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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Items of Interest Eye Seriously Injured--

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4

Whislt Mr K. Holman, of Junee, was placing palings on a fence, a loose paling with a nail protruding came away from the fence and the…

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Sequel to a Collision £180 Damages Case From Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 3

As briefly announced in the Penny Post yesterday, John Henry Wittwer, of Crookwell, was awarded £180 damages in…

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Car Overturns. Two Injured Men in Yass Hospital

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4

Malcolm A. G. Hobson, 27, salesman for the Sanitarium Health Food Co., of 213 Sussex-street, Sydney and whose private residence is 419…

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Car Accident Plunged Into Ditch Two Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 7

Two Marulan residents were seriously injured and a third had a remarkable escape when their motor car over-turned in a…

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Cyclist Seriously Injured—Skull Fractured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 3

It has now been ascertained that Henry Ingram, 58, who was admitted to the District Hospital on Saturday following a fall from his bicycle, has…

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Escapes in Car Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 5

Three persons, one can officer at the Light Horse camp at the Goulburn showground, had a narrow escape from injury early…

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Injured Twice Same Night

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 5

Within a short time of being treated for an injury to the hand, Keith Cooper, 18, of Glifford Street, returned to the Goulburn…

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Contractor Has To Pay £180 Damages Sequel to Collision in August Claim by Crookwell Farmer Succeeds

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 3

John Henry Wittwer, farmer, of Crookwell, was awarded damages amounting to £180 by Judge Coyle at the District Court held in Goulburn on Wednesday last. The action was brought by Wittwer against William…

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Cowra Dentist Pays £82 to Crookwell Girl Sequel to Car Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 4

At the District Court, Goulburn, last week a settlement was reached in an action in which Zelma Seaman, of Crookwell, sued…

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Car Turns Over Twice Accident on Jugiong Hill

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 2

A car driven by Mr E. Boddy, Caul field.(Vie.), overturned twice on the Jugiong road, near Inglewood, the home of Mr and Mrs T. Coggan…

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Man Killed Car Fails On Bend Others Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: A car containing a party of young people returning to the city from a drive in the country failed to take a bend on…

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Thrown Into Ditch Motor Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 7

Extensive injuries were suffered by James Saunderson, aged 19, when he was throw from his motor cycle at 6 o'clock…

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Three Hurt in Cycle Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 4

A youth and two girls, one an infant, were injured in minor cycling accidents at Goulburn during the week-end…

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Car Collision Near Bargo Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 1

Mr. M. Adams, and Mr. G. Burnham, of Sydney, sons-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. W. Adam, of Moss Vale, were lucky to escape serious injury on Friday…

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Hurt in Collision with Car

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 5

Donald Robertson, of Proll St., an employee of the Goulburn City Council, was injured in a collision with a car while riding a…

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Bad Accident Averted at Orange Air Pageant

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 1

A bad smash was narrowly averted on Saturday at the Orange air page, ant, when Pilot Fowler, Of Sydney, was attempting tot avoid the crowd…

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Motor Gar Accident Residents Aroused by Motor Smash

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 4

In a midnight smash at a notorious corner on the Hume Highway near Liverpool, a man was killed and four passengers injured, when a car crash…

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Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 9

Robert Easley, employed at Illalong Creek railway quarries, was struck on the head with a piece of metal while using a spawling…

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Speedster Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY. Tuesday: When his motor-cycle crashed over an embankment at the Sportsground to-day, Wally Lloyd a speedway rider,…

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Claim As Result of Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Arising out of the collision between the trawler Durraween and the passenger liner Wanganella, near Montague Island,…

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