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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Upper Orara Rider Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 3

Mr. Jock Butterfield had his arm fractured at the elbow and received other injuries when a horse he was riding bolted with him on Mr. W. Mann's…

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Azteg Injured Owner Anxious. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 6

The condition of Aztec, who is suffering from an injury to the near foreleg, is causing the owner considerable anxiety, and Aztec is now under the…

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Married in Hospital Victim Of Meatworks Accident "Pat" Fox and Irene Hopgood Two Years Romance Consummated

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 4

Still dangerously ill, Ernest ("Pat") Fox, victim of the serious accident at Tancred Bros.' meatworks nine days ago, which resulted in the…

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Shooting Fatality Sad Tragedy At Ashby Girl of 12 Loses Life Through Accidental Discharge of Shotgun. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 4

There was a very tragic happening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Forrester, of Ashby, on Saturday afternoon last when a loaded gun in…

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Broken Thigh Kyogle Man Injured. Kyogle

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 6

Harry Woolfe, a middle-aged man, employed at the Veneer Company's factory, suffered a broken thigh when he missed his footing and fell. He was conveyed…

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Struck by Windlass Farm Worker Injured. Casino

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

When he was working at the top of a well on a farm at Tatham, Tom Birmingham was struck below the eye with the handle of a windlass, which inflicted…

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Overcome by Fumes Butter Factory Engineer Injured. Casino

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 6

Overcome by fumes while working on a gas engine at the Dyraaba butter factory, last night, George Little, 35, engine driver, fell a distance of eight…

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£30,000 DAMAGE Trains In Collision Two Carriages Burnt No Lives Lost. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 5

When the brakes of an electric train failed on an incline leading to Croydon station this morning the train rushed through the station and…

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Storm's Toll Two Men Killed Several Persons Injured Cyclone at Mascot. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 5

Widespread storms over the metropolitan and country areas on Saturday, were responsible for two fatalities, and injuries to several persons…

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Mysterious Drowning Body in a Boat. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 2

Mysterious features surround the drowning of an unidentified man in Middle Harbor yesterday. Noticing a rowing boat tilted over at an acute angle, Mr. J. H…

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18 Killed in Train Collision Another Smash in Russia. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 5

Eighteen were killed and nine injured when a passenger train collided head-on with a freight train at Karanstrogonovo station, near Saratov…

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Elderly Grazier Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 4

Cr. George Wiseman, aged about 65, a member of Cockburn Shire Council for many years, and former president, was badly injured when thrown from a horse…

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Two Killed Five Others Injured Motor Car Smash on Armidale Road. Sydney, Wednesday, 2 a.m

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 4

Two persons were killed and five injured when a motor car capsized and overturned on the Armidale road, two miles from Meninghi, late…

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Tweed Boy Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 4

Extensive injuries were received by Leslie Kickbusch, son of Mr. W. Kickbusch, of Tumbulgum, when he was involved in a collision with a car at…

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Head-on Collision

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 6

Two sedan cars finished in this position when they came into head-on collision on the Pacific highway, near Boambee, a mile and a hall Horn Colt's Harbor on Friday last. One was a Ford V8 sedan, driven by Mr. W. Stredwick, the well-known representative of the Atlantic "Union Oil Co., and the other was a big…

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Fell From Roof 12 Feet to Concrete Boy Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 4

Losing his footing on a slanting galvanised iron roof, James Grahame Doust, the 9 years old son of Mrs. Doust, of Prince street, Grafton…

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Trying Ordeal Pinned to Ground by Log Accident in the Bush

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 2

Mr. Albert McGuire went through a trying ordeal in the bush about three miles from Cascade on Monday last. Pinned to the ground by the end of a…

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Horseman Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 4

James Day, 17, suffered a broken leg when the horse he was riding fell at South Lismore. He was admitted to the Lismore Base Hospital…

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Wingham Butcher Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 4

James Bugg, a butcher, was injured at Wingham in an unusual manner when the "pith," with which he had struck a bullock he was slaughtering was…

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Shots Fired Street Brawl Over Bet Two Men Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 February 1935 · page 5

A dispute over a bet is alleged to have been the cause of the firing of a number of shots at Erskineville on Saturday afternoon, resulting in two men receiving…

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