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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Fall From Horse Gordon Brook Stockman Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 4

While mustering cattle at Gordon Brook station yesterday afternoon, James Robertson, a stockman employed at the station, received…

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New York Horror Negro Confesses Crime Drowned Woman in Bath. New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 5

The negro, Major Green, after hours' intermittent questioning to-day, confessed that he had entered the flat of Mrs. Case for the purpose of theft…

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Murder Charge a Dubbo Fatality. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

A charge of murder was to-night preferred against a young man in Dubbo, following the death in the Dubbo Hospital of Ronald Peden (22),…

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Towns Damaged Coalfields Cyclone Several Persons Injured. Cessnock

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

Homes were unroofed, buildings damaged and several people injured when a terrific cyclone, accompanied by torrential rain, struck the mining…

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Tendon Snapped Unusual Accident In Surf At Yamba Wading Through Heavy Se[?]

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 4

A young man named Lew Davis, a resident pf Ulmarra, was rescued from the surf by a Yamba Surf Club patrol in remarkable circumstance…

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Racehorses Injured by Truck Collision At Kempsey Silvius King and Serene Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 3

On Saturday night, Mr. W. L. Crosbie, racehorse owner, was returning from Gladstone races, riding a pony and leading the racehorses Silvius…

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Rescue Drowning Tragedy Averted. Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 4

Owing to the presence of mind and timely action of William ("Bill") Ulrick, jun., a drowning tragedy was averted at the sandspit near the…

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Two Sisters Drowned in River. Boorowa

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 5

With their arms interlocked, the bodies of two sisters, Dorothy Harpley. 11, and Patricia Harpley, 9, were found in the Boorowa River late on…

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Three Men Drowned Tragedy on the Manning. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 4

Three men who were on a fishing trip on the Manning River were drowned late on Monday night when their boat capsized near Wingham. A fourth man,…

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Two Boys Drowned Thrown Out of Canoe. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 5

Two brothers, Edward Bockelberg, 15, and Colin Bockelberg, 13, of Poochera, were thrown out of a canoe and drowned, between Streaky Bay…

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Car and Lorry in Collision

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 4

While returning from Yamba by motor car yesterday morning Dr. W. B. Clipsham, of Grafton, came into collision with a lorry just outside the…

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Passenger Plane Falls Into Sea Girl Killed Two Others Injured Pilot's Heroic Efforts to Save Passengers Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 5

One passenger was killed and the pilot and another passenger were seriously injured when a North Queensland Airways' monoplane crashed…

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Flying Stone Gar Driver Injured Peculiar Accident at Bellingen. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 4

An unusual accident happened on the Thora road, when two motorists were passing in opposite directions. The tyre of one of the cars threw a…

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Injured Pilot Attends Crash Victim's Funeral. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 5

Injured when the Puss Moth plane crashed into the sea near Double Island yesterday, Pilot Patrick Moore temporarily left Cairns Hospital…

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Unusual Riding Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 7

When his horse dropped dead in its tracks, John Burton (11), a scholar attending the Cambooya School, and living in Cambooya, suffered a fracture…

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Duke of Windsor Unhurt in Collision. Vienna

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 5

The Duke of Windsor's car collided with another on an icy road between Enzesfeld Castle and Vienna to-day. Although slightly shaken, the Duke of…

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300 Drowned When Chinese Junk Sinks. Canton

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 5

Panic-stricken passengers jumped madly to their death in swirling waters to- day when a crowded junk struck a submerged rock in dense fog while…

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20 Believed Drowned Finnish Steamer Wrecked. Oslo

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 5

The crew of twenty of the Finnish steamer, Aavonia, which grounded near Kristiansand (Norway), are believed to have perished. Fishermen to-day…

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M.h.r. Injured When Car Hits Pole

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 11

Mr Royland James, M.H.R., of Alexander street, Kurri Kurri, and Mr. Joseph Simpkins, of Railway Parade, Kurri Kurri, were injured at Abermain…

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Strange Car Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 2

How a stone thrown up by the wheel of a passing car put another off the road is told by the Thora correspondent of the "Courier,"…

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