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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Caught Hair in Drill Young Man Injured at Meatworks

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 4

Bending low over a drilling machine to bore a hole in a piece of metal, George Shaw, aged 20, an employee in the blacksmith's shop of Tancred Bros.'…

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Two Injured Shooting Affray at Waterloo Invalid Pensioner Under Police Surveillance. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 5

Frank Richards, 23, received a rifle bullet in the right hand, and Charles Saunders. 69, invalid pensioner, facial injuries, as a result of an affray at…

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Accidents Cars in Collision. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 6

Two cars met in collision last night on the Woolgoolga road about seven miles out of Coff's Harbor. One, a Studebaker sedan, driven by a mechanic connected…

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Shunters Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 4

While working in the Taree railway yard, Mr. Wm. Kirby, of Pulteney street, Taree, had his hand jammed between an automatic coupling and a drawhook. He…

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Accidents in Mines

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 4

Dangerous, though the occupation of a coal miner is, it is not as dangerous as that of a railway shunter or of a platelayer, for instance, if by coal miner we…

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Seriously Injured Missionary in New Guinea Previously Reported Murdered. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 5

An official message from the Administrator of New Guinea to the Prime Minister's Department reveals that a missionary named Brother Eugene and two…

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Young Girl Escape From Dubbo Gaol Injured and Recaptured. Dubbo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 5

Appealing before the court on Saturday, on a charge of vagrancy, a 17 years old girl was remanded and placed in Dubbo gaol, which was recommissioned three…

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EXPLODED Drum Of Film Three Men Burned Accident at Melbourne. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 5

Henry Howe, 31, Fred Jones, 60, and Leslie Baker, 41, were seriously burned to-day when a drum of film burst into flames at a factory of…

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Drowned in Baths

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 4

Under tragic circumstances, Asthore Amelda O'Donohue, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. O'Donohue, of Griffin lane, was drowned at Tamworth baths…

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Pilot Killed First Autogyro Fatality in U.K. LONDON

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

The first autogyro fatality in Britain occurred to-day. While Flying Officer L. W. Oliver was making his first solo flight he crashed at Salisbury from 2000…

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Explosion in Mine Ten Killed; Many Injured. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

A message from Shenandoah (Pennsylvania) stales that ten anthracite coal miners were killed in an explosion, a thousand feet underground, apparently…

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Fell From Train Truck Railway Employee Injured at Kyarran Siding

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 4

Unloading material from a departmental truck at the Kyarran railway siding about 10 miles from Grafton, Henry James Hopkin, a railway employee,…

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Cricketer in Court Jupp on Manslaughter Charge Sequel to Motor Collision London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 3

V. W. Jun[?] the Northants cricketer, who on Saturday was charged with the manslaughter of Denis Moysey, 19, one of two vouths who were on a motor cycle…

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Cricketer Injured. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

Walter Keeton, the well known cricketer, was seriously injured in a road accident to-day seven of the ribs being broken and a lung injured…

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Accidents

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 2

Two accidents occurred during the week. Mr. Pat McGavigan accidentally cut his in-step with an axe. Sister Passmore, of the B.N.A.,…

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Lorry Capsizes Accident on Coff's—woolgoolga Road

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

As a result of the tie-rod breaking, a motor lorry, driven by J. Cattenach, of Grafton, capsised on the Woolgoolga road about nine milesfrom Coff's Harbor, on…

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Bellinger River Car Accident. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 7

Whilst returning home at 3 a.m. from the south, to complete their motor tour on the Northern. Rivers, Rev. B. R. and Mrs. Palmer, of Bellingen, had the…

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A Freak Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 4

Add to the record of freak accidents an unintentional Caesarian operation performed on a cow at Newport (U.S.A.) by a freight train. The cow was killed…

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Woman Nearly Drowned—husband Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 7

Whilst bathing in Currumbin Creek in the vicinity of its outlet to the sea, on Tuesday morning, Mrs. Annie Howitt (58), of Highgate Hill, South Brisbane…

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Kicked by Horse Man's Hip Injured Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 4

Mr. R. McLeay, of Palmer's Channel, was severely kicked by a horse above the hip, on Friday morning, necessitating immediate medical attention…

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