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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Terrible Accident Fingers Torn From Man's Hand at Berrima

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 14 August 1928 · page 2

A shocking accident happened Mr. J. Howells, an employee of the Concrete Constructions Co. at Berrima Cement Works. He was in the act…

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Painful Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 2

While endeavoring to fell a large sapling which fell and hung upon another nearby, Frederick Alan Richard, son of Mrs P L Williams…

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Fatality at Berrima Works Young Man Killed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 September 1928 · page 2

A young man Victor Wilson Bunt (about 20 years of age), fell from the top of sile, welearn, in the course of construction at Berrima, at about…

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Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 October 1928 · page 2

Mittagong, Monday- Mr. and Mrs. William J Leve, of Arncliffe, were travelling by motor cycle and [?] to Verong Creek in…

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Motor Cycle Accident Child Killed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 October 1928 · page 2

On Saturday last, whilst proceeding from Sydney on a visit to Moss Vale on his new motor cycle, accompanied by his wife and child about 15 months old,…

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Pea-Rifle Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 November 1928 · page 4

Irma Cummings Crooker, 21 years of age of Ruby street, Mossman, was accidentally killed on Saturday afternoon at her home by a shot from a…

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Found Drowned

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 November 1928 · page 2

The body of a man named Brasilia Horan, 47 years of age, was found in a dam at the back of "Summerlees," Sutton Forest, on…

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Two Girls Drowned Near Lockhart

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 December 1928 · page 4

May [?]vine, aged 17 years, and Kathleen Credan, aged 19 years were drowned in a dam on the Murrumbidges River, 30 miles from Lockhart,…

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Lorries in Trouble Two Accidents in the Same Week

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 11 December 1928 · page 2
Also in Robertson Mail

Local motor lorries had a bad time last week. On Thursday, a lorry got out of control on Oxley's Hill, turned two…

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Humphries Benefit Well Attended. Injured Player Will Receive, Forty Pounds

Robertson Mail · Friday 21 December 1928 · page 5

The large attendance at the Benefit Social to Ted Humphries, at Burrawang, on Wednesday of last week, showed how ready the local…

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Humphries Benefit Well Attended. Injured Player Will Receive Forty Pounds

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 December 1928 · page 5

The large attendance at the Benefit Social to Ted Humphries, at Burrawang, on Wednesday of last week, showed how ready the local…

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Accident

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 25 December 1928 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Low met with an accident on Friday last, when a motor lorry passed over his foot. He received attention at the District…

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