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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Collision at Sea Finding of Marine Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 5

Although it found the charge of "failure of duties in matters of navigation" against Captain Samuel Henry Mills, of the trawler Durraween, had…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 4

Joseph Vlismas (34) was injured when working on his banana plantation at Main Arm, near Mullumbimby. He was straining a wire for a flying…

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Fell From Tree Forestry Worker Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 4

Robert Oscar Reison, 38, a single man, employed on forestry work at Banyabba, fell from a tree yesterday and suffered a dislocation of the right…

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Did Not Realise He Was Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 4

Falling from a railway lorry at the intersection of Mundy and Sloane streets, Goulburn, on Friday, Add Robert Martzen, a railway employee,…

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Two Injured Plane Crash in Victoria. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 5

When a Moth training plane belonging to A.N.A., crashed near Somerton to-day, two men sustained injuries, and the machine was badly damaged…

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DAMAGED Aero Club Plane Landing at Lismore Occupants Not Injured. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 6

Two occupants of the Northern New South Wales Aero Club training plane were lucky to escape serious injury this morning when the machine…

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Damages Awarded Leg Lost In Tram Accident Transport Commission Sued. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 4

A case in which a woman claimed damages arising from an accident, and in which her husband also claimed damages for medical expenses incurred…

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Fell on Footpath Farm Worker Injured. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

Falling on the footpath at the intersection of Molesworth and Woodlark streets this afternoon, Joseph Guilkey. 53. farm laborer, struck his…

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Bone Grafted On Injured Spine Triumph of Surgery. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 5

A triumph of surgery was responsible for Edna Lewis, of Hurstville leaving a private hospital in Sydney today, following an injury to the spine,…

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Lismore Plane Accident Instructor's Statement "Machine Did Not Turn Over."

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

Whilst Robert Donovan, a member of the Lismore Aero Club, was flying dual with the instructor of the Northern New South Wales Aero Club. Mr. B. H…

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Man Shot Dead Bullet Through Wall Crack Accident Near Taree. Taree

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

When a rifle, being carried by a boy on the dairy farm of Mr. W. G. Minnett. Upper Lansdowne, bumped a post and was discharged to-day, Frederick Sewell…

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Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 4

Whilst driving his car in the Coff's Harbor district yesterday evening, the District Surveyor (Mr. A. L. Proust) came into collision with a motor lorry…

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Fractured Skull Murwillumbah Man Collision on Bicycle. Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 5

"Phillip O'Shea, married, was admitted to hospital in a serious condition early this afternoon following a collision between a motor cycle and a…

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Yamba Accident Boy Cyclist Injured Collision with Car. Yamba

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 4

Kevin Joseph Cameron, aged 9 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cameron, of Yamba road, was riding his bicycle to Yamba about 2.45 p.m. to-day, when…

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One Killed Four Persons Injured Collision at Southport. Southport

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 5

A young man was killed and four others injured, one critically, when a sedan car and a milk waggon collided on the esplanade, nearly opposite…

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Murwillumbah Fatality Young Cyclist's Fate. Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 4

Phillip O'Shea, a young married man of Murwillumbah, died in hospital at 9 o'clock this morning following injuries he received in a collision in…

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Plane Crash Passenger Killed Pilot Injured Machine Wrecked Near Kempsey Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 4

When the VH-ULC Gipsy Moth plane, belonging to the Northern N.S.W. Aero Club, piloted by Mr. Harry Franki, of West Kempsey,…

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£2116 Verdict Youth Injured in Collision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 5

A verdict for £2116 was awarded Alex Walton Wyles, 17, by a jury in the Causes Court to-day against Thomas McKavanagh…

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In Car Collision Raleigh Labor Candidate. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

While travelling to Bellingen on Saturday, after addressing a political meeting at Dorrigo Jack Devine Independent Labor candidate for Raleigh,…

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Motor Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

Mr. Wallace, of Karangi sawmill, was badly cut about in a motor accident last week. He was driving from Grafton and was about the Bluff…

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