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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

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Floods in China. Towns Wiped Out. Thousands Drowned

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 January 1922 · page 2

[?] NEW YORK, Saturday Night. [?] Episcopal Department of Mis[?]has received a cable from China [?] that the Yellow River has…

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Jockeys Injured and Horse Killed. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 January 1922 · page 1

Soon after the start of the Maiden Plate at Moonee Valley Cramond and Gulyarri came down. W. Duncan, who rode Crammond and J. Killorn on…

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Drowning Fatality Murwillumbah Man's End. Falls Out of Sailing Boat

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 1

A fatal accident occurred near Chinderah on Sunday morning when Frank Hardwick, a resident of Murwillumbah, met his death through falling out of…

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Queensland Drowning Cases. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 4

David Thorpe (52) a poultry farmer at Oxley, was crossing a washout on the Oxley road in a cart on Saturday morning, when the vehicle capsized. Thorpe…

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Jockey Injured

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 3

Jockey Rhodes met with a serious accident at the G.P.R. Club's meeting at Muskvalley yesterday, through his mount. My Nute, falling in the First…

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Motor Capsizes. Mother and Daughter Killed. Three Others Injured. Melbourne

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 2

Two persons were killed and three injured when a motor car, containing a party of holiday-makers, overturned on the road near Healesville…

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Rough Seas in the Harbor. Three Men Nearly Drowned. Cricket and Races Postponed Sydney, Monday Evening

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 2

Giant seas are battering the heads of Port Jackson, driven by the rain laden wind of a-mile-a-minute force. The Manly ferry boats are making…

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The Coastal Gale. Worst Since 1912. Minor Shipping Mishaps. Man and Boy Injured. Sydney. Monday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 January 1922 · page 2

The weather now raging along the New South Wales coast is said to be the worst since 1912 for the heaviness of the sea. The beaches were too…

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South Murwillumbah Drowning

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1922 · page 2

The Murwillumbah police believe that the name of the man whose body was found floating in the river at South Murwillumbah on Friday last…

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Railway Workers Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1922 · page 4

Two railway workers from Lowanna named Doyle qnd Johnson were brought to the Coff's Harbor District Hospital on Sunday morning last, sufferisg from severe…

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Young Man Drowned. While Crossing Macquarie River. Sydney, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 January 1922 · page 3

A Narromine message to-day, says:-- A young man, Norman Budd, a native of New Zealand, and employed at Gollyburt…

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Bomb Thrown in a Market Place. Fifty People Injured. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1922 · page 5

A bomb was thrown in the crowded market place at Dinkelsbuhl, fifty persons being wounded, twenty seriously. By a miraculous chance none were killed…

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Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1922 · page 3

David Johnson [?] Joseph Doyle. who were seriously hurt by a [?] [?] on the Dorrigo Railway section, are inmates of the Coffs Hospital…

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A Publican Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 5

Early this morning a fire destroyed Cavanagh's Hotel at Pallamallawa, near Moree In an attempt to obtain some papers from a room at the rear of the…

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A Boy Drowned. Three Others Rescued. Auckland

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 3

Four boys one of whom was a cripple, were playing un a punt at Point Chevalier Beach, using the cripple's crutches for oars. One boy was…

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Killed Instantly. Medical Student in Motor Collision. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 3

Samuel Asher, 21, a medical student, was killed instantly in a collision between a motor car and a jinker in Macquarie-street last night…

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QUEENSLAND Flood Waters Subsiding. Two Persons Drowned. Land Settlement Scheme. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 5

The Fitzroy River, at Rockhampton, after reaching a neight of 21ft. on the flood gauge has now commenced to fall and all danger of the city being inundated…

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Narrow Escape. Motor Car Overturns. Occupants Slightly Injured. Sydney, Wednesday Evening

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1922 · page 2

A Bathurst message to-day says: A party of motorists, comprising Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and son, of Culcairn, and Mr. A. H. Bryan, of Bathurst, had…

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Surfing Fatality. Strong Swimmer Drowned. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 3

John Rowe, 26, a member of the Newcastle Life Saving Club, was carried out in the surf at Newcastle yesterday and was drowned…

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Drowned in Baths. Lane Cove Fatality. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1922 · page 2

While swimming in Greenwich Baths to-day, Guy Herbert Scarr. aged 30, of Ridge street. Longueville (Lane Cove). was drowned…

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