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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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From Everywhere Brothers Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 2

Brothers Drowned. Although la search is being continued by civilians and police, to trace had been found, of the…

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Safety First [?]rying Speeds Cause Accidents

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 3

[?] by the Road Safety Coun[?] of New South Wales) [?] on road accidents in [?]pedestrians have been…

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Cyclists Pranks Cause Accidents

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 29 June 1944 · page 4

When it was reported last week that a schoolboy rode his bicycle along a track on the edge of a 300ft. cliff in Sydney…

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Boy Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 2

Bryant Fulljames 6 of Ids Street, Sans Soci, was drowned when a canoe in which he was riding overturned off Pretty…

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Woman on Fire, Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 3

LONDON: Discovering that her night clothes had caught fire, a Norfolk woman dashed out of her home and threw herself into a…

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Little Things Cause Accidents

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 7

"Oh, I'm too busy--I can't be bothered with little things like that." Like what? Little things which cause road accidents…

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Miner Critically Injured At Captain's Flat Mine

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 3

Thomas Jackson a miner married with one child, was critically injured in the Captain's Flat Mine at 10.30. yesterday morning. While working between No. 6 and…

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Fine Of 10/- As Outcome Of Collision On Braidwood Road

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 1

Sydney Fitzgerald, a lorry driver, employed by the Mulwaree Shire Council, appeared at the Police Court yesterday to answer a charge of failing to give a clear signal of his intention to turn the lorry he was driving to the…

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From Everywhere Railwayman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 July 1944 · page 2

While working at the round-house early this morning, Arthur Ralph, a railway employee, of Deccan Street, was injured while rocking a…

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Hit by -Car Pedestrian Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 July 1944 · page 2

At about 6 o’clock on Tuesday evening last, whilst walking home, Miss Peggy Wenham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Wenham, of…

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Accidental Hanging of Boy

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 July 1944 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest held at Maitland a few days ago into the death of Eric William Ross…

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Soldier Found Drowned In Wollondilly

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 3

On July 3 the body of Pte. John Robert Aitken, 27, a Western Australian born at Kalgoorlie, for some Weeks…

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Accidents at Week-end

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 3

During the week-end several accidents occurred which required treatment by the Goulburn District Ambulance. When she slipped on her back…

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Cyclists' Pranks Cause Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 July 1944 · page 6

When it was reported the ether day that a schoolboy rode his bicycle along a track on the edge of a 300ft cliff in Sydney and fell to…

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Man Injured in Explosion

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY: When an explosion occurred at the L. and G. Engineering works at East Sydney to-day, the proprietor, Mr. C…

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Accident?

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday: It is announced by the Berlin Radio that Storm Troop Group Leader and…

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Benefit Of Doubt In Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 August 1944 · page 2

Appearing at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, charged with failing to drive his car as near as practicable to the left, Arthur Chapple, stationhand at Kimpton, was given the benefit of the doubt by the P.M. and the close…

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From Everywhere Girl Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 2

Patricia Fletcher, 12, daughter of Mr. R H. Fletcher, Wagga, and a boarder at the P.L.C. fell and struck her head on a concrete path…

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Two in HOSPdTAL As a Result of Motor Collision

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 1

Due to a terrific collision which occurred near Redbridige on the Wombat road on Saturday afternoon between a car driven by Mr W H…

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Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 3

Mr Ern Barker had the misfortune to break his collarbone, the result of a fall from his horse, while mustering cattle. We hope that he…

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