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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Surfing Tragedy at Bondi Pour Drowned 35 Persons Treated 200 Surfers Carried Out Heroic Work by Lifesavers Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 5

In the worst surf tragedy oh record, four persons were drowned and 25 were treated for shock and immersion when 200 bathers were…

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Fingers Severed Accident at Uki. Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 4

Jack Whitby, of Uki, had portions of four fingers of his right hand severed when operating a power-driven mincing machine at Uki…

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Traffic Accidents 311 Deaths in Melbourne Last Year

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 February 1938 · page 6

Despite the introduction of a new traffic code to minimise traffic accidents, 311 persons died in Melbourne last year from injuries received in…

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Kicked in Face Boy Injured Whilst Chasing Horse

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 4

Frank Eric Shephard (14), son of Mr. and Mrs. G. .H. Shephard, of Nana Glen, suffered a lacerated arid contused wound to the face when a…

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Unusual Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 3

Mr. Oliver Hunter, of The Pocket, Billinudgel, was injured in an unusual manner while crossing a paddock on a horse slide loaded with…

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Strange Double Fatality. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 5

The rider of a motor cycle which knocked down and killed a woman in Auckland to-day was hurled from the machine under an approaching…

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Farmers Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4

Michael Croke, a farmer, of Wood-view, Tenterfield road, near Casino, received a severe injury to the lower part of the abdomen when a plough handle…

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Boy Drowned in Fishery Creek

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 4

Peter Wilson Watson, 6, son of Mr. C. L. Watson, of Dagworth, was drowned in Fishery Creek, near West Maitland on Sunday afternoon. He was…

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COLLISION On Jetty Road

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 2

A big motor lorry laden wi[?] and a motor car collided [?] Road last night. Damage w[?] to the car, and delay occu[?]…

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Injured in Sailing Boat

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 4

While making ready his sailing boat, Mystery III., at the Jerseyville Regatta on Saturday week last, the veteran, Mr. Harry Croad, met with a mishap,…

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Hit-run Driver Man Injured at Bundaberg

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 9

Suffering from extensive injuries to the head and face, Roy Fuller (21), a visitor to Bundaberg from Ingham, was admitted to the Bundaberg General…

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Woman Drowned No Alarm Given "Incredible Conduct." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 5

That he had made no attempt to save a woman who had fallen into the Harbor, although she was only four feet away from him, because he was…

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Traffic Education As Preventive of Accidents Police Commissioner's Plan Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 4

Novel means of impressing upon people the necessity of obeying the traffic regulations in their entirety are to be employed by the police…

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COLLISION Lorry And Motor Cycle Side-car Passenger Injured. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4

A collision between a motor cycle, ridden by Mr. R. Austin, of Maclean, and a motor lorry, driven by Mr. Sutherland, of Tullymorgan, took…

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Injured by Knife

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4

Miss Doreen Henderson of Little Prince street, Grafton, suffered injuries to the left hand, when the knife she was using at her home slipped…

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Car Capsized Four Persons Injured Accident Near Tabulam. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4

When a car failed to take a bend one mile from Tabulam this morning and capsized, four persons were injured. They were the driver, George…

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Collision Sequel Motorist Sent to Gaol. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4

A sequel to a fatal head-on collision between a motor cycle and a motor car, at Welshpool, near Perth, on November 22, was the sentencing of the…

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Man Killed Two Seriously Injured Motor Truck Overturns. Wagga

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 6

Herbert Jones, 22, was killed, and Reginald Jones, 20, and William Clark were seriously injured when a motor truck overturned on the Hume highway…

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Diver Injured Hit Submerged Log Whilst Swimming at McPHERSON'S CROSSING

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 4

When he struck a submerged log, whilst swimming at McPherson's Crossing, yesterday morning, Ralph Arthur White (17), of 148 Bacon…

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Tweed Heads Man Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 4

Victim of an alleged assault outside a dance hall at Burleigh Heads on Friday night, Harold Caden, 28, married, of Tweed Heads, was transported to a…

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