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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Accidents

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 2

Mavis Irene Milligan (4), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Milligan, of Armidale road, South Grafton, was admitted to Grafton Base…

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Girls Believed Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police are searching for Enid Seaton Stewart (18) and her eight-year-old sister, Beth, who have been…

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Motor Collision In Turf Street

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

About 9.30 a.m. on Saturday a collision occurred at the intersection of Bacon and Turf streets, Grafton, between a panel, van,…

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Youth Injured By Sydney Tram

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—Lawrence Victor Southwell (19), of Queanbeyan, who was staying with friends at Haberfield, was…

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Woolgoolga Accidents

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 4

Two members of the staff of the Woolgoolga sawmills met with accidents last week. Mr. Neil Montford suffered a broken foot as the…

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Three Trams In Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--Only seven passengers were injured, and then but slightly, when three crowded trams this morning were involved…

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German Liner Sunk: Thousands Drowned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Mon.—Over 7000 persons are reported drowned as a result of the sinking of the German 25,000-ton ship,…

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Boat Capsized: Baby Drowned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1945 · page 1

MACKAY, Mon.--Roy William Waddington, 14 months, whose parents live at Tekowai, was drowned on Saturday, when a…

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Jockey Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.--Jockey George Moore fractured his left leg and left thumb when he fell from Ducal Gem in the Second Welter Division, at Canterbury…

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Navy Minister Injured In Car Smash

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--When a car in which he was travelling skidded on the wet road surface at Strathfield to-day and crashed into a…

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53 Injured In Train Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Out of 1200 people on two steam trains involved in a head-on collision at Clarendon railway station,…

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Jockey Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.—Apprentice Jockey, A. R. Smith, who was injured in a fall at Randwick yesterday, was still unconscious at 2.30 to-day, in hospital. He…

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Motor Cyclist Killed In Collision With Cart

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 2

One man was killed and two injured as a result of a collision involving a motor cycle and a cart in Villiers street, near Powell…

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Fireman Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—While extinguishing a fire at Forty Baskets beach to-day, a fireman, Frank Knight, became entangled in the…

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Grafton Officer Accidentally Killed

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 2

Mr C. W. Roache, of Winegrove, has been informed that his nephew, Lieut. J. G. (Jim) Roache (A.I.F.). was accidentally…

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Fig Leaves Cause Tram Collision

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Fig leaves cluttering the tramline are said to have been the cause of a tram collision in Broadway at…

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Man Killed at Briggsvale Timber Mill Accident

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 2

Arthur Rixon, aged about 36 years, received injuries which resulted in his death, whilst at work at a Briggsvale timber mill early this morning…

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Fatal Accident At Sawmill

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 March 1945 · page 2

DORRIGO, Fri.--Arthur Rixon, about 36, received injuries which resulted in his death whilst at work at a Briggsvale timber mill…

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Man Injured In Truck Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1945 · page 2

Isaac David Skinner, a middle-aged man, of 55 Cambridge street, South Grafton, was admitted to hospital last night suffering from…

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Bellingen Forest Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1945 · page 4

Bellingen District Ambulance made a fast trip to the Lone Pine Forest area to render assistance to Mr. Bert Pearson, who had…

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