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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

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From Everywhere Child Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 January 1940 · page 2

Falling against a sink at her parent's home in Coramandel street, yesterday, Pauline Frey, a small child, received an incised cut on the forehead…

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Young Man Found Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The body of Rex Woodlands; Harris, 27 who was missing yesterday was recovered this morning in Elkington Park swimming…

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Car Strikes Tree Wirrimah Sisters Injured Another Holiday Accident On Cowra-Blayney Road

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 2

Three young lady residents of Wirrimah--all sisters--were injured when a car in which they were returning from Orange on Sunday…

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Drowned in Cotter River Fourteen Other People Rescued

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 5

At the Cotter River Swimming Pool on Sunday afternoon Wallace Ford (also known as "Runty" Dunn), who had been living with his guardian,…

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Two Sisters Are Injured When They Fall From Bicycle

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 7

Two sisters were slightly injured when they were thrown from a biycle in Goulburn yesterday afternoon after the brake of…

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Saved From Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 3

Thanks to the prompt action of Charles Price, aged 17years, who was swimming in the South Grafton baths, a youth named. Smith; of the same…

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Fatal Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: When two care collided on the Hume Highway last night, Mrs. Myrtle Thefs, resident of Peakhurst, was killed…

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Seven Injured When Trains Collide

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Seven persons were injured when two trains, collided at Wyong rail. way station about 4 p.m…

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Head-on Collision on Jugiong Hill Griffith Residents Seriously Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 4

As the result of a head on collision between a u[?]lily truck and a motor car at midnight on Saturday night last, four Griffith residens were…

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Shark Fatality Second At Brighton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday: A second shark fatality occurred at North Brighton yesterday afternoon only a quarter of a mile from the scene of the…

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Two Men Killed Accidents On The Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 February 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: A man wad killed, and four other, people injured, one critically, when a car crashed into a post on the…

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Injured by Cat Fish

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 6 February 1940 · page 2

Mr. Maurice Fowler, of Grenfell, has been undergoing hospital treatment for blood poisoning, the result of an injury inflicted by a cat fish…

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Car Collision at Canberra

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 4

As the result of a collision between two motor cars on Sunday at about 6.30 p.m. in National Circuit, Canberra, Dr. A. J. H. Wade,…

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Through Bridge Horse and Rider Injured Plank Collapsed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 2

Mr. Bert Stephenson, of North Crookwell, had an unenviable experience one day last week, when the horse he was riding went…

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Boy Drowned Near Dubbo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 2

DUBBO: While bathing with a mate in the Government tank at Eumungeric on Sunday afternoon, Albert Edward Mason, aged 12 years,…

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Taralga Rd. Collision Verdict Given For Plaintiff

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 4

At the Goulburn District Court yesterday Judge Stacy awarded Roy Colefax, Taralga baker, 29 damages-the full amount claimed…

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Accident at the Baths

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 1

Master Bill Whitticker, son of Mr. and W. Whitticker, of the Exchange Hotel, Murrumburrah, met with a nasty and painful accident at the…

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Accident on Bicycle

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 February 1940 · page 2

Miss Nancy Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aldred Davis, and sister to Mrs. jack Davis, De Mestre Street, was riding a bicycle on…

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Leg Severed Railway Fatality At Cowra Foot Became Caught in Points

The Young Chronicle · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 6

When Frederick William Moore, 38, a railway employee, fell under a slowly moving engine in the Cowra railway yard, his right leg was…

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Drowning Fatality Goulburn Boy Loses Life In River

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 4

While attempting to swim across the Wollondilly River 50 yards below Roberts Park pool on Saturday afternoon,…

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