Two Drowned Surfers' Paradise Disaster. Brisbane
While attempting to rescue a Sydney woman from drowning at Surfers' Paradise to-day Reginald North, private secretary to the State Treasurer,…
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Accidents, 1941
431 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 22
Swan Creek Accident
Keith Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clive Watkins, met with a painful eye injury whilst working with his father and brother. The three men were engaged in making a…
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Eric John Harris, single, North street. Grafton, sustained lacerated wounds to the right hand and leg arid concussion, when a bicycle he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shots Fired Police and Civilians Three Injured in Melbourne. Melbourne
Following an altercation in which a number of shots were fired between police and civilians at Fitzroy early this morning, two policemen and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Creek Three Trapped in Car Accident Near Wagga. Wagga
For over an hour and a half three members of a family who were seriously-injured were trapped in a wrecked car without aid at the bottom of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Fatality
A nine-year-old boy, Alfred Dixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Dixon, of Ulan, near Dunedoo, died in Gulgong District Hospital as the result of a 32 calibre…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jockey Injured. Melbourne
When Aloe Hill jumped into the tapes at the start of the Juvenile. Handicap at Moonee Valley races to-day J. O'Brien was thrown and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tranquil Star Injured in Saturday's Race Doubt About El Golea. Melbourne
Although Tranquil Star had her off bind leg stripped and her heel quartered while running in the Futurity Stakes on Saturday, the mare responded well to saltwater…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discoverer of Insulin Killed in Plane Accident. Ottawa
The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, announced that Sir Frederick Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was killed while "en route for Britain on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Main Roads Employee Injured
Ernest William Duroux, Department of Main Roads employee, suffered a lacerated wound to the wrist, when he slipped and struck his wrist on a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Liner Down Four Dead; Seven Injured. Atlanta (Georgia)
Captain Eddie Richenbacker, president of Eastern Airlines, Congressman William Byron and fourteen others are aboard a transport plane which is hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pedestrian Road Accidents
The improvement in the general load accident situation last year, although not as great as was hoped, was not extended fully to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car Accident
Mr. M. Yarad, of Taree, brother of Dr. P. C. Yarad, Coffs Harbour, had his car run off the road and into a tree last Friday afternoon, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycle Accident
Two young men resident of Wingham were found, on the road about daylight last Saturday morning, having been thrown from a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Accidents
Four accident cases were dealt with by the ambulance at Bellingen last week-end. Mr. W. P. Tyson, of Fernmount, was struck on the top…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident at Ulmarra Contractor Injured. Ulmarra
Mr. Malcolm Eggins, a married man. of Ulmarra, met with a very nasty accident late yesterday afternoon when he fell-from the roof of a shed he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and General Meatworks Employee Injured
Whilst climbing on to the roof at the Casino meatworks late on Wednesday afternoon Warren Blackadder fell and sustained concussion. He was conveyed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Injured in Collision
Miss Patricia Woods, an employee at the Freemasons' Hotel, Grafton, sustained injuries to the left side, hip, knee and wrist and concussion when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Head-on Collision Motor Cyclist Killed Accident Near Lismore Lismore
Leonard George Rose (20) was killed when a motor cycle he was riding and a motor car driven by Mr. L. W. McLennan, Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Drowned Man Rescued From Surf. Sydney
A woman was drowned and a man was dragged from the water unconscious at two Sydney beaches during the week-end…
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