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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Spine Injured Man Falls From Tree Girls Hurt In Collision Cyclist Collides with Truck Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 4

A man received a fractured spine when he fell from a tree, two girls were injured in a collision between a car and a motor bus and a cyclist…

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Girl Injured Discharge of Shotgun

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 3

Believed to have run from behind a briar bush when a shotgun was discharged at a dog at North Goulburn on Tuesday afternoon. Sybil Bailey 12…

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Captain's Evidence Marine Inquiry Caradale-kakariki Collision. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 5

That at the time the steamer Caradale struck and sank the Kakariki she was travelling at about 11 knots was suggested by Captain Thomas White,…

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Lad Drowned Canoe Upsets In River Companions Saved. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 5

Lawrence Forsyth (15), of Naremburn was drowned at Lane Cove River to-day, when a canoe capsized. Henry Davis (45), of Naremburn, was rescued,…

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Dorrigo Lad Hurt Push Bicycle Accident. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 4

A young lad named Max Grace was learning to ride a push bike, when the machine got out of control and crashed into a barn…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 4

On his way to Woodenbong to spend the holiday week-end, John Salotti, 26, of Wooloowin, Brisbane, was the victim of an unusual accident on Saturday…

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Baby Drowned Fell Into Waterhole. Recovering His Hoop. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

A 20 months old baby, Philip Healy only son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Healy, of Nundah, was drowned on Saturday morning in a waterhole about 150 yards…

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Gallant Rescue Broome's Head Beach Youth Unconscious Saved When Almost Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 4

A gallant rescue was effected in the surf at Broome's Head on Friday morning when S. McPherson, of Yamba, plunged into the rough surf…

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Stock Inspector's Accident

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 4

A car driven by the Grafton inspector of Stock, Mr. C. W. Sabine, of Maud street, Grafton, collided with the handrails under the railway viaduct in…

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Fingers Severed Accidents On Ship Mishaps Whilst Loading. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 4

Mr. W. Day, of Coff's Harbor, lost three fingers of his right hand and portion of the fourth member, when a 45ft. pole, which was being loaded…

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Marine Court Caradale-kakariki Collision. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 6

When the Marine Court resumed the inquiry to-day into the collision between the coastal steamers. Caradale and Kakariki, in Hobson's Bay on…

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Motor Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 1

Mr. Jack Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Johnson, of Boambee, met with a motor accident in Sydney last Sunday week from which he was…

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Lost Fingers Accident at Jetty Another Man's Foot Crushed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 3

Mr. W. Day lost three-fingers from his right hand when it tiecame jambed between a heavy pole and the hatch of the steamer…

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Met Accidentally Lord Nuffield and Bradman

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 February 1937 · page 2

When Lord Nuffield, who is a keen cricketing enthusiast, was in Adelaide, a friend suggested that he should meet Don Bradman. "I would like…

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Jockey Injured Accident On Racecourse Fifth in Six Years

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 4

Jockey J. Bradley, of Grafton and Brisbane, has only been riding for six years, but he has had five accidents. Yesterday while riding a maiden…

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Collision Decision on Friday. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 5

Addresses were concluded before the Marine Court inquiry to-day into the cause of the collision between the steamers Kakariki and Caradale on…

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Soot's Troubles Accidental Interference. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 2

The inquiry into the fall of Soot in the Fourteen-Two Handicap, first division, at Kensington on January 27, was concluded to-day, when the…

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Accidental Death Coronial Inquiry How Clarence Woods Was Killed. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 February 1937 · page 1

Mr. F. M. V. Earle, Deputy Coroner, of Grafton, at the Dorrigo Police Court, to-day, inquired into the circumstances surrounding the death of…

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Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 2

Following a collision between a motor car and a bicycle last Wednesday night about 8.30 in Union street, South Lismore, Leonard Brough, of New Bridge…

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Bathurst Carrier Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 2

Serious injuries to the chest were suffered by George William Rowling, of Bathurst, when a large drum of on weighing four cwt., fell on him at the…

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