBANE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 6

While the Townsville, mail train was travelling at high speed between lsis Junction and Bundaberg at midnight yesterday, a passenger, Cecil…

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Schoolboy Drowned Tin Canoe Swamped SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

Geoffery Curtis aged 13, of Liverpool St. Paddington was drowned in Elizabeth Bay Yesterday afternoon when his tin canoe filled with water…

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Kingsdale Tragedy Verdict of Accidental Death

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 5

After hearing evidence at the resumption of the inquest yesterday into the death of William John Turner, the victim of the diving fatality at…

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"Men Looked On" Boy Drowned Before Crowd SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 3

"A crime! The men stood by and made no attempt to save the little fellow They could easily have got his body from the water if they had tried…

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Bus Capsizes Four Workmen Injured ALBURY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 6

A motor bus, carrying 25 workmen from Albury to the Hume reservoir, overturned near the weir yesterday. Some of the occupants were pinned…

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Accident to Honeymoon Couple

The Yass Courier · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 1

Mr and Mrs Kingsford, married at Bega on Saturday last, were returning from Genoa to Eden yesterday when a big tree fell right across the…

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Accidental Shooting

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 4

Cyril Pluis , 14, was accidently shot in the eye by his younger brother, who was firing at birds, and pulled the trigger as Cyril came round the…

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Gun Accident. Mr. Clarrie Webb Loses Thumb. Was Out After Rabbits

The Young Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

While shooting rabbits on Tuesday Mr. Clarrie Webb had the misfortune to lose the thumb of his right hand…

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Smashed to Matchwood Level Crossing Accident BELLINGEN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

Mr. H. Carstens had an amazing escape when a goods train ran down the car he was driving at a level crossing, at Raleigh and, smashed the…

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'Plane Smash Fatality Reported SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

A Moth plane, which left Richmond aerodrome this morning in company with another machine of the same type, is…

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Three Drowned Surfboat Swamped Auckland (N.z.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 3

The swamping of a surfboat at Marakopa. near Kawhia, resulted in the loss of three lives. A party of seven were testing a…

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Lorry Overturns Linesman Fatally Injured QUEANBEYAN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

Fatal injuries were sustained by Mr. A. Keatch in linesman in the employ the Postmaster General's Department, when a motor lorry, on…

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Gun Accident at Orange ORANGE

The Yass Courier · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 5

“Poll the trigger and see if there is any air in the gun,” said Miss Olivia Larsen this morning to Robert Rutledge, a 15 year old companion…

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