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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Rabbit Bite? Injured Finger Compensation Claim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 April 1930 · page 2

What was alleged to have been a bite from a rabbit, said to have been received by Cyril Todek when digging out rabbits on…

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Collision in Air Fall of 3000 Feet LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 April 1930 · page 3

Two R. A. F. pilots Flying Officer Percy and Flying Officer Brake, had a remarkable escape when their machines, both…

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Axeman Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 April 1930 · page 3

Bungonia: While lopping willows to provide feed for stock, Mr. Jack Lyons drove the blade of the axe into one of his hands, inflicting a nasty wound…

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Rabbit Bite? Compensation Asked For Injured Finger Claim Dismissed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 April 1930 · page 3

What was alleged to have been a bite from a rabbit, said to have been received by Cyril Todek when digging out rabbits on…

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Rabbit Bite Injured Finger Compensation Claim

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 April 1930 · page 7

What was alleged to have been a bite from a rabbit, said to have been received by Cyril Todek when digging out rabbits on "Waterview"…

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Car Overturned Tourist Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 April 1930 · page 3

A blow-out in one of the front tyres caused a motor car to overturn on the Tarago Road on Good Friday afternoon, Mrs. A. W. Brooke of Eastwood…

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Car and Cycle Collision at Kippilaw

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 April 1930 · page 3

Whilst coming into Goulburn from the Tourist Trophy races, and when on the Kippilaw Road about six miles from Goulburn, a motor cycle ridden…

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Unusual Accident Wood Flies Back

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 April 1930 · page 3

Mr. Harry Grant. of Crookwell, was packing and burning timber on Shepherd's Lodge, Wheeo, when a piece of wood he attempted to throw on the…

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Serious Accident on Racing Track

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 April 1930 · page 3

Whilst competing in the final of the Tourist Trophy race on the course. Allen Eastmure, of Ashfield, Sydney, crashed. He picked himself up, got…

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Nine Hurt in Accidents Holiday Motor Toll Nurse in Critical Condition Capsize Near Gunning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 April 1930 · page 3

Nine people were injured—three seriously— in motor accidents in and around Goulburn over the holidays. Several of those involved in smashes had remarkable escapes…

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Driver Killed Speedway Fatality SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1930 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred during one of the motor car races at Penrith Speedway yesterday afternoon, the victim being Frederick Peterson, a…

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Twenty Drowned Boat Capsizes Cairo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1930 · page 3

Twenty holiday makers were drowned in the Nile When their boat capsized in mid-stream…

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Fall at Show W. H. Briggs Injured Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 April 1930 · page 3

In a hunting contest at the Show to-day Dashaway, and it rider, W. H. Briggs, crashed heavily Briggs suffered a probable frature of the skull…

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Car Overturned Three Injured Braidwood Road Smash

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 April 1930 · page 3

Mrs. D. Flynn and her two daughters, Mona (16) and Colleen (6), were lucky to escape serious injury following the capsize of a…

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Pea Rifle Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 April 1930 · page 2

When handling a pea rifle, Allan, the ten-year-old son for Mr. and Mrs. L. Jobberns, of Church Street, Goulburn, was shot through the left foot…

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Footballers Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 2

In the Yass v. Galong football match last Sunday, W. Bray, a local player sustained a fracture of the wrist and is at present an inmate at…

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Twenty Drowned Steamer Sinks Athens

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 3

An explosion in the boiler room sank the Italian steamer Frederico Carootla, in three minutes, drowning 20 out of a crew of 23…

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Drowned While Night Flying Copenhagen

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 3

Two Danish airmen were drowned while night flying from Copenhagen to Warnemunde when they came down in the Baltic Sea…

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Found Drowned Woman in Bath Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 3

Mrs. Linda Elizabeth Thomson (39) was found drowned last night in a bath at the residence of her daughter-in-law at Burton Street. It…

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Motor Accident. Capaize Near Gunning

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 3

A serious motor accident occurred on Easter Saturday a few miles from Gunning, as a result of which N[?] Caldwell, of…

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