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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

168 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 9

Brothers Injured: Laboratory Explosion

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 March 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Two brothers were seriously injured and the laboratory in which they were experimenting was badly…

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One Man Killed, Three Injured, In Lorry Smash

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 March 1945 · page 2

When a truck left the road and crashed On the Pacific Highway, about 24 miles from Grafton towards Woolgoolga,…

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Road Accidents Increase In N.S.W.

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 2

Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of the State showed increases in 1944 over the previous year. In the…

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Collision on Race Track

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues.--Mome, J. Barden's charge broke her back and was destroyed, and apprentice A. Franklin was injured, in a collision on Randwick…

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Accidental Death

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

The District Coroner. Mr. E. J. Andrew, returned a verdict of accidental death, after inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the…

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Child Drowned in Bath

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--Four years old Pamela Molly Sullivan, of Randwick, was drowned in two and a half inches of water this…

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Peculiar Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 4

The well-known former Clarence River jockey, Amby Atkins, met with a peculiar arid serious mishap while riding at Toowoomba…

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The Briggsvale Fatality Accidental Death Coronial Inquest

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 1

The District Coroner, Mr. E. J. Andrew, returned a verdict of accidental death, following an inquest held at the Dorrigo Court House, on…

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Chief Justice of Victoria Injured on Drome

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The Chief Justice of Victoria, Lieut-General Sir Edmund Herring, was injured when struck by a…

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Bush Workers Seriously Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 April 1945 · page 2

While hauling out the head of a tree by means of a team of bullocks, Mr. Wilfred Rees, of Fernbrook, had portion of a…

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Sailor Fatally Injured In Collision At Coff's

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 2

Able Seaman James Hill, R.A.N., was fatally injured when his motor cycle collided with a horse and cart in Grafton street,…

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Week-end Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 2

Four accidents were attended by the Grafton District Ambulance during the week-end. John Eric Shaw, 15, of Tucabia…

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Collision At South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 April 1945 · page 2

Yesterday morning a collision occurred at the corner of Bent and Ryan streets, South Grafton, between a City Garage motor…

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Inquest On Atholglen Fatality

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 April 1945 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, Mr. K. M. Dash. at Grafton. Courthouse yesterday,…

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Grafton Court Collision Case

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 5

Before Mr. K. M. Dash, Police Magistrate, at Grafton Court yesterday, Charles Edward Hobbs, charged with failure to give way…

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Found Injured On Footpath

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.--Anne Moore, 25, who told the police she was from North Queensland, was found lying on the footpath…

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Dorrigo Accidental Death

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 6

The District Coroner, Mr. E. J. Andrew, returned a verdict of accidental death, following an inquest into the death of Arthur…

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Fined For Failing To Report Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1945 · page 6

Before Mr. K. M. Dash, Police Magistrate, at Grafton Police Court, yesterday, Terence Bernard Smythe pleaded guilty…

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Level Crossing Fatality

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 May 1945 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Herbert Morris well-known jockey and rider of two Australian Cup winners, Mutable and Taramoa, and…

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Collision Inquest Adjourned

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 May 1945 · page 3

The inquest on the death of Earl Richard James, who died at the Grafton Base ' Hospital on March 14, following a…

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