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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Power Off Electrician’s Arm Burnt Accident In Cooma Street

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 2

When Mr. W. Smith, assistant to the Municipal Council’s electrical engineer was working on the electricity reticulation on a pole in Cooma…

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Rider Injured At Robertson Show

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 8

The precision with which the events were decided at the Robertson show was marred on the second day when an unfortunate accident befel…

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Self-Confidence Came TO Wendy Her Success The Result of A Happy Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 3

No man is a hero to his valet, according to the old saw, and few actresses are heroines to the electricians. An exception to this rule is Wendy…

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Accident at Bargo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 8

Mabel Daphne Davis, six years of age was so badly injured when struck by a motor car at Bargo last week that she died about eight hours…

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Light Horse Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 1

Two members of the Braidwood Light Horse Troop, Russell (Ballalaba) and Stevens, who has been employed by Mr. H. Grigg at "Khan…

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Road Safety Campaign Vital Need for Care Causes of Accidents Recklessness and Carelessness

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 7

Accidents continue to happen in country towns and on main roads and their severity reveals that the primary causes in most of them…

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Car Capsize Passenger Injured,driver Lucky Escape

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 1

Thrown from a car after it had capsized on the Yass-Canberra Road on Sunday morning, Clifford Sheridan, 21, Orchardist, of The…

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Car Capsize Passenger Injured; Driver's Lucky Escape

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

Thrown from a car after it had capsized on the Yass-Canberra Road this week, Clifford Sheridan (21), orchardist, of…

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Injured Horse R.S.P.C.A. Inspector Takes Action

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

For the third time within a week, Mr. E. R. Bishop. honorary inspector of the R.S.P.C.A. has been called upon to destroy a horse which…

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Ambulance Kept Busy Accident at Burrinjuck

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 1

Mr. D. J. Ross, resident ambulance officer, of Yass, who returned from annual holidays early last week now knows he is back at work. He…

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Accident at Bargo

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

Mabel Daphne Davis, six years of age, was so badly injured when struck by a motor car at Bargo last week that the died…

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Diggers Meet Alter 21 Years an Accident Brings Them Together

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 8

Fanciful fiction introduces from time to time the fantasies of an imaginative mind yet as often as the literary children of…

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The Motor World Notes From the N.r.m.a. Statements After Accidents

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

A warning to motorists not to make statements to the police immediately following on accident in which they have been involved, is…

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Alleged Dangerous Driving Girl Killed And Two Persons Hurt In Motor Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: In the Traffic Court to-day, John Davidson Rangeley, 16, was charged with dangerous driving of a motor cycle at Rose Bay…

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District Court Verdict For Plaintiff Car Accident Claim

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 2

In the District Court last Thursday, Norman Walter Robinson, of Gunning, manager of Birroon for the G. W. Merriman…

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Comedian Killed in a Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 5

HOLLYWOOD, Monday: Herbert Mundin, the English comedian, was killed instantly when the car in which he was riding collided with…

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Loses His License Outcome Of Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 4

A collision between two cars near the Goulburn Showground last night had its sequel at the Goulburn Police Court this morning, when the driver…

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Outcome of Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 4

In the District Court at Yass, Norman Walter Robinson, of Gunning, manager of Birroom for the G. W. Merriman Estate, proceeded against…

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Hit by Car Aged Woman Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 4

Mrs. Catherine Duffy, an elderly woman residing at 110 Lagoon Street, was knocked down by a motor car near her…

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Alleged Assault Aborigine Remanded Constable Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 2

In the Police Court yesterday William Henry Podham, an aborigine, was charged with allegedly assaulting Constable Brown while in…

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