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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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In Collision Bicycle And Car Boy Taken to Hospital

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 4

Lindsay Aspinall (14), son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Aspinall, of Wharf street, South Grafton, and an employee of Mr. L. R. Thomas, chemist, of South Grafton,…

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Leg Fractured Man Injured Whilst Felling Tree

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 4

Whilst working, felling timber on the Glen lanes road near Chambigne, Jack Wiliiam Gillett, a young married man, of Little Ryan street. South Grafton,…

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Local and General Foot Injured. Ambulance Statistics

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 4

The following statistics have been furnished by the Grafton District Ambulance Service:-January, 1938: Accidents, 26; transports, 85; minor Whilst playing at school yesterday morning Leo Casson, son of Mrs. V. E. Casson, of 112 Queen street, Grafton, received a lacerated wound to his foot…

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Marine Court Holds Durraween Responsible Collision with Wanganella. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 5

The Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry in a judgment delivered today, fixed the responsibility for the collision between the Interstate liner…

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Ulmarra Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 6

Norman Hardaker, the eight months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Hardaker, of Ulmarra, met with a nasty accident on Wednesday when a…

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Man Killed Four Others Injured Car Over Embankment. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 February 1938 · page 5

A man was killed and two men and two women were injured when a car crashed through a safety fence over the embankment on the Hume…

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Girls Drowned in Yarra River. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 5

Swimming only 100 yards from a crowd of bathers, two little girls were drowned in the Yarra, near Abbotsford, late this afternoon…

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Flood Disaster 21 Drowned in N.Z. CAMP Torrent Like Tidal Wave Bank Breaks in Valley Auckland

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 5

At least 21 persons are believed to have been drowned when floodwaters raging down Sylvan Valley, near the little township of Kopuawhara. 35…

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Toe Severed Lad's Fortitude Cycle Accident at Coff's Harbor. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 4

Voluney Nelson, the nine-year-old con of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Nelson of Coff's Harbor Jetty, is an inmate of the Coff's Harbor District Hospital, as the…

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Boy Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 4

Frederick Braid (15), who is employed in a chemist's shop in Ballina, was admitted to the Ballina District Hospital on Sunday afternoon suffering…

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Bulkhead Collapsed One Killed, Two Injured. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 5

When the bulkhead of the steamer Kooyong collapsed at Carrington to-day A. Close, 38, of Ulverstone, Tasmania, was killed, and E. Windy, 40,…

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Peculiar Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 4

Mr. Noel Harris, of "Oxley," Gilmore, in the Tumut district, was the victim of a peculiar accident recently. Whilst he was lopping willows for his cows the…

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Severed Tendon Compensation Claimed Ulmarra Firewood Cutter "Collapsed After Accident."

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 7

The Workers' Compensation Commission yesterday heard a claim for compensation and medical and hospital expenses by Rupert Allan…

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ACCIDENTAL Woolgoolga Fatality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

The Coroner, Mr. C Walker, J.P., held an inquest at Cods Harbour Courthouse to-day concerning the death in Coffs District Hospital last…

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Nana Glen Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 2

Mr. Reg. Richardson a middle-aged man employed as a sawyer at Nana Gien mill, was injured whilst working at the mill last Wednesday, and was…

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Two Killed Father And Young Son in Motor Accident. Gosford

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Father and son were killed when a touring car, containing eight persons, crashed on the main road to Woy Woy early to-night. The car skidded on the…

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Over Wharf Car's Plunge Into River Well-known Brisbane Man Drowned. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 4

Trapped in the front seat of his motor car, Howard Joseph Eakins, 33. well-known in business and social circles in Brisbane, lost his life early…

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"Unfortunate Accident" Death Of Ivan Ahrens Sequel to Friendly Spar. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 4

At the Coff's Harbor Courthouse today, the Coroner (Mr. C. Walker. J.P.) conducted an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death in…

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Two Drowned Fatalities Near Newcastle. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 4

Sidney Wilsonholme, 24, of Lewisham, Lecturer in Economics at Sydney. University, was drowned at Wyong Creek to-day when he fell from an aquaplane…

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Injured Man Attended By Sir Earle Page Roadside Incident. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 4

While Richard Mavin was lying on the roadside awaiting the arrival of an ambulance to convey him to hospital for treatment for a fractured thigh,…

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