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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Horse Bolted Actress Injured--fiance Killed. St. Moritz

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 3

Returning to their hotel in a norse sleigh along the Cresta run, the actress, Peggy Joyce, and the London 'Varsity amateur jockey, Charles…

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Gales in N.Z. North Auckland Flooded :Two Persons Drowned. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 3

Violent gales, accompanied by torrential rain swept the Auckland district yesterday and did not abate until to-day. Floods occurred at North…

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Horseman Injured When Bit Broke

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 4

John Waugh, aged 25, a married man employed at Abington Station, was riding a young horse when the bit broke and he lost control of the animal Waugh…

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Man Drowned Tragedy Near Wollongong. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 4

William John Nicholls (22), of Wollongong, was drowned in peculiar circumstances to day in Fairy Creek, near Wollongong…

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Plane Crashes One Killed; Four Injured Remote Part of N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 5

One person was killed and four injured when an aeroplane, in attempting to land, fell into the surf in the remote West Coast Bay, 30 miles…

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Lorry Accident at Bridge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 4

After the steering gear of his motor lorry broke and crashed into a post at the approach of Coraki bridge. Mr. E. Blackmore carrier, of Woodburn,…

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Girl Drowned When Yacht Capsized Moreton Bay Tragedy. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 6

Becoming jammed under the forward decking of the yacht Astra, which capsized in Moreton Bay during a storm this afternoon, Shirley Margaret…

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Cricketer's Mother Killed in Motor Accident. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 1

Mrs. Florence Fames, 58 years, mother of K. Fames who is a member of the English cricket team at present in Australia, was killed in a motor…

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Cars in Collision Saved By Safety Fence Smash at Swan Creek Bridge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

Considerable damage was sustained by a sedan touring motor car from Toowoomba, Queensland, as the result of a collision which occurred on the…

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Local and General Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 2

Driving to Sydney during the holi days, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Buchanan, of Karangi, collided with another car not far from Newcastle Their car…

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Woodburn Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

Clarence Parker, a lorry driver, of Bonalbo, received a compound fracture of the nose and abrasions to the forehead when a car he was driving…

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Eye Injured When Chopping

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 4

George Lucas, single, an unemployed mechanic, of Lismore, was chopping wood at his camp at Brunswick Heads on Saturday morning when a piece of…

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100 DEAD 300 People Injured In Madrid Air Raid Seventeen Rebel Planes Attack London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 5

One hundred persons were killed and 300 injured in an air raid over Madrid to-day. The raid was the most deadly yet carried out by the…

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Mildura's Drowning Fatalities

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 4

After inquiring into the deaths of Allan Hendry. (23), of Wedderburn, who was drowned in the Murray River at Johnson's. Bend on December…

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Boy Almost Drowned

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 4

Barry Shankley, 9, of Braye street, May field, was dragged unconscious from the water at the new Merewether Ocean Baths on Saturday. He…

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Cut Foot with Axe Sleeper-getter Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 4

Archibald Henry Golvin (19), of Upper Corindi, was admitted to the Grafton District. Hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from a large…

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Accidental Girl's Death at Yea. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1

A finding that Violet Webb. 19, of Yea, who was found dead near her home on December 20, died from', the effects of cerebral haemorrhage, caused…

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Local and General Injured While Ploughing

Daily Examiner · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 4

Mr. A. Blanch, a farmer of Kyogle, received a probable fracture of the ribs on Tuesday morning while ploughing in a paddock near Kyogle…

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Toy Causes Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 3

Master Kevin Best, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Best, of Coramba, injured his foot whilst playing with a toy brought by "Santa Claus." He stood…

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Strike Riot Eighteen Persons Injured. New York

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

A message from Reading (Pennsylvania) states that tear gas was used to quell strike rioting in a knitting mills plant, in which 18 persons, were…

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