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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Accidents in Industry (Continued.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 5

In conducting these tests the psychologist is mindful of the possibility of the presence of emotional or neurotie traits in the…

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From Everywhere injured Motor Cyclist Dies

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 4

Injured Motor Cyclist Dies. Carl Muller, 22, of Rosemont, died in the Bulli Hospital yesterday afternoon of injuries suffered when his…

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Four Drowned Mar Holiday In Sydney Rescuers Fail

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A boy was drowned in Cook's River yesterday while his companions were rescuing, his young brother, another boy…

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Car Over Capsize Near Marulan Two Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 5

Two young Victorian women were injured and two male companions had narrow escapes in a car capsize on the…

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Accident and Lions About

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 8

DURBAN: A Natal woman and her daughter had a terrifying experience recently when motoring through the Kruger National Park. While…

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Nurse Drowned in Surf

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Mabel Wright, 24, a nurse at the Hillcrest private hospital, Merewether, was carried out to sea and drowned while…

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Locals Injured in Car Smash

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

When the driver, Miss Kath, Fisher, swerved the car to avoid a child on a acooter, the vehicle skidded and crashed into a tree…

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Injured in Yass River

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 2

Shirley Raine, of Pollux Street, was playing in the yass River on Tuesday When she jumped on a bottle and sustained a large…

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Crushed by Wall Carpenter Fatally Injured Goulburn Man Rescue Efforts By Workmate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 5

One man was fatally injured and another had a remarkably narrow escape when a wall of a weatherboard school in course…

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Car Accidents Near Bookham Woman’s Collarbone Fractured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 8

On the afternoon of Christmas Day, about 4 o’clock, a car driven by David' Fletcher, of 29 Wangaratta Street, Richmond, Victoria,…

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Accidental Death Youth Shot In The Head

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 1

The Christmas-New Year holiday was marred locally, says the Cooma Express, by the tragic death on Wednesday last, December 29, of Mr. Owen…

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Boy Drowned in River

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday : While playing with two other boys on the bank of the. Yarra, near the South Yarra railway station, on…

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Five Injured in Shop Explosion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 4

AUCKLAND," Monday: A violent explosion,, believed to be (due to an accumulation of gases, wrecked a chemist's shop and damaged…

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Accidental Drowning Coroner's Finding Death of Erle Jackson Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 4

A verdict of death from drowning was returned at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Erle Jackson, who…

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Accidents Motor Cyclist Injured Bullet Through Boy's Foot

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 3

Two accidents occurred during the week-end which may have had serious consequences, but, fortunately did not…

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Bevendale Tragedy Child Killed: Two Others Injured Three Generations Involved

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 2

Within sight of his home at Bevendale Ronald Charles, three and a half years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Noakes, was killed…

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Canoe Fatality in Bay

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: One boy was drowned in Botany Bay yesterday, and his companion reached shore exhausted. Their…

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Woman Sent for Trial Police Chief Killed In Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 7

PERTH, Thursday: The District Coroner, Mr. T. Y. A. Lang, P.M., yesterday committed Mrs. Margaret Louise Dunlop, an…

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A Severe Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 2

A young man named Mr Val Cullen of Aurvill, has met with a severe accident. He is a share-farmer, and had almost completed a very…

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Serious Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 2

Mr Leslie Barnes, of the staff of T. and G. Barnes, Ltd., Murrumburrah, met with a serious accident on Friday night last. He stepped off the…

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