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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

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Week-end Accidents Casualties In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 1 January 1940 · page 2

Ambulance and medical attention was required for several Goulburn people who were involved in minor accidents during…

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From Everywhere Fewer Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 4

The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, pointed out yesterday that preliminary reports showed ai diminution inution of. road accident's for the…

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Five People Injured When Taxi Crosses Kerb

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Five people were seriously injured when a taxi careered across crowded Swanston Street…

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Talkalot Destroyed Mare Meets With Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Talkalot broke her off hind pastern while working at Victoria Park yesterday morning and was subsequently…

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Fatal Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1

COWRA, Wednesday: Ernest G. Heinrich 55, of Young, was killed when a car, driven by his son Cyril 23, overturned near…

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Ambulance Cases Holiday Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 8

Mrs. G. Taylor, of Mittagong, who was a passenger in a car driven by her husband on Saturday night, received injuries in a remarkable…

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Unusual Accident Air-Lock Worker In Hospital

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday: An air lock worker who collapsed after being released from an underwater water caisson at Glebe Island…

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Swimmer Injured Casualty At City Baths

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 5

While swimming under water at the Municipal Baths yesterday afternoon a 13-year-old schoolboy narrowly escaped…

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Husband and Wife Fatally Injured Son in Serious Condition Shocking New Year's Day Tragedy Car Capsizes on Cowra-Blayney Road

The Young Chronicle · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 2

A wave of horror swept over Young when, with many residents still engaged in New Year celebrations, the news flew round on Monday evening that three members of the well-known and well-liked Heinrich…

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Youth Found Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 January 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Allan Carson Taylor, 16 Shipham Street, Concord. was found yesterday at the bottom of Dee Why [?]ek pool…

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Mill Worker Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 January 1940 · page 4

While working at the Bradfordville Woollen Mills on Friday, Charles Cumberland was accidentally hit on the head with a…

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Unusual Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 January 1940 · page 1

Don Gamble (10), of Armidale, was admitted to the Armidale and New England District Hospital Suffering from severe abdominal…

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M. Daladier Injured Foot Broken In Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 5

PARIS, Monday: It is officially announced that the Premier, M. Daladier, has fractured his foot in an accident…

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Accident Hoodoo

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 2

Formerly of Junee, and now in business at Orange in the cycling trade; Mr. Les Lyons is in the Orange Hospital suffering from a compound…

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New Year's Bad Start More Accidents Than First Thought

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1

As report are being received by, the Department of Road Transport from all parts of the State," it is becoming more and…

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Heinrich Inquest "Accidental Deaths"

The Young Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

At the conclusion of the inquest at Cowra Court House this afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Ernst…

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154 Major Accidents Young Ambulance's Activities

The Young Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 3

For the 12 months ended December 31, the Young Ambulance received calls to 154 accidents and also rendered first-aid in the case…

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Three Drowned at Week-end

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday: Two youths and a man were drowned at bathing resorts near Sydney during the week-end. Their bodies were…

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Four Drowned When Yacht Is Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Monday: When the large yacht Ngahuia was wrecked at Matakana Island, near Tauranga, in a gale early yesterday morning, only…

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Death of Accident Victim

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

Lionel John Branson, 25, who was seriously injured on Monday last when his motor cycle collided with a lorry at Moss…

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