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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

770 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 39

Mother and Son Killed in Car Crash Holiday Party Injured Travelling to Yamba Richmond Range Tragedy. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 4

A mother and her infant son were killed, and one of her daughters was seriously injured when a sedan car, driven by Roy Newlands, the woman's…

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Kakariki Sunk Five Men Drowned Off Victorian Coast Collision with Caradale Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 2

The Union Steamship Company's steamer Kakariki (887 tons) sank in three minutes after a collision with the Patrick Line freighter…

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Carrier Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 4

Whilst loading furniture on to a lorry at midday on Saturday, Arthur Roy Lentfer, of 98 Mary street, Grafton, tripped and fell from the vehicle. He…

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Mill Accidents Two Men Injured. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 4

As the result of accidents with milling logs, two men were admitted to the Bellinger River District Hospital, where X-ray examinations in each…

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DROWNING Two Women And Infant in Lake at Narrabeen. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 4

Two women and an infant were found drowned in the lake at Narrabeen today. The bodies of Mrs. F. Simmons (28),…

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Car Hits Post Man Killed, Wife Injured. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 5

Boyd Steer, 30 of Guildford Court, Wickham Terrace city, was killed, and his wife, Vera Steer, was injured when a single-seater motor car crashed into…

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Car Smash a Miraculous Escape REV. F. Boyden Injured

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 1

Rev. F. A. S. Boyden, of UImarra Church of England and well-known in Coffs Harbour, with his wife and daughter, Had a…

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In Surf Bank Officer Drowned Brunswick Tragedy Five Youths Rescued Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 4

Kenneth Harwick Chadwick, 30. relieving teller at the Murwillumbah branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, was drowned in…

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Car Turns Over On Woolgoolga Road Grafton Party Injured Swerved and Skidded. Woolgollga

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 4

Turning completely over when it skidded while the driver was swerving to pass another vehicle, a sedan car with a party of Grafton and…

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Log Accidents

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 2

Two men were admitted to Bellinger District Hospital for x-ray last week, with fractured bones received whilst handling mill logs. Mr. H…

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Car Through Fence Broken Spring Causes Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 4

When the front spring broke and interfered with the steering, a Packard car driven by Mr. B. F. Watson, Mathematics master at the Grafton…

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Electricians Two Injured in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 February 1937 · page 4

Claude Leason, of Kogarah, had his hands badly burned and was rendered unconscious when 415 volts passed through him, when he came into…

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Truck Overturns Armidale Road Accident Grafton Residents Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 4

When a motor truck owned by Mr. Reg. Want, of Grafton, left the road about 27 miles from Armidale on Tuesday afternoon, two of the four…

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Claim for £2500 Car-Cycle Collision Negligence Denied. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 4

Arising out of a collision between a motor car driven by Mrs. Constance Attwill and a bicycle ridden by Harry Lees, at Strathfield, in September,…

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Fatality From Car Fumes

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 11

Behind the steering wheel of his car and with his face buried in his hands, August Olens Thorsen, aged 46 years, cafe proprietor, of Dean street, Albury,…

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Trucks Crash Head-on Collision

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

Talbot's touring picture van and a utility truck came into a head on collision on the old Coast Road, near Nambucca Heads, when coming from…

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Pinned by Log Bullock Driver Injured Accident in Bush. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 4

A. J. O'Neill, 53, bullock driver, of Cougal, was snigging logs in the bush to-day when a log swung round and, slipping, pinned him over a sapling…

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Fishlock Injured Hand Improving. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 5

Fishlock, the English batsman, who broke his left hand while batting against South Australia, had the plaster of paris cast removed from his hand…

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Verdict for £305 Injuries in Collision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 6

The hearing concluded before Acting Justice Owen, and a jury in the Causes Court, to-day of the case in which Harry Rowlands Lees, 17…

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Collision Caradale--kakariki Captains Give Evidence Marine Inquiry Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 4

The inquiry into the collition between the steamers Caradale and Kakariki near the Gellibrand Light last Friday night, resulting in the…

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