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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Dagger Used Man Seriously Injured Two Men Arrested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 3

William Kaile, a chocolate wheel proprietor, and John Kelly, lesses of Maroubra surf sheds, both of Maroubra, who were apparently followed on leaving their…

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Car Hits Post. Well-known Business Man Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 3

William McMurtrie, 44, of the [?]se the well-known boot manufacturer, was seriously injured when the car in which he was riding crashed into telegraph…

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Body on Ledge Mates Couldn't Reach It Shooting Accident in Goulburn District. Goulburn

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 3

While climbing a cliff during a rabbit shooting expedition in the rough Shoalh-haven country a youth named Burnett was shot dead to-day when his gun, which he…

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Two Dead Shocking Motor Accident Run Down by Car While Walking Along Road

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 3

A shocking motor accident, occurred on the road a few miles on the Macksville side of Frederickton at midnight on Thursday last. Two men are…

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Melbourne, Accidents One Killed, Ten Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

One man was Killed and ten persons injured in motor accidents in the suburbs early this morning…

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Boy Drowned Two Others Missing. Perth

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

Lloyd Harding, 11, was drowned and two other boys are believed to have lost their lives when a boat in which they were engaged in crab catching on the…

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Two Killed Cars in Collision. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

Two persons were killed when two cars collided at Prahran to-day. One of . the victims was a seven- year- old girl…

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Fell Off Ferry Youth Drowned at Stockton. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

A youth named Sydney Nicholls fell from Stockton ferry this afternoon and was drowned. A strong current swept Nicholls away…

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Melbourne Express Hit Empty Carriages Collision at Seymour. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

Passengers on the [?] p. m. [?] Melbourne express to Sydney were much alarmed when the engine struck a rake of empty carriages being shunted at…

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Telegrams Driver and Fireman Injured. LlTHGOW

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

The driver and fireman of a locomotive were injured when it was derailed near Mount Victoria yesterday. The fireman, A. McCartney, was buried up to his waist…

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Five Injured Car and Ambulance Collide. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

Five persons were injured in a collision between a motor car and ambulance wag-gon at Parramatta last night. Edwin Waggoner, 45, of…

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Appalling Disaster Fire Panic At Paisley Picture Theatre 69 Children Dead and 37 INJURED Suffocated By Poisonous Fumes Bodies Piled Up in Gangways Many Crushed to Death—none Burned London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 5

Sixty-nine children lost their lives and 37 were injured in the worst cinema disaster in the history of Great Britain. The scene of the catastrophe was at the Glen cinema, Paisley, six miles from Glasgow…

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Two Killed in Collision Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 5

A motor collision near Dunedin resulted in the death of both drivers, David Wilkins and David Edwards, and serious injuries to two others…

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Just in Time a Plucky Rescue Ferryman Saves Boy From Drowning

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 4

A timely and plucky rescue was effected by Mr. Dougall Mackie near the South Grafton ferry wharf a few days ago, when, fully clad, he dived into 12 feet…

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Jockey Injured in Car Smash. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 3

Alfred Stanton, the well-known pony jockey, received severe head injuries to-day when his car crashed into a garden plot in a road at Kensington…

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Two Injured by Hit and Run Driver. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 January 1930 · page 5

Struck with great force by a car winch did not stop, Norman Stapleton, 24, and William Aitken, 48, were hurled from their motor car at Wollongong late last…

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Two Men Injured Car Accident on Prince's Highway. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 5

A single-seater car skidded and somersaulted on Prince's Highway, three miles from Moruya yesterday. The occupants, Mr. E. S. Duckett and…

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Fell Fifty Feet Motor Bus Wrecked--driver Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

A motor bus, driven by Alec McIntosh, fell 50 feet over a cliff near Woy Woy this afternoon and was wreeked. McIntosh was seriously injured. Fortunately there…

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Tree Falls on Man Accident at Upper Sherwood Creek

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1930 · page 4

At about midday yesterday a tree fell on a man named Donald Simpson, who was engaged in felling timber for Mr. Stephen Simmons, of Upper Sherwood…

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Telegrams Youth Drowned. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 2

Richard Thomas Grant, 17, while bathing with his sister and father at Carrum was caught in the undertow and drowned…

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