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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Husband Drowned Queer French Law. Lille

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 January 1933 · page 3

A tearful wife a few days ago identified a corpse recovered from the river as that of her husband, Camille Hulin, and he was buried accordingly. But…

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A Collision Lorry Crashes Into Telegraph Pole. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 January 1933 · page 2

Whilst endeavoring to avoid a collision with a motor car, as it was leaving the rank at Coff's Harbor, on Saturday afternoon, a motor lorry driven by Mr. Laurie…

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Four Injured Smash at Repton Party From Casino. Repton

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 January 1933 · page 1

Four persons were injured in a motor accident at Repton this morning. A motor lorry travelling from Casino to Kempsey mistook the North Beach road…

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Serious Accident a Gunpowder Experiment Grafton Boy Loses Left Eye

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 January 1933 · page 2

Ron Searle, a 13-years-old Grafton High School boy met with a serious accident whilst holidaying with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Searle, in…

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Man Drowned at Harden. Harden

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 2

Sydney Mackenzie, 21, was drowned, and three other persons got into difficulties, while bathing in the Murrumbidgee River yesterday. Mackenzie's…

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Tragic Holiday Boy Drowned at Southport

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 2

Arnold Dick (11), son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Dick, of St. George, was drowned in Loder's Creek, Southport, on Sunday morning. The victim, who was…

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Enmeshed in Reeds Young Man Drowned at Nowra. Nowra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 2

EdAvard James Mitchell, 21, of Marrickville, was drowned in the Shoalhaven River, near Nowra. With a companion, Mitchell was paddling in a canoe, which…

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Woman Cricketer Seriously Injured in Match. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 3

A cricket match between the members of a picnic party at Yarra Bay came to a sudden end to-day when Ivy Nelson, 29. of Newtown, collided with another player…

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Tragic Ending to Picnic at Susan Island Grafton Young Man Drowned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 2

A Salvation Army picnic, held on the picturesque Susan Island, which nestles in the Clarence River opposite Grafton's main thoroughfare,…

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Holiday Smashes Eight Passengers In Car Capsize at Stott's Creek Five Men Injured. Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 3

Eight persons were injured, one seriously, when a car containing eight passengers, seven residents of Brisbane, overturned at Stott's…

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Racing Cyclist Injured. Accident on Bellingen Road. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

Ray Goodwin, a well known local racing cyclist, met with a painful accident to his knee yesterday on the Bellinger road. He was thrown from his machine…

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Collapsed and Was Drowned. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

When he collapsed on a motor launch travelling from Swansea to Coal Point to-day, William Crooks, 39, fell…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning Resuscitation Treatment Succeeds. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

A nine-years-old boy named Carter and a narrow escape from drowning near Mullumbimby, prior to the Christmas holidays. Carter, with others boys of a…

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Rail Trolly Run Down Fatality at Ourimbah Creek. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

While crossing Ourimbah Creek on a railway trolly yesterday Edward Powell was run down by a train travelling to Sydney. He was shockingly mutilated…

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Dragged by Bolting Horse Lad Fatally Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 5

Timothy Kennedy, 12, of Morwell, was fatally injured last night when he was dragged along the road for a considerable distance by a bolting horse…

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Infant Scalded Accident at Maclean. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

When a kettle of boiling water was accidentally upset by an elder child, the three-months-old infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Jones was severely scalded…

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Crushed Fingers Accident at Cloud's Creek. Nymboida

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 4

Mr. Len Webster, driver of Pidcock Bros' Caterpillar tractor, met With a painful accident at Cloud's Creek yesterday. It appears that something went…

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While Swimming Accidentally Drowned Susan Island Picnic Fatality Rescue Attempts Commended

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 4

Sympathy with the relatives and friends of the late Clarence Earle Fisher, whose body was recovered from the Clarence River near the ferry…

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Injured Constable Assisted by Prisoner

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 4

When bringing in a prisoner, John Liddell, from Newcastle Waters to Wave Hill station, states a Darwin message, Constable Robert Reid was injured by his…

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Truck Overturns on a Steep Range Elderly Lady Passenger Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 4

Whilst negotiating a steep and nasty pinch on the range, on the South Grafton side of Dirty Greek (near the 26-mile peg, Woolgoolga road), a Chevrolet motor…

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