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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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Bellingen Accidents

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 October 1944 · page 2

Paul Holmes, of Hyde street, while climbing on the river bank received a lacerated wound of the right foot and a probable fracture of the toe…

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Coronial Inquiry Fatal Motor Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 October 1944 · page 4

An inquest was held at Maclean Courthouse, on Friday afternoon last by Mr. W. J. Rolph, Coroner, touching the death of Charles Hindra, an Indian,…

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Stock On Roads Liability in Event of a Collision

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 4

There are quite a number of properties divided by main or highways where dairy cattle are milked in yards adjacent to the road and then…

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Yachting Fatality In Victoria

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 October 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.-- A yacht, The Saint, with two occupants, which had been missing in the bay since it put out on a fishing…

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Grafton Nurse Fatally Injured In Train Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 2

Nursing Sister Mary Cecilia Commerford, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Commerford, of Whiteman Creek, via…

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Motor Collision Sequel

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 November 1944 · page 6

The sequel to a collision between a car and a motor lorry at the corner of Bacon and Mary street, Grafton, on September 23, was enacted at Grafton…

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Forty-eight Drowned From Freighter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 November 1944 · page 5

QUEBEC, Fri.-- Forty-eight are missing, following the sinking of a British freighter in the St. Lawrence River, eight miles from…

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Drink Causes Road Accidents Says Magistrate

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 November 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.--Drink had been responsible for 99 per cent. of the road accidents on which he had held inquests…

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Man Shot Dead at Bathurst by an Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 November 1944 · page 4

BATHURST, Wed.--John Gornall (44), a well-known Bathurst business man, was fatally s[?]t, shortly after 9 o'clock this…

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Woolgoolga Airman Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 3

Shortly before he was due to return to his unit, after spending leave with his wife in Woolgoolga, Bernard O'Sullivan, a member of the R.A.A.F., was…

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Pensioner Drowned Walked Into River

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 November 1944 · page 2

On Saturday night about 9.15. two lads named Collins and Beresford, were fishing on the bank at the South Grafton side…

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Week-end Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 November 1944 · page 2

Kenneth Reardon (16), of 105 Mary street, Grafton, suffered an incision to the right thigh when he was struck by a chisel which…

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Accidentally Shot

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 November 1944 · page 2

When a small calibre rifle, with which he was shooting rabbits, was accidentally discharged yesterday. Neil Oswald Fernance…

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War Brides' Ship Sinks Freight In Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 November 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--A collision between their ship and freighter, which sank in 16 minutes, provided an unappreciated…

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Collision Kills Brother and Sister

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 November 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wed.--A brother and sister, the latter the mother of two young children, were killed instantly early last night when…

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Three Drowned At Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 November 1944 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sun.--The police yesterday recovered from Torrerns Lake, Adelaide, the bodies of G. R. Hale (36) and C. H…

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Woolgoolga Man Loses An Eye In Gun Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 November 1944 · page 2

Mr. Alfred Whittaker, of Foster's Mill, a few miles from Woolgoolga, lost an eye as a result of the explosion of a…

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Swan Creek Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 November 1944 · page 1

Mr. George Chard met with an accident while working on his farm. Losing his balance he fell in front of a roller, which passed…

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Three Injured In Bus, Motor Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 November 1944 · page 4

When a special South Grafton bus conveying school children to the Grafton High School and a motor vehicle came into collision…

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Child Drowned In Bellinger River

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 2

Frank Martin, 10 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Martin, of Bellingen, was drowned in the Bellingen River late yesterday…

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