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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Car Dives Into River Four Drowned Tragedy at Taree

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

SYDNEY, Monday: Four persons were drowned, three of them without a chance of escape, when a sedan car left the main road at a point severed…

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Tidal Wave Strikes Steamers Three Drowned One Man Killed

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

MELBOURNE, Monday: When the Bass Strait passenger steamer Nairana was entering Port Phillip Heads yesterday morning, a huge…

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Train Hits Lorry One Killed: 4 Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A child was killed; a lorry driver and another child were so gravely injured that they are not expected to live, and…

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Motor Collision

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1936 · page 4

A collision occurred between a motor cycle ridden by Charles H. G. Stone, 23, of Mayfield, Newcastle, and a motor car, near the…

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Shooting Accident. Youth Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1936 · page 3

Claude Hamilton, 18, of Marrar, was accidentally shot--in the arm on Monday, and the wound is so serious that it is feared his arm…

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Shot Dead Accident to Boy. Rabbiting Trip Discharged Gun

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

While driving in a sulky with with two companions from Melbourne, John Alford, 13, only child of Mr, and Mrs. John…

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'Reporting Accidents

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1936 · page 4

In New York a new Bill says that a driver of a vehicle who injures a dog must report the matter to the dog owner or to the nearest…

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Planes Smashed in Collision Three[?] Hurt Ground Mishap Mascot 'Drome Stir

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 4

Two pasesngens and a pilot were cut about the head and other persons had remarkable escapes from injury in the tangle…

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Motor Crashes Costly Racket in U.s.a. Fakers of Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 17 April 1936 · page 3

The rates you pay for (automobile ) insurance," writes William Corbin in the March issue of American Magazine, of…

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Struck By Car Former Yass Resident Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 2

{ Mr. Norman Yorke, formerly of Yass, when returning from the League football match in the city on Easter Saturday was struck by a…

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Car Smash Mr. Hughes Injured Near Albury

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

ALBURY, Monday: The Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Hughes), Dame Mary Hughes, and two other persons were injured in a collision between…

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MR. W. M. HUGHES Injured In Motor Smash in Yass on

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 20 April 1936 · page 5

Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.P., and Dame Mary Hughes, who were in Yass on Saturday afternoon and got petrol at Asprey’s garage, were injured when…

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Nearly Drowned in Creek

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 21 April 1936 · page 2

A small boy was nearly drowned in the creek on Sunday. People going home from the football match fished him out…

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Caught in Belting Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 22 April 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Leonard Lee, 40, of Abbotsford, was working near a machine in an engineer's shop at Petersham when his overalls…

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Local and General Fatally Injured at Hockey

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

Suffering terrible pain after being struck by a hockey ball during a game with Rural School girls’ team, Patricia Brady (14), of Orange) was…

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Motor Cycle Overturns Smash at Wombat. a Man Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 4

When his motor-cycle overturned at Wombat on Saturday evening, R. Weaver, a Salvation Army Officer, statione d[?] at Young, was seriously injured…

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Motor Car Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 4

At an early hour yesterday morning, Mr. Neville Graham, son of Mr and Mrs J. C. Graham, of Nubba, met with a motor accident. He…

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Peculiar Golf Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 10

While on the Junee golf links Mr. L. Buckland, an inspector of the Commonwealth Bank, who is a guest of the Mutch family over the…

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Death Follows Sports Accident Small Boy Who Was Knocked Down. Took No Notice at Time. Tragic Occurrence

The Young Chronicle · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 2

A seemingly unimportant mishap at the schools' olympiad at Young on Wednesday had a tragic sequel yesterday when John Taylor (6)…

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Car Accident Man's Skull Fractured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: William Thomas Wallington, 23 was driving a motor car at Ashfield early this morning when a tyre blew out, with the…

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