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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Accident to Mr. E. J. Short

The Burrowa News · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 2

Whilst returning from Douglas on Tuesday evening, Mr. E. J. Short had the misfortune to strike trouble in a bad patch of road, near the…

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Upside Down And No One Hurt Accident Near Taemas

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 July 1931 · page 2

Many men have done no more than Mr. Charlie Ledger did in his car on Thursday night and have never lived to tell the tale…

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Knocked Down Clinton St. Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 July 1931 · page 3

While pushing his cart along the eastern end of Clinton Street shortly before 6 o'clock on Saturday night, Harry Gilbert, a…

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Manly Motorist Fined Dangerous Driving Charge Collision with Mob of Sheep

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 July 1931 · page 2

An accident in which a car ran into a mob of sheep on the main Sydney Road near Marulan on May 27 resulted in the appearance at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday of Bror Otto Englandh, proprietor of the New…

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Euchre Party and Social in Aid of Injured Footballers

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 4

A euchre party and social took place in the Lyceum Theatre Harden, on Tuesday night, in ad of the Injured Footballers Fund. There…

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Motor Collision Canberra Cross Streets Two Cars Overturned

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 July 1931 · page 2

Two residents of Hall district, strangely enough, had a collision in their motor cars at Canberra on Tuesday last. Both cars were…

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Boy Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 July 1931 · page 3

Thomas Perry, aged 12, injured his head while playing on a gate at his home yesterday afternoon. It appears that Perry, who lives in Ruby Street…

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Player Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 July 1931 · page 1

On Saturday at Cootamundra, Charles Sinclair, 24 who was taking part in a school match High School and Teachers versus the…

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Accident at Rye Park. Three Young Men Thrown From Cart Horse Bolts Six Miles Along Gunning Road

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

Three young men, Ken, Max and Douglas Perceval, brothers, set out lost night on a possum hunting expedition in a horse and art. The…

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Girls Injured Week-end Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 July 1931 · page 3

Goulburn school girls were [?] in similar circumstances [?] week-end. McLeod, 11, of North…

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Car Skids Accident Near Bargo Goulburn Resident Hurt

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 July 1931 · page 3

Skidding on the slippery surface of the road near Bargo yesterday a sedan car, driven by Mr. Max Cooper somersaulted…

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Chrysocolla Beaten Accidental Interference Alleged

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 July 1931 · page 8

Chrysocolla, the Crookwell-owned grey gelding, who earned the plaudits of the crowd on the two previous Saturdays, fell somewhat from grace on…

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Street Accidents on the Increase London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 July 1931 · page 3

Mr. Lockner Lampson is the House of Commons, speaking on the Home Office vote, pointed out that 7305 persons were killed and 178,000 injured…

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Accidentally Shot Lad’s Misfortune Admitted To Hospital

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 July 1931 · page 2

A sixteen-year-old lad at Murrumbateman has paid dearly for the opossums which he sought to capture…

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Injured Footballer Dead

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 3

As a result of injuries sustained in a scratch match at Condobolin last week, M. Muir, on of the western town's most promising…

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Prince of Wales in Collision London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 3

The Prince of Wales, motoring home from golf, collided, at the entrance to the Sunningdale Golf Club with a car containing, two…

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Aeroplane Hits Tree Newly Married Couple Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 6

Misfortune befel a bride arid bridegroom at Crow's Nest one day last week, when the aeroplane in which they were travelling bit a tree when…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 August 1931 · page 4

Mrs. H. Greenwood, wife of the manager of the Woollen Mills, Ltd. was standing on a pair of steps, cleaning a window, when her skirt caught…

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Scalding Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 August 1931 · page 3

Lurline, the 17-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Maher, of 76 Mulwaree Street, who was scalded at her home on Thursday last, died in the…

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Grazier Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 August 1931 · page 3

Thrown from his sulky at 8.35 on Saturday night, Albert Edward Olsen, a grazier residing at Tallong, received a fractured left forearm. Olsen,…

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