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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

348 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 7 of 18

Painful Accident

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

On Saturday afternoon last about 2.30, Vera Newman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Newman, of Bishop Street, met with a painful accident in…

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Motor Bike Accident

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

About 2 a.m. on Good Friday morning, a man named Costello, of Wagga, whilst riding a motor bike 3[?] miles out of Yass on the Bowning…

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300 DROWNED In Indian River CALCUTTA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 3

Nearly 300 are believed to have been drowned in a steamer disaster on the river Jumna, between Natum Bhirenga and Nagarbari in…

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Strephon Is Injured in Box London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 3

The Australian racehorse, Strephon, while in the box, injured his hock. Training has been suspended days…

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Collision Ferry Steamers Meet in Fog Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 3

In an extremely dense fog which enveloped the harbour this morning for several hours, two ferry steamers came into collision just…

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Car Overturns Two Injured Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 May 1930 · page 3

When a baby motor-car in which they were riding overturned at Mascot this morning. Merman Becker, 30. Sustained injuries to the spine, and…

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Car Accident Man Charged Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 May 1930 · page 3

Frederick Thomas Miller motor mechanic, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having, by wanton driving, done bodily harm to Anne…

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Accidents at Harden

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 May 1930 · page 8

Harden has had a chapter of accidents last week. Stan Anderson, a railway employee, was attending to an electric light in the railway yard…

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Motor Collision Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 May 1930 · page 3

A motor car and motor lorry collided head on between Engadine and Loftus this morning. Both vehicles were badly damaged and three men…

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Terrible Storm's Fatality Roll Tokio

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 May 1930 · page 3

Two hundred and twenty persons were killed in a devastating storm which centred around Saghallen…

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Car Crash Yass Footballers Injured Struck Post

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 May 1930 · page 3

Five Yass footballers, together with the driver, were injured when a car capsized on the Yass Road, about 10 miles from…

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Accident Toll Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 May 1930 · page 3

During the week-end three persons met with violent deaths in New South Wales. A large number were injured…

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Six Killed Many Injured London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 May 1930 · page 3

Six were killed and forty seriously injured, several it is believed fatally burned, by an explosion in an oilcake factory at Liverpool…

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Injured Footballers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 May 1930 · page 2

At a meeting of footballers held Tuesday night to discuss ways and means of assisting the footballers recently injured in a car smash, it was…

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MURTHLY Well-known Sire Dead Peculiar Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 May 1930 · page 7

Mr. P. M. Bourke and his son, Mr. J. L. Bourke, suffered a severe loss on Monday morning in the death of the well-known thoroughbred sire…

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Motor Smash Men Injured Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 9 May 1930 · page 5

William Wilcox, 21, sustained probable fracture of the skull besides extensive lacerations to the right leg and Arnold Smith 19 lacerations to…

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Admiral Killed Motor Accident "Saved Valparaiso" Valparaiso

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 9 May 1930 · page 7

Admiral Sir Luis Gomez Carreno, who was knighted by King George in 1919, and who was one of the most outstanding figures in…

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School Teacher Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 12 May 1930 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Lockley, a member of the teaching staff of the Bourke Street Public School, cut his foot with an axe on Saturday. He was…

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Accident to the Express

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 May 1930 · page 2

When the up-express No. 4 was entering Binalong station at 4.15 a.m. on Saturday morning, a tyre came off one of the wheels of the tender, which…

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Fatal Collision Motorist Exonerated Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 16 May 1930 · page 2

A Coroner's inquest exonerated Mr E. M. Pearce, the well-known race. horse owner, from any blame in connection with a motor mishap which…

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