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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

83 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 5

The Baby Was Hurt Motor Collision

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 October 1930 · page 2

Guide Briggs, of the N.R.M.A., got a severe shock on Tuesday. Arriving on the scene of a motor collission in Bong Bong Street he…

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Accidents

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 October 1930 · page 2

George Elliott, 30 years of age, while working at the cement works, Berrima, had his right leg jammed between the buffers of two skiffs…

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Explosion at Quarry Man Buried to Death and his Mate Critically injured Serbian Killed at Ginnenbullen Works

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 October 1930 · page 2

A shocking and terrible accident occurred on Thursday afternoon at the Southern Blue Metal Quarries, Gingenbullen, where it is thought…

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Tragic Accident Knife Slipped, Inflicting Fatal Wound

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 October 1930 · page 2

At the age of 21 years, Arthur Trott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Trott, of Yerranderie, died on Sunday night as the result of a knife…

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Wi[?]gello Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 October 1930 · page 2

Mr. A. G. Miller (district coroner, held an inquiry into the cause of the death of William Murray, who was fatally injured whilst working…

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Quarry Fatality the Coroner's Inquest: Death Accidental

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 November 1930 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. A. Galloway Miller) held an enquiry last week concerning the death of Nikola Vaso Kintera, who was killed at…

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Sad Fatality Young Man Killed by Motor Truck

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 4 November 1930 · page 3

A terrible accident occurred at Loveridge and Hudson's quarry at the Gib, Bowral, on Friday last, by which Sydney Charles Smith, aged…

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Sad Fatality. Young Man Killed by Motor Truck

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

A terrible accident occurred at Loveridge and Hudson's quarry at the Gib, Bowral, on Friday last, by which Sydney Charles Smith, aged 24 years,…

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Hit and Run Young Man Seriously Injured

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 2

Whilst riding motor cycle near the Maltings Bridge, Mittagong, William H. Caldecott, aged 19, of Aylmerton, was run down by a motor…

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Motor Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 8 November 1930 · page 2

On Wednesday evening about 9 o'clock William Hrmilton, also known as Caldicott, aged 18 years, met with a serious accident, near…

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Painful Accident Mr. R Goodfellow Injured

The Southern Mail · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 2

Whilst operating a woolpress on his property at Bullio on Tuesday, Mr. Richard Goodfellow, brother of Mr. James Goodfellow, of Bowral…

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Painful Accident. ML. R. Goodfellow Injured

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 November 1930 · page 2

While operating a woolpress on his property at Bullio on Tuesday, Mr.Richard Goodfellow, brother of Mr. James Goodfellow, of Bowrel, met…

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Killed by Car Sad Fatality at Burradoo

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 25 November 1930 · page 2

If any garage proprietor who fitted a Midza lens to a Chevrolet car will communicate with Bowral Police he will be helping bring to…

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Motor Fatality Accused Remanded to Bowral

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 November 1930 · page 2

On Tuesday last Mr. J. S. Throsby, a young man well known in the Moss Vale district informed the Sydney police that he was the driver of the…

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Motor Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 November 1930 · page 2

The driver of the motorcar car which knocked down Thomas Christopher near Bowral last week, whose death was reported in last issue, is Jas…

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Burradoo Fatality a Further Remand

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 2 December 1930 · page 2

At Bowral Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Aubrey Howie, J.P., James Stout Osborne Throsby was charged that on the 2lst November…

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Motor Fatality a Further Remand

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 2

At Bowral Police Court on Monday, before Mr Aubrey Mowle, J.P., James Start Osborne Thursby was charged that on the 21st November he did…

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Motor Accident Two Brothers Injured

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 23 December 1930 · page 2

A nasty motor accident occurred on Cuttaway Hill, Berrima Road, on Saturday night. Two brothers, Jack and Walter Nesbit were driving a…

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Railway Fatality

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 24 December 1930 · page 2

On Saturday along inspector named James Cummings, of Petersham, was swept from the footplate of the engine of the second Melbourne express and…

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Struck Pothole. Unusual Accident to Mr. Whatman

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1930 · page 3

On Boxing Day, Bernard Robinson, of Tumut, struck a pothole near Government House, Sutton Forest, and was thrown from his motor bike. The severe laceration of the whole face. He is now progressing satisfactorily Mr. Roy Whatman, of Bowral, met with a peculiar accident on Friday last. He was sharpening a circular saw when be slipped and fell across…

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