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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Motor-cyclists Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 April 1950 · page 3

A motor-cyclist who hit a pile in the road, caused by the recent wet weather, was admitted to the District Hospital, suffering from…

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Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 1

A car and a lorry collided at the intersection of Union and Lagoon Streets yesterday. The car driven by Ms. Bobart…

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Fatal Accidents At Week-end

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Three people died and 23 were injured in traffic accidents in Sydney and other parts of New South Wales…

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Star Bloom Badly Injured In Easter Handicap

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 3

Promising galloper, Star Bloom, owned by well-known Crookwell sportsmen, Perce and Sid Kensit, of Narrawa, was…

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Migrant Boy Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 4

The body of Aleksander Hrubski, 6½-year-old New Australian, was found in a pit at the Parkes Holdings Centre's sewerage…

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Star Bloom Badly Injured in Easter Handicap

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 1

Promising galloper, Star Bloom, owned by well-known district sportsmen, Perce and Sid Kensit, of Narrawa, was…

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Man Seriously Injured Car Swerved to Avoid Bullock

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 2

The driver of a car was serious injured when his car swerved to avoid a bullock and turned over at Bookham on Friday morning…

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Three Injured in Car Crash

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 5

Three people were injured last night when a car skidded across the Hume Highway into a fence, about six…

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Planes in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 1

When a Vampire jet plane and a Gipsy Moth plane collided while taxi-ing across the Bankstown aerodrome after landing…

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Accident Half a Mile Down

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 4

NEWCASTLE: Four, miners were injured, one seriously, when a skip broke loose half a mile below the surface of the Pacific…

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Gunning News Near Accident In Yass Street

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 3

Sergt V. Daley's introduction to Gunning was almost a very unfortunate one. On Monday, Sergt. Daley was…

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Accident Policies for Councillors?

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 1

Goodradigbee Shire Council will inquire into the possibility of providing personal accident benefits for shire councillors who may…

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Farmer Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 6

BRISBANE: After falling from a tree a farmer lay in agony for four hours before his cries for assistance attacted a woman…

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Girl Accidentally Killed When Car Turned Over at Shell Depot “I Was Going Too Fast to Make the Turn” Driver’s Alleged Reply to Police Sergt

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 1

At an inquest at the Court House on Thursday afternoon the Coroner found that Jean Mary Styles died from injuries accidentally received on April 15 last when a car in which she was a passenger left the road…

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Train Passenger Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 1

A Canberra schoolboy, travelling by train last night, had his arm out of a window and was struck by a protruding object on a passing train. He was John Brooker , 16 of Bremer Street, Griffith, Canberra…

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Six Injured While on Motor Cycles

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 5

Eight people were injured in traffic accidents in and around Goulburn at the week-end. Six of them were injurd on motor cyces…

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Two Hurt in Railway Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

Two railway employees were injured in accidents at Goulburn yesterday. They were George Hilton…

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Boy Injured in Fall From Bicycle

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

Master Peter Holmes, aged 7 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Holmes, of Frogmore met with a painful accident on Tuesday…

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Cootamudra Man Killed by Train Fatal Accident at Harden

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 1

A 23-year-old railway fireman was killed instantly on Saturday night when he was struck by the Cowra Mail…

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Motor Cyclist Hurt in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 May 1950 · page 5

A man was injured when a car collided with the motorcycle he was riding, at Yarra on Saturday…

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