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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Alleged Vendetta Parramatta Charge Inspector's Wife Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 January 1942 · page 3

When Frank Ragonesi, 40, market gardener, was charged in the Parramatta Court to-day with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Rita…

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Banana Worker Injured

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

While stopping bananas at the bottom of a flying fox on his plantation at Uki, Frank Walsh, of Boyd's Bay, sustained a large lacerated, wound to…

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Street Accident Truck Hits Lamp Post

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

During a blackout in the town last night a military truck struck the lamp standard in the middle of the post office intersection and the driver and…

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Bicycle Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1942 · page 2

John Gorton, 15½-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Gorton, of Coffs Jetty, was admitted to the District Hospital on December 28, with…

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Child Drowned in Baths

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1942 · page 2

Carmel Nerelle Bruce (5) was drowned in the Murwillumbah Municipal Swimming Baths on Saturday afternoon. The child…

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Two Die In Car Accident Two Others Seriously Injured. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 January 1942 · page 2

A Marburg farmer, Charles Krause, aged 65, and his wife. Helena Krause, about 60, were killed about midnight on…

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Narrow Escape Car Overturned Sole Occupant Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 January 1942 · page 4

Squadron-Leader Jenkinson, of the Evans Head Bombing and Gunnery School, sustained serious injuries when his car went off the…

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Accidental Drowning Verdict

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2

A verdict of accidental drowning was returned by the Inverell District Coroner, Mr. L. J. Cloonan, when he conducted an…

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Drowning Case Inquest

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2

The inquest into the death by drowning of Carmel Narelle Bruce, aged five years, in-to Murwillumbah Municipal Baths…

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Injured at Work

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2

While working at Stockyard Creek yesterday afternoon, Clive William Montford, married, of Prince street, Grafton, struck his…

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Heavy Fall To Concrete Path Sleepwalker Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1942 · page 2

Believed to have walked in his sleep, Mr. Don Gregor, a member of the R.A.A.F., and son of a well-known Lower Clarence…

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Sleepwalker Injured

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 January 1942 · page 3

Don Gregor. a Member of the U.A.A.F. and son of a well-known Lower Clarence farmer, was severely injured when lie fell about 15 feel…

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Collision with Car

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 2

A 12-year old girl, Patricia Mary McBride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McBride, of 12 Villiers street, Grafton, received…

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Girl Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 January 1942 · page 2

Dawn Johnston, 8, of Oliver street, Grafton, suffered a severe laceration to the left leg on Saturday afternoon when she fell…

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Little Boy Drowned At Baths Tragedy at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1942 · page 4

Nolan Jones, five-year-old son of Mrs. H. D. Jones, of Prince street, Grafton, was drowned in the Grafton baths, about 11…

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Freighter Lost Collision in Atlantic. New York

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1942 · page 5

It was announced by the third naval district that the Brazes, a 4497 ton freighter, was sunk off the Atlantic coast after a…

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Young Woman Injured

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 2

While the heaviest squally rain was tailing in last Sunday afternoon's storm, just as a heavy clap of thunder followed a sharp flash of…

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Injured in Fall

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 4

Patrick Molloy, 61, of Wharf street, South Grafton, was last night treated by the Grafton District Ambulance for an injury to…

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A Dreadful Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1942 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Port Macquarie Coroner last week respecting a distressing accident that occurred there…

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Barham Lost Battleship Sunk In November NEARLY 900 Men Drowned. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 5

It is believed that only about 300 officers and ratings were saved from the British battleship Barham, which was sunk in the…

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