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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Teacher Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 6

When Miss Bolton was proceeding along Bradley Street yesterday morning, a cricket ball came over a roof and stuck her in the eye…

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Railway Fatality Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 3

David Halahan, 40, while crossing the railway line near Dulwich Hill station this morning, was struck by a train and died shortly after…

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Double Fatality Adelaide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 3

When Walter Mawbay, of Colley-street, North Adelaide, tried to pass another car on the Hills-road, near Mylor, the car he was driving skidded…

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240 VOLTS Engineer Injured Serious Accident at Power House

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 2

Mr. R. Houston, Municipal electrical engineer met with a serious accident at the power house this morning in Dutton…

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Thrown Off Pole Linesman Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 2

Serious injuries were received by James Brown, 42, a linesman in the employ of the Goulburn City Council, when he fell from…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 February 1932 · page 3

Taralga: Mrs. M. Mudie, co-licensee of the Hotel Taralga, met with a serious accident at Clovelly at the week-end…

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A Strange Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 3

Mr. W. H. Byrnes, an auctioneer at Temora, was standing with his hand on a fence, watching horses being yarded, when a horse crashed into the…

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Braidwood the Fire Hydrants Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 1

A serious position has arisen in connection with the Braidwood water supply for Fire Brigade purposes, says the Braidwood Despatch. While…

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Injured Linesman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 7

Reference to the accident involving linesman Brown, who was thrown from an electric light pole following a severe electric shock, was made…

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Girl Drowned Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 February 1932 · page 4

A drowning fatality occurred in the Barwon River, at Mungindi, at Seven o'clock this morning, the victim being Suzanne Brady, aged 15, who dived…

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Fell Into Pit Youth Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 3

Percy Basterfield, 16, employed by Charles Rogers and Co., was lucky to escape serious injury when he fell into a concrete pit at…

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Ulm Injured Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 February 1932 · page 3

Flight-Liuetenant C.T.P. Ulm who accompanied Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith on several of his famous flights, and a companion…

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Six Escape Car Crash Remarkable Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 February 1932 · page 2

Although the car in which they were travelling somersaulted, and landed on its hood, on the Tarago Road, eight miles…

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Face Gashed Axeman's Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1932 · page 2

Arthur Burgess (33), a wood-carter, residing at 23 Shepherd Street, met with a serious accident while working in the bush…

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Accident to Ulm Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1932 · page 3

It is now thought that C. T. P. Ulm may have sustained injuries to his spine when he was hurt in the plane crash on Sunday. An x-ray…

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£100,000 LOST Costly Accident PARIS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 24 February 1932 · page 3

A mishap at Cherbourg docks is likely to prove very expensive. When 426 boxes of gold from New York were being unloaded from the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 3

Mrs. A. Wotherspoon, of Grafton, and her niece Miss Cross man were, accent visitors to Goulburn as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ranger of…

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Baby Injured Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 2

Beryl Russell, 2, was playing alone on the balcony of her parents residence at Darlinghurst when she over balanced and fell to the footpath…

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Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 7

Whilst Mr. Spence Kelly was at work on his farm, scooping out a dam, he had a remarkable escape from serious injury. He was in the…

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Fatal Accident at Bush Fire Man Killed by Fafling Limb Felling a Tree Mr. Sob Platt's Sad End

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 March 1932 · page 6

BOOROWA residents were greatly shocked, on Sunday evening last, to hear the aid news that a well-known resident of the district, in the…

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