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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Trapped in Car And Drowned Two Men in Swollen Creek. Double Tragedy at Wallendbeen

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 2

Just as Inspector E. A. Burke, of Young, had organised a search party to go to Wallendbeen to assist the Cootamundra police to…

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Milky Way Moss Vale Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 1

Heavy rains and slippery roads usually produce their crop of accidents. One which befel a milk lorry yesterday afternoon in Moss…

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Leg Broken Fettler Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 4

ALBURY, Wednesday: A remarkable accident at Gerogery, near Albury, resulted in C. Potter, 21, of Goulburn, a railway…

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Lagoon St. Crash City Council Sued Outcome of Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 4

Lengthy evidence was heard at the Goulburn Small Debts Court when Dona d Patrick O'Keefe claimed £9/4/6 from the…

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Wallendbeen Tragedy Two Men Drowned

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1936 · page 2

A cloudburst near Wallend-been overwhelmed two brothers while they were crossing a cause way in a sedan car and both…

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Two Drowned Wallendbeen Tragedy

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

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

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Shunter Killed Crashed By Buffers Fatality at Goulburn

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5

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

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Car Over Bank Mr. Greg. McGIRR and Daughter Slightly Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 8

Mr. Greg. McGirr, ex-M.L.A., and his daughter Beatrice, suffered slight injuries when his car ran over an embankment on Woolgoola road, 14…

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"Railway Yards Poorly Lighted" Death of Shunter Inquiry Into Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 4

Evidence that the lighting in the Goulburn railway yards was bad, and that had it been better the accident might have been…

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Boy Drowned Canberra Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday: Richard Dennis, 12, a schoolboy, of Mill Hill Road, Waverley, Sydney, was drowned on Saturday in the…

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NON-SUIT Auburn St. Collision Claim for £10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 2

Holding that there was no evidence to show that C. Corkery was the driver of the car, the P.M., Mr. J. W. T. Forrest,…

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Sequel to Intersection Collision Claim For Damages Verdict for Defendant

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 2

"I do not think the plaintiff used proper care, and that he made an error of judgment," said the P.M., Mr. J. W. T…

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Injured by Fall Girl in Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 1

Falling heavily from her bicyclce at about midday yesterday, Marie Barker. 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. [?] Barker, of…

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Painful Accident Man’s Hand Lacerated on Broken Bottles

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 2

Mr. Tom Comins, of Dutton Street, who is employed by Messrs. T. J. Sheekey Ltd., cordial manufacturers, Cooma Street, was the victim of a…

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Boys Drowned Double Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Two boys were drowned in the Yarra, near Ivanhoe, yesterday. One of them, although a poor…

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Fall From Bridge Workman Severely Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 2

Young: Jack Hardman, 29, employed by Charles Hardy, Ltd., on the construction of a bridge at Maimuru, suffered shocking injuries…

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Bad Fall From Bridge to Concrete. Workman Injured

The Young Chronicle · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 1

Severe injuries were sustained by Jack Hardman (29), working on the new bridge at Maimuru, when he fell several feet and crashed on…

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Child Injured Foot in Car Wheel Accident at Tarlo Gap

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 January 1936 · page 3

Gordon Todkill, aged 6, was injured in a peculiar manner at Tarlo Gap on Sunday morning. The child was watching his father…

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Five Drowned Boat Capsizes

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: Five persons were drowned in a boating tragedy at Weymouth on one of the upper reaches of the Manukau…

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Killed by Truck Fatality At Yass

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

YASS, Tuesday: A motor truck, which was being driven from Sydney to Cowra by Philip John Likorice, skidded on some loose gravel on the…

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