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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

197 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 10

20 Men Injured Building Collapses

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday: Twenty workmen were injured when a wooden framework building being constructed for the American…

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Boy Killed in Shooting Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 June 1942 · page 4

COOTAMUNDRA, Tuesday: Two boys were victims of shooting accidents in this district. One boy was killed…

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Drowned in Creek Fatality At Mummell

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1942 · page 3

Although there are no suspicious circumstances, Goulburn police have been unable to determine how Miss Rebecca Nosworthy, 66, came to meet…

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Goal Riots At Bathurst Three Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 1

BATHURST, Thursday: Prisoners at Bathurst Gaol rioted on Tuesday and Wednesday. injuring the governor. Mr. E. W. Phemister, and two wardens and…

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FELL 25 FEET Youth Injured At Kenmore

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 3

While working on a scaffold plank in a kitchen at the Kenmore Hospital, James Gannon. 18, a painter of 129 Grafton Street, fell 25 feet to a tiled floor and was…

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Accident to Boy

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 4

When entering the Coronation Teatre, Gunning, on Saturday night, Bobby Rudd, aged 10 years, tripped and fell, sustaining a severe disloca…

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Drowned in Trench Kinghorne St. Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 3

Failing into an air raid shelter of the slit-trench type in the backyard of a Kinghorne Street residence this morning, John Raymond Hart, the…

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Airman Drowned Body Not Yet Recovered

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 July 1942 · page 5

A few days ago Rev. Fr. T. Moore,; Diocesan Director of the Propagation of the Faith, Goulburn, and who recently visited Boorowa, received…

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Drowning Case at Mummell Coroner's Finding

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 July 1942 · page 3

Evidence placed before the Deputy-Coroner, Mr. J. C. Walsh, at the Goulburn Court House on Saturday morning enabled him to find that Rebecca…

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Car And Cycle Auburn St. Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 July 1942 · page 3

Minor injuries were suffered by Miss Betty Hindley, of 28 Argyle Street, when the bicycle she was riding was involved in a collision…

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Knocked Down by Tram Mr. Jack Thatcher Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 9 July 1942 · page 2

Mr. John Thatcher (commonly known as “Jacko”), of “The Brook,” Cavan, was injured by being knocked down by a tram car at Rushcutter’s…

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Petrol Tank Explodes Welding Accident At Garage

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 July 1942 · page 3

Severe injuries were sustained yesterday afternoon by Harold Newman, Goulburn garage proprietor, when an empty petrol…

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Many Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 July 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Knocked down by a car. Ernest Gardner, 42, on Saturday night was then dragged about 20 yards by a passing tram…

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Eye Injured Hotelkeeper Hurt

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 July 1942 · page 3

A severe Injury to the left eye was suffered yesterday by Reginald Lewis, of Major's Creek, when he was using a stockwhip…

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Boy Injured Pony Killed In Crash

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 July 1942 · page 3

While riding his pony along Windellama Road early on Saturday afternoon. Keith Charles, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs…

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Butler's Canal Woman Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 21 July 1942 · page 3

LAUNCESTON. Tuesday: A bus containing eight adults adults and three children overturned into Butler's canal after skidding in the snow…

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Fell From Train Fatality Near Towrang

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 21 July 1942 · page 3

When he fell from it train near Towrang station this morning at 7.25, Herbert Thomas Price, aged 40, father of six children, was…

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Drover Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 July 1942 · page 1

A body was recovered from the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga on Sunday and was later identified as that of Charles William Grist, aged…

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Famous Air Ace Paddy Finucane Drowned in English Channel

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 July 1942 · page 4

Apparently realising that be was doomed, Paddy Finucan, famous British air ace, radioed to his comrades. "This is it chaps," as his…

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Mine Accident Man's Finger Jammed

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 July 1942 · page 3

CAPTAIN'S FLAT: M. Davis, one of a train crew working on the 450ft level in the Captain's Flat mine on Wednesday evening, had portion of the second finger…

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