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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Goulburn Youths Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

Two Goulburn youths were involved in a collision between a motor cycle and a car in Mebourne over the Christmas…

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Child Drowned Tragedy At Exeter

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

Grim tragedy entered the Hoskins household on Sunday afternoon with the death by drowning of little…

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Barrallier Fatality Youth Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 4

A sad fatality occurred at Barrallier on Tuesday afternoon. December 21, when Raymond Lawrence Smith, 19, of…

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Shooting Accident At Bigga: Youth injured

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

Shortly after sunset on the evening of December 26 a shooting accident occurred at Bigga, which resulted in 19-years-old Hilton…

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Through Glass Window Sailor Is Critically Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: A young sailor was shockingly injured today when an allegedly stolen motorcycle he was riding crashed into a…

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Death From Drowning

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

An inquest into the death of Raymond Laurence Smith, of Moss Vale, was held at Moss Vale Court House on Tuesday…

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Brawl at Hotel Licensee Is Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 4

Police were called to the Hotel Goulburn on Friday. night to stop a brawl. Two men were injured in the…

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Man Fatally Injured Last Night Fall Under Wheel Of Motor Truck

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

A 31-year-old Goulburn man died in the District Hospital last night less than two hours after the front wheel of a motor vehicle had passed over his chest outside his home…

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Car Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 5

Stanley Burtinshaw, leading Australian amateur sprint cyclist about 1914, as fatally injured in a car accident this week. Burtinshaw, a dentist…

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Racial Riot In Durban Many Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 3

DURBAN, Friday: Scores of Africans and Indians were injured, motor cars and buses were damaged by stones and shop…

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Driver Killed Near Marulan Last Night Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 1

A man was killed and two others injured last night when a motor car and lorry collided on the…

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Accidental Death Wee Jasper Plane Crash

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Hickey, District Coroner, conducted an inquiry at the Yass Court House this morning, into the deaths of Wallace Stillard…

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Hotel Burnt Out and Woman Injured Series Of Accidents At The Rand

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 January 1949 · page 7

A hotel was gutted by fire, a woman was critically burned, and a car overturned in a remarkable series of accidents at The Rand, 40 miles from Albury on Saturday night. Thousands of pounds worth…

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Plane Tragedy Accidental Death Crash Near Wee Jasper

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 1

Mr. E. A. Hickey, District Coroner, concluded an inquiry at the Yass Court House last Thursday morning into the deaths of…

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Pinned Under Utility Youth Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

Pinned under a motor utility which overturned near Marulan yesterday, an 18-year-old youth suffered probable…

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Nearly Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 8

A near-drowning accident occurred at Tumult swimming pool, when Allan Lieschke, 20 a farm labourer, from Henty,…

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Man and Wife Die After Collision Second Fatality Near Marulan In Fortnight

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

Nine tons of stone crashed on the car in which a man and his wife were fatally injured, and four others hurt, on the Hume Highway, near Marulan, yesterday…

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Boy of 13 Is Drowned Body Found In 17 Feet Of Water

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: A 13-year-old boy was found in a concrete pool at Granville last night, the body being covered in 17 feet of water…

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Dog Was Cause of Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 3

Mrs. E. Mathews, 3 Ottiwell Street, suffered concussion and a probable fracture of the right arm when a bicycle and…

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Plumber Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 February 1949 · page 7

Suffering with lacerations to his left foot. Mr. J. Vernon, plumber, of 26 Bradley Street, was taken by ambulance to…

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