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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Boy Injured Fall From Bicycle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 3

Falling from his bicycle near the corner of Kinghorne and Joshua Streets shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, James…

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45 Feet Fall Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Two students for the Catholic priesthood fell 45 feet over the brink of a rocky precipice near Mt. Victoria yesterday,…

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Youth Injured Garage Casualty

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

Severe facial injuries were sustained by Kenneth Whipp, an apprentice mechanic, at J. Turner and Sons' garage, Verner Street, this morning…

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Holiday Mishaps Crop of Accidents at Young

The Young Chronicle · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 1

A crop of accidents, none of them, luckily, of a serious nature, marked the holiday period at Young…

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Car Ablaze Highway Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 3

Fire destroyed a touring car, following an accident on the Hume Highway between Goulburn and Marulan yesterday…

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Surfer Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 3

Brisbane: Keyin Patrick Canavan. 18, of Freestone, near Warwick, was drowned while surfing at Southport. Observers in an aeroplane which…

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Fatal Accident Grazier Killed On Yass-Mullion Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

Mr. C. E. Ledger, a well-known grazier, was killed when he was thrown out of a car last Saturday week afternoon. Mr. Ledger…

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Motor Accident Car Turns Over On Conroy’s Gap

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 2

Archdeacon Langley, of All Saints, Woollahra, and Mrs. Langley were the victims of a motor accident yesterday afternoon. They were returning…

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Accidental Death

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

The inquest was concluded late this afternoon and the remainder of the evidence will be published in next issue. The Coroner found that Charles…

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Two Drowned Picnic Tragedy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Two men were drowned and their women companions were rescued with difficulty when a rowing…

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Car Over Archdeacon Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 1

YASS, Tuesday: Archdeacon Langley, of All Saints', Woollahra, was injured, and Mrs. Langley was badly shaken in a…

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Eighteen Hurt Trams Crash Collision at Balmain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Eighteen persons were injured in a collision between two trams at Balmain early to-day…

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Fatal Fall Accident at Rest Home Goulburn Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY; Wednesday: The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday inquired into the circumstances surrounding the death of Miss…

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Motor Collision Car And Lorry

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 2

Last Saturday night, shortly after 8 o’clock, a motor-car, driven by Ron Merri[?] (inset), son of Mr. and…

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A Bride injured. Married at Hospital

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 4

While she was driving with her parents to Collie, Perth, to be married, Miss Prosser, of Bunbury was severely injured when the steering…

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Motor Accidents

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 4

Despite the strictness with which the Traffic Department is enforcing regulations, the number of motor accidents in New South Wales and the…

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Doctor Charged Sequel to Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The City Coroner (Mr. Grant, P.M.) found that Dr. Albert Henry Hughes, 47, of Collins Street,…

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Two Drowned Wallendbeen Tragedy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 3

A cloudburst near Wallendbeen overwhelmed two brothers while they were crossing a causeway in a sedan car and both…

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Road Fatality Capsize Near Canberra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday: Harold Edwin Whatty, 32, an employee at the Government Printing Office, was fatally injured, and…

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Shunter Killed Crushed by Buffers Fatality at Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 3

John Scott, aged 52, was killed instantly when he was crushed between the buffers of an engine and a stock-truck during…

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