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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Car Overturned Accident Last Night People Treated at Hospital

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 2

A party of Yass people were involved in an accident about 9 o’clock last night, 12 miles this side of Gunning, when their car…

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Schoolgirls Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 3

A collision between two cycles resulted in two schoolgirls receiving hospital treatment yesterday morning…

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From EVERYWHERE Cyclist Fatally Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 2

L.A.C. Allan Alfred. Hadfield, 23, a member of the R.A.A.F., stationed at Canberra, was fatally injured when he was struck by a…

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Accident at Alpine Four Men Involved All in Hospital

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 3

The series of sharp turns on the road at the top of Alpine, Hume Highway, north of Mittagong, added…

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Death of Airman Accidental on Yass Road No Negligence by Car Driver

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

At the inquest on Wednesday into the death of L.A.C. Albert Allen Hadfield, of Yass, R.A.A.F., stationed at Canberra, who died on…

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Settlement in Motor Collision Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 6

A settlement in favour of Reginald Norman Morton had been reached in the action for damages against John A. Harris…

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Thrown From Horse Visitor Is Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 5

A visitor to Moss Vale from Wollongong is at present in the Berrima District Hospital under-going treatment for severe…

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Blakney Creek Painful Accident Old Man’s Pluck

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 2

An old-age pensioner, Mr. Charles Griffiths, 72, who is very well known in the pastoral industry as a shearer’s cook and who of late…

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Injured Eye

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Because of an injury to his eye, the Victorian batsman, Ken. Meuleman was omitted from the Victorian team, which…

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Motor Fatality Verdict of Accidental Death Truck Wrecked

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 2

The District Coroner, Mr. E. A. Hickey, found that Claude Roberts died from injuries accidentally received…

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Injured in Butcher's Shop

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 2

Mrs. G. Duck, of 22 Grafton Street, suffered a lacerated wound to the left foot when a butcher's cleaver was dropped…

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Man and Boy Drowned Tragedy at Narrandera

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 2

A man and a boy were drowned the Murrumbidgee River, a few miles from Narrandera yesterday afternoon…

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A Tragic Accident Mittagong Youth Killed in Motor Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

A young man, a native of Mittagong, where he had resided with his parents all his life, suffered instantaneous death on Friday evening when, out walking with his mother, he was run down by a motor car…

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Javanese "Minister" Injured Foul Play Suspected

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 3

BATAVIA Wednesday suspicions of foul play were expressed when news was received that Sjarifuddin senior Minister…

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Another Tram Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: Sydney to-day had its 21st tram accident since October last, when three persons were hurt, not seriously, when a…

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ALMOST 1,000 Road Accidents Last Year 400 Killed; 6,255 Injured

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 4

Nearly 10,000 road accidents were reported in N.S.W. last year, representing a 25 per cent. increase on the previous 12 months, according to preliminary…

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95 DROWNED When Steamer Sinks

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Ninety-five passengers were drowned yesterday when a river steamer from Hamburg,…

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Reported All Quiet in Bombay 210 Killed, 1017 Injured as Result of Outbreak

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 3

BOMBAY, Monday: Official casualty figures show 210 killed and 1017 injured since the Navy mutiny and rioting began. The Southern Command communique has announced that the situation in Bombay is now completely under control…

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Fatality at Burrowa

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 2

Careful examination of the circumstances surrounding the death of Thomas Nicholas, of Burrowa, who was found dead…

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Fisherman Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 2

HOBART: An 86-year-old man struggled in vain to save his fishing companion from drowning after a big wave had swept him…

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