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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

83 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 5

Three Men Injured Explosion at Gingen-bullen Quarries. Two Cases Critical

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 2

Three Serbian employed at Gingenbullen Quarries were badly injured when a premature explosion occurred on Thursday afternoon. The…

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Accident At Show Gordon Smith Injured and Horse Killed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 March 1930 · page 2

A serious accident marred some-what the second day of Robertson show. Gordon Smith was riding his…

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Painful Accident Impaled on Hook of Pack Saddle

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 6

Mr. A. Sealbright, of Yerranderie, received shocking injuries to his leg when his pack horse reared and he became impaled on one of…

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Head Struck Tree Girl Fatally Injured

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 3

Swept from the saddle when tho horse she was riding swerved suddenly, Miss Ethel Chalker (15), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Chulker, of…

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Motor Fatality Well-known Bowral Resident Dies of Injuries

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

Mr. C. W. Hardinge, a widely-known and popular resident of Bowral, died in Auburn Hospital on Sunday as the result of a motor accident…

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An Injured Foot

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

An accident happened near Tallong on Monday. Whilst bringing a steam navvy from Maralan works to the Blue Metal Quarries, S. Fleeton…

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Sad Motor Fatality Death From Injuries

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 2

The death occurred on Sunday night in Auburn district hospital as the result of injuries received in a motor accident on Liverpool road,…

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More Accidents Poisoned Leg

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. Thurling (22), of Hill Top, while riding a horse on Saturday last, fell and received abrasions and contusions to his knee. He treated the…

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Motor Fatality Mr. George Gilbert Killed

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 3

Sympathy is expressed throughout the Burrawang district with Mr. J. H. Gilbert in the tragic loss of his son George, who was killed in a motor…

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Push Bikes Collide Man Seriously Injured

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 3

As a result of a collision between two push bike, Mr. William Fisher, head baker at Smith and Co.'s, Bowral, received a diamond fracture of…

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Accidents

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 5 April 1930 · page 3

Mrs. T. Friend, jun, of Robertson road, was thrown out of a sulky in the main street and was taken to the district hospital suffering with concussion…

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Car Fatality. Coroner's Finding

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 9 April 1930 · page 4

The district coroner, Mr. C. W. Craig, held an enquiry at the Kiama Police Court, last week into the death of George Parkinson Gilbert,…

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That Car Fatality Coroner Says Driver Was Not Drunk

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 4

The motor accident in which Mr. George Gilbert received fatal injuries was investigated by the District Coroner at Kiama last week…

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Motor Crash Mr. Penfold Hyland Injured

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 22 April 1930 · page 3

On Friday last as Mr. Penfold Hyland, of Bowral, was driving to Burradoo, his Studebaker car collided with a Whippet car being driven by…

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Motor Crash. Mr. Tenfold Hyland Injured

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 23 April 1930 · page 2

On Friday last as Mr. Penfold Hyland, of Bowral, was driving to Burradoo, his Studebaker car collided with a whippet car being driven by…

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Motor Accidents Death Trap Provides Six Casualties

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 6 May 1930 · page 2

Mr. W. Briggs, of the Bowral service station of the N.R.M.A., has had a very busy time lately in salvaging cars which have come to grief within…

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A Dangerous Bend. Six Accidents in About a Week

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 May 1930 · page 2

Mr. Alvin Taylor, of Alvin Taylor, Ltd., Wentworth-avenue, Sydney, had a remarkable escape from death on Saturday night, when his…

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Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 7 May 1930 · page 2

Whilst teturning from Wellington on Tuesday night last, Mr. F. Parry, Moss Vale, met with an incident near the Cross…

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Serious Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 May 1930 · page 2

On Sunday abbot 5.30 p.m. an accident occurred near Cross Roads. Mrs. Hannan, we understand, was proceeding from Bowral to Goulburn…

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Lucky Winners. Meet by Accident. £10,000 in Prizes

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 4 June 1930 · page 4

Surely this life is one of coincidence! Just before last Christmas a woman In the country won £1000 prize in the Deaf and Blind Kiddies'…

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