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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

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Rifle Bullet Caused Accidental Death Coroner’s Finding

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 4

Accidental death, from a rifle bullet wound was the verdict pronounced by the District Coroner, Mr. D. G. Hughes, after the…

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Local Driver Hurt In Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 6

George Edward Pickles, 61, of Hurst Street, Goulburn, on Sunday suffered cuts to the head when he was involved in a…

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Youth Dies After Road Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 1

Brian Trevithick, 19-year-old Yarra station hand, who was seriously injured in a motor cycle accident on the…

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Five Injured When Car Overturned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 1

Five people were injured on Friday night when a car, driven by James McGann, turned over several times on…

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Inquest Into Marulan Road Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 November 1953 · page 2

Goulburn Deputy Coroner, Mr. G. A. Goodwin, on Thursday found that Robert Golburn, 11, of Walker Av., Miranda, N.S.W., died as a result of injuries accidentally' sustained when a motor car crashed into a tree, two…

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Hand Injured When Jack Collapsed

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 November 1953 · page 2

A man received cuts to the hand when a jack collapsed while he was working on a car in his garage yesterday…

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Archbishop in Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 November 1953 · page 3

At the Anglican Synod to-day, shop Burgmann said a report been received saying that the intimate, Archbishop Mowll, had…

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Marulan Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 November 1953 · page 6

A Marulan motor cyclist was injured when he fell off his machine while taking a corner on the Hume Highway on…

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Schoolboy Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 December 1953 · page 7

A Goulburn High School pupil was badly cut about the head when he fell off his bicycle when going to school…

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Two Accidents On Goulburn Road

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 2 December 1953 · page 1

Two vehicles overturned on the Crookwell-Goulburn Road during the week-end and although considerable…

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Killed Two, Injured 7

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 December 1953 · page 3

ROME, Thursday: Two men are dead and seven others injured as a result of 10 minutes of madness…

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Child Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 3

Three-year-old Wayne Gray, of Victoria Street, lacerated his head when he fell from a fence yesterday afternoon. Goulburn…

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Injured with Hook

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 3

J. Robinson, Farmers and Graziers' employee, of Chantry Street, sustained a lacerated face when a bale hook slipped whilst…

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Drowning Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 7

A New Australia, Vito Capirrso, who is believed to have been an employee on the Snowy River Project, on Saturday was…

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Fireman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 3

H. Reid, railway fireman, of Coromandel Street, was taken to the Base Hospital on Friday and given treatment for a head…

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Passengers Injured in Nightmare Flight

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Monday: A woman is in hospital with head injuries arid an air hostess has two teeth missing following a nightmare journey last night in which a T.A.A. airliner was buffeted by hurricane-force winds…

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26 Dead, 230 Injured in U.s. Tornado

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.): The City of Vicksburg, Mississippi, reeling under the pounding tornado…

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Boys Treated for Minor Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 2

Alister Watson, 13, of the Gill Memorial Home, Goulburn, was taken to the Base Hospital on Friday to receive treatment for…

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Woman Architect Killed in Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 2

The cremation took place in Sydney of Mrs. Malcolm Moir, one Canberra’s most prominent women citizens, who was killed…

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Collision at Intersection

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 December 1953 · page 1

Two cars collided early this morning at the intersection of Bourke and Goldsmith Streets, but nobody was injured and nor…

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