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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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ACCIDENTS Heavy Week-end List Footballers Injured

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

Several residents of the Goulburn district were involved in accidents at the week-end. Incidentally, the Goulburn District…

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Farmer's Death Crookwell Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 August 1931 · page 3

Fatal injuries were sustained by William Woods, aged. 74, a pioneer resident of Crookwell, while working at his…

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Fatal Accident Mr. Wm, Wood Succumbs to Injuries Passing of One of Our Oldest Natives

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 August 1931 · page 4

Mr. Wm. Wood, of Crookwell, passed away at the District Hospital yesterday morning, following injuries received on the previous…

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Accident to Mr. Wilkinson

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 August 1931 · page 3

Mr. Sid Wilkinson, the genial goods porter at Murrumburrah railway station, met with, a painful accident on Saturday last. He was…

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May Lose Sight Car Accident Victim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 August 1931 · page 3

Serious injuries to her right eye was sustained by Miss Abel, of Sydney, who was involved in a car accident between Goulburn…

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Child Knocked Down Clinton St. Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 14 August 1931 · page 6

As he left school at the Convent of Mercy yesterday afternoon, Allan McLaughlin, 6, ran across the roadway in Clinton Street and into the path of…

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COLLISION Express Train Heavy Death Roll Twelve Killed Vienna

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 August 1931 · page 3

Twelve are known to have been killed and 38 injured when the Rome-Vienna express collided with a goods…

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Injured Footballers Benefit Dance To Be Organised

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 1

At a meeting of the C.D.R.F.L. held on Monday night Mr. Chas. Plumb asked whether the Board of Control proposed to do anything for…

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Youth Arrested Outcome of Fatality Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 August 1931 · page 3

The police have detained a youth in connection with the tragedy in Darlington last night when William Vincent who was riding a bicycle was…

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Tram Crash Four Injured Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 24 August 1931 · page 3

A Canterbury train collided with a stationary tram at the Leichhardt terminus early this morning. Glass partitions in every…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 August 1931 · page 2

Mrs. T. E. Kennedy, of Crookwell, wife of Mr. T. E. Kennedy, funeral director of Crookwell, had the misfortune to break her leg…

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New Match to Light 600 Pipes Lucky Accident London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 26 August 1931 · page 5

Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, the Australian chemist, who has invented an "everlasting match," has told how he made the discovery,…

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Lorry Overturns Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 31 August 1931 · page 3

A there-ton lorry laden with wool, and being driven from Ardlethan to Sydney, capsized about 12 miles from Mess Vale on the asphalt road last…

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Toti Dal Monte in a Collision Rome

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 31 August 1931 · page 3

Toti dal Monte has been admitted to hospital suffering an injury to her shoulder which she received in a motor smash on the Adriatic…

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A Flood of Death China's Calamity 300,000 Drowned Plague Follows Shanghai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 31 August 1931 · page 3

Official reports from Nanking estimate the total loss of life along the Grand Canal at 300,000, as a result of the…

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Accident at the Mill

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 September 1931 · page 2

Yesterday morning an accident occurred at Allsopp's Flour Mills, when two employees were injured. Sir. Walter Duggan and Mr. J. Metcalfe were…

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Horse Shied Accident On Highway Sanitary Contractor Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 2

As a result of an accident on the Hume Highway near the Yass saleyards about 5 o’clock on Friday afternoon, Mr. Thomas…

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Car Overturns Mr. J. Gordon Injured MITTAGONG

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 3

A motor car owned and driven by Mr. Henry Osborne, of Currandooley, Bungendore, skidded off the road about four miles north of Mittagong…

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Under Wheel Taralga Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 1

Taralga: While taking a load of hay to his father's home at Myrtleville Thomas McAlister was thrown off the cart and fell…

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Tragic Accident Car Loose in Crowd Four Persons Killed London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 3

An appalling accident occurred on the Monza (Italy) racing track during the Grand Prix de Monza race. Seventy competitors were…

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