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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Child's Death Five Months After Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 July 1947 · page 5

William John, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brownlee, of Goulburn, who was severely scalded in…

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Sequel to Accident District Man's Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 July 1947 · page 5

A Braidwood district resident, who was seriously injured in a motor accident in April, died at the Goulburn…

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Bigga Grazier Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 4

A Bigga grazier, who severed an artery in the head on his property yesterday afternoon. was admitted to the Goulburn…

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650 Drowned When the Ship Capsized in Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 July 1947 · page 5

BOMBAY, Friday: More than 650 people are estimated to have been drowned when the Indian Co-Operative Navigation and Trading Company's 406 tons steamship Ramd as, with about 700 passengers and crew on board sank off the coast of Kolaba, south of Bombay yesterday…

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Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 3

Mr. W. J. Larkham, of 51 Lansdowne Street, an employee at Kenmore, fractured his left collarbone when his bicycle…

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Child Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 5

When he fell on a concrete pavement on Saturday, John Kennedy, aged 3, of Wheatley Avenue, injured his forehead…

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Hockey Player Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 3

Miss N. Ison, of 333 Auburn Street, received an injury to the cheekbone when she was shruck by a hockey stick at Kenmore…

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Road Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 5

Two persons were killed and at least 17 injured in road accidents in New South Wales at the weekend…

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Motor Car Overturns Hume Highway Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 1

When a small car overturned on Wednesday afternoon, the driver had a narrow escape frrom serious…

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Fine of £20 Imposed on Van Driver Three Vehicles Damaged and Five Persons Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 1

A Sydney transport driver who was involved in an accident in which three vehicles were extensively damaged and five persons injured was fined £20 at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday when convicted on a…

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Car and Truck in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 4

A car was extensively damaged in a collision in Victoria Street yesterday. The car which was driven by…

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Grazier Injured By Log

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 1

Mr J. W. Burbidge, grazier, of "Burnafahes," Bigga, suffered injuries to head and right shoulder when a log…

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Two Men Hurt Bradfordville Road Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 5

Two men were admitted to hospital as a result of a collision between a bicycle and a motor cycle at…

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Baby Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 2

Rita Shirley Povey, 5½-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Povey, of Gurrabeal, between Cooma and Bredbo, was…

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Boy Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 1

An eight-year-old boy's foot was penetrated by a garden fork yesterday morning. The lad, Wiliam O'Brien, of 22 Chatsbury…

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Woman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 5

Mrs. R. Hawkins, of May St., East Goulburn, was knocked down by a motor cycle near the aerodrome on Sunday morning…

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Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 3

A man was injured whilst playing football at Loseby Park, Bowral, on Sunday, afternoon. He is Peter Ready, aged 22, of Port…

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Three Injured Car Hits Tree Near Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 July 1947 · page 5

Three people were injured when a car skidded off a snow-clad road near Crookwell yesterday and…

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Binda Road Smash,Three People Injured Local Taxi Crashes Into Tree Skidded On Greasy Patch Of Road

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 July 1947 · page 1

Nicholson Bros, seven-seater Studebaker taxi with three passengers aboard left the road, after skidding on a greasy patch, and crashed into a tree on the right-hand side of the Binda…

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Crookwell Man In Mysterious Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 30 July 1947 · page 1

Detective E. Noble, of the Goulburn Police, has been making enquiries into the circumstances surrounding…

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