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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Unusual Accident Motorist Falls Out of Car Between Yass and Gunning

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 1

An unusual car accident occurred between Yass and Gunning when a young man travelling from Sydney to Melbourne fell out of his car…

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REPRESENTATIONS Between Hume Park And Yass 2000 Visitors at Christmas Time Risk of Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 3

It was pointed out at Monday night’s meeting of the Municipal Council that during the Christmas holidays 2000…

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Motor Car Accident Child Out Of Danger Specialist Flew From Sydney

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 2

Dr. Hugh Poate, a Macquarie street specialist, flew from Sydney to Moruya last Monday afternoon to attend Jane Smith, the young…

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First Aid in Sydney 5346 Cases But No Serious Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY Thursday: Exhaustion caused by the long hours of standing in Sydney's brilliant sunshine and the press of the dense crowds took its…

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Suicide by Drowning Sad Happening at Boorowa

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 5

The District Coroner (Mr. O. W. Burns) held an inquest at the Court House, Boorowa, on Tuesday morning concerning…

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Two Injured When Motor Cycle Crashes One Serious Case

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 5

Two youths were injured, one seriously, when they fell from a motor cycle on the Hume Highway beyond the Goulburn…

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Women Injured When Two Cars Overturn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 7

Three women were slightly injured and eight others had narrow escapes when cars belonging to visiting motorists were involved in…

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Overcome By Fumes? Theory of Accident Car Badly Damaged

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 2

Mr. C. W. (Bill) Davis, motor car mechanic, who returned last week from Moruya, after visiting his wife in the hospital,…

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Peculiar Fatality

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 2

Owing to swallowing a top plate, containing three teeth, Victor Thomas Woodbridge, 60, former well-known resident of Young, died at the Royal…

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Car Overturns Two Injured Men in Yass Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 4

Malcolm A. G. Hobson, 27, salesman for the Sanitarium Health Food Co., of 216 Sussex Street, Sydney, and whose private residence is 419…

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Two Men Injured Van Turns Over Several Times

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 2

On the Bowning-Bookham section of the Hume Highway an advertising panel van driven by Mr, M. A. G. Hobson, 27, salesman, 216…

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Fatal Gar Accident Results in Murder Charge

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 2

At the Redfern Court, Frederick Wm. Gray, motor driver, was charged with having on January 29th, at Mascot, maliciously murdered Michael…

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Frogmore Mine Accident. Coroner Holds Inquest on the Late Bertie Sedgman

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 4

At the Court House, Boorowa, on Monday last, the District Coroner held as inquest on the late Bertie Sedgman, who died in the District Hospital from injuries received in an accident at the pheonix welfrer Mine at Frogmore on the Januray. The…

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Sad Accident at Bevendale Young Boy Killed When Thrown Out of Sulky

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

The District Coroner (Mr. O. W. Burns) held an inquiry at the Court House, Boorowa on Wednesday concerning the…

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Motor Car Fatality Young Man’s Death Chest Injuries

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 2

The motor car accident on the Bowning Bookhiam section of the Hume Highway, near Marilba. last Wednesday…

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Bondi Tragedy Police Believe Five, Not Six, to Be Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Arising out of yesterday's surf tragedies at Bondi, a conference of surf clubs will be called for. February 25, to discuss further…

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Drowned in Surf at Bondi Caught in Strong Undertow 200 in Difficulties After Four Huge Waves

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Four men were drowned in a raging surf at Bondi yesterday. Two other men a missing, and are believed to have been drowned. A man was also drowned at Newcastle beach, and a…

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Goulburn Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 7

Mr. C. Chesterton, 50, of Kinghorne Street, Goulburn, was injured on Friday afternoon last when the back tyre of the motor cycle on which he was…

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DAMAGES £180 Outcome of Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 5

A collision between a motor lorry and motor cycle on the Gunning-Crookwell Road on August 20, was the basis of a claim…

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From Everywhere Nun Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4

Rev. Sister Ursula, of the Girls, Orphanage, Kenmore, was admitted to St. John of God Hospital yesterday afternoon, and following an X-ray…

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