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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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£30,000 Claim Arising Out of Car Accident Driver Has No Recollection of Crash Bees: Honey Winter Influences Seasonable Hints

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: When the action brought by Muriel Hainsworth Boynton against Charles William MacLeod, claiming £30,000 for alleged…

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Spills at Ascot Four Jockeys Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 May 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday: Four jockeys, were injured and one horse was killed in falls at Ascot on Saturday. The greasy track…

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Father Fined Permitted Son To Use Gun Accident Echo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1937 · page 1

A shooting accident, the victim of which was a 13-years-old boy, was mentioned at the Goulburn Police Court…

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Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 May 1937 · page 5

Mr. Bert Wilcox, of Sutton Forest, suffered a nasty accident while at work at Sutton Forest on Monday morning. Mr. Willcox was lifting a…

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Gun Fatality Wowagin Man Dies Verdict of Accidental Death

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1937 · page 6

The death of Mr. Walter Edwin Scott, of "Southernwood," Wowagin, a well-known district grazier, came as a great shock to his numerous…

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Old Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 May 1937 · page 2

Richard Holand, aged 74, of Perrima Road, Mittagong, was walking along the road lost Thursday evening when he was struck by a…

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Driver Freed From Manslaughter Charge Negligent Driving Charge Preferred James's Death Accidental, Says Coroner

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 May 1937 · page 1

The coronial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Samuel Edward James, who was injured in a car accident which occurred four miles from Goulburn on the Hume Highway on March 29, was concluded at…

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Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 May 1937 · page 5

An accident which could easily have had serious consequences happened on the Yass road near Tangmangaroo School on Sunday…

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Father Fined Permitted Son to Use Gun Accident Echo

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 May 1937 · page 7

A shooting accident, the victim of which was a 13-year-old boy, was mentioned at the Goulburn Police Court this week…

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Impatience Causes Accidents

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 May 1937 · page 6

Declaring that a large proportion of road accidents were caused by impatience on the part of drivers, Mr. H. I. Johnson, Secretary of…

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Accident Warning To Motorists

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 7 May 1937 · page 2

Passing motorists who stop to pick up injured from an accident are not always helping the unfortunates that have been involved, and this is…

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Car and Sulky Three Injured In Collision After Wedding

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 4

Three people were injured and several others had narrow escapes when a motor car and a sulky collided about 1½ miles from…

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Safer Roads Suggestion Made By Mr. L. T. Watson Accident Toll

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 1

Highways at least 25ft. wide and divided by a conspicuous line down the centre would contribute to greater road safety for…

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Car and Cyclist in Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 3

Keith Egan, 14, received an extensive cut on the right cheek, concussion and shock when his bicycle and a car collided in…

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Cootamundra Men injured on Way to Harden Car Capsizes One Critically Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 2

Lying in the Cootamundra District Hospital, in a critical condition is Mr. Harry Temple, aged 33 years, of Sutton street, Cootamundra as…

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Neck Broken. Motoring Fatality at Cunningar Dreadful Injuries

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 2

Dreadful injuries were received by John Alt (36), of Manning Grove, Bowning, in a motor accident at Cunningar, on Saturday…

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Gunning News Crashed Into Bridge Gunning Man Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 5

A man, woman and two children were injured when their car crashed into the timbers of the Burrowa River bridge. 15 miles from Binalong, last…

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Impatience Causes Accidents

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 1

Declaring that a large proportion of road accidents were caused by impatience on part of drivers, Mr. H. I. Johnson, Secretary, of the…

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Motoring Fatality Near Harden Dreadful Injuries

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 5

Dreadful injuries were reieived by James Alt (36), of Manning Grove Station, and a native of Bowning, in a motor…

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Car in Flames Six Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 7

NEW ZEALAND, Friday: When returning from a dance at Taranaki, a car containing three girls and three young men, capsized and burst into…

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