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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Gunshot Two Denman Men Injured a Strange Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 7

A party of four master butchers from Sydney called at the premises of Mr. Flaskas, at Denman, to buy fruit, says a Denman message. After the purchase…

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In Lake Two Children Drowned. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 5

Two children, Leslie Hemsworth, 9, and his sister. Alma, aged 4, were drowned yesterday afternoon in a lake at Daylesford. It is thought Alma fell into…

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Painfull Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 4

Lester Capararo, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Capararo, of Gleniffer, suffered very painful injuries last week when a horse trod…

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Death of Mr. Gordon Ballard Victim of Sydney Accident. Palmer's Island

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 4

Much gloom was cast over this district when the sudden death of Mr. Gordon Ballard, of Sydney, was made known. Mr. Ballard was only a young man, and was a…

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Traveller Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 4

Mr. Charles W. Gibson, a well-known commercial traveller on the North Coast, residing at Mosman, was knocked down by a motor car in Spit Road, Mosman, on…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Collision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1931 · page 8

George Martin, fireman, 43, was Killed at Mascot late last night. He was riding a motor cycle when he collided with another motor cycle ridden by Alfred…

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Two Little Boys Drowned in Old Brick Pit. Orange

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 5

Raymond Roy Williams, 5, and William Albert Williams, 6, sons of a local railway employee, were drowned in an old brick pit at East Orange…

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Man Killed Nurse Seriously Injured Motor Car Driver Arretted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 March 1931 · page 5

David Ross-Todd, of King's Road, Vaucluse, was killed instantly and his com[?]nion, Miss Elsie Qunn, 23, a nurse, of Bathurst, seriously injured, when they…

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Petrol Fire Mother and Daughter' Injured Eventful Car Journey. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 5

While on their way by motor car to the bedside of a dying relative at Gunnedah, Mrs. Rita, House and her daughter, Shirley House, 5 years, suffered severe burns…

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Car Driver Charged Watson's Bay Accident Alleged Wanton Driving. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 March 1931 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Richard Jack Johnson, 23, traveller, was charged with having feloniously slain David…

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Accidents That Will Happen

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 7

Lindrum, the great billiard player, lost three teeth the other day because some luggage fell on him from the rack of a railway carriage. Since then someone…

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Heavy Death Roll Chinese Steamer Sinks 350 Believed Drowned. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 5

The revenue cruiser Chuentiao, arrived this morning, bringing 119 survivors from the small Chinese steamer Tachi, belonging to the Tata Company, which…

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Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 March 1931 · page 4

Whilst riding a bicycle yesterday afternoon Bert Quinn, a member of the South Grafton Cycle Club, ran into some barbed wire and sustained injuries which…

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Lorry Overturns One Man Killed Two Others Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1931 · page 5

One man was killed and two injured, one critically, when a motor truck overturned on the Bairnsdale-Stratford road. John Mills died almost immediately…

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Hit Flagpole Wing Tip of Plane Passenger Killed, Pilot Injured Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1931 · page 4

Howard Jolly was killed, and Reginald Robinson, pilot, critically injured, when a 'plane in which they were travelling from Tamworth to…

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Electric Shock Accident on Clarence Brid

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 March 1931 · page 4

Thos. Hopkins, of Pound street, ton, employed on the Clarence [?] works, had a narrow escape from dea[?]Saturday morning…

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Drowned in Dam. Lithgow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1931 · page 6

After swimming 500 yards in a dam at the Small Arms (Factory at Lithgow yesterday, Leonard Murphy, 14, collapsed and was drowned. When he rose to the…

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Carried Injured Mate Two Miles

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1931 · page 4

Injured in the wild mountain country of Glen Oak, Harry Mallon, 26, a rabbit trapper, of Donman street, West Maitland, was carried though the thick bush…

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Peculiar Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1931 · page 2

Driving a motor lorry at Croki, Manning River, one night last week, Mr. E. Lane came upon three horses on the road. Two were on the…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 March 1931 · page 4

While carrying a deck chan on Thursday evening, Mrs. T. Armstrong, of Lismore, tripped, and in falling the collapse of the chair, jammed and completely…

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