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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

358 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 18

Ribbon Badly Injured In Track Mishap

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 6

C.R.J.C. Mile candidate, Ribbon, was badly injured on the Grafton track late yesterday morning, when she was staked on one of the…

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Car Accident Near South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 2

Arthur Smith, a married man from Coff's Harbour Jetty, suffered injuries to the head when he was involved in a car…

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Accident to President

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 July 1946 · page 6

Mr. Sam See (president of the Grafton Greyhound Club) Suffered a nastly accident in Sydney last week-end. During a meeting…

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Coaldale Child's Death Finding Returned Of Accidental Drowning

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 3

A VERDICT of accidental drowning was returned yesterday at the inquest held by the Deputy Coroner (Mr. F. M. V. Earle) into the death of two -year -old Mervyn Harley Jarrett, who fell into a disused cattle dip at Coaldale on July 8…

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Footballer Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 5

Arthur Ellem, a member of Woolgoolga reserve grade football team, sustained a broken leg during the reserve grade game v…

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Injured In Car Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 2

Mr. Mark Scoles, an elderly resident of Tweed Heads, suffered an injury to his shoulder when a front tyre of a car in which he…

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Accident With Axe

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 3

George Kays, of Campbelltown, Sydney, suffered an incised wound to the left shin when his axe slipped while…

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Unusual Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 2

Ernest Jennings, a Cup visitor from Bondi, Sydney met with an unusual accident yesterday when he slipped off a bus on to the…

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Accidents At High School Sports

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 2

Three High School students had to receive Ambulance attention on Wednesday as a result of accidents at the combined sports…

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Child Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sun.--A 14 months old child, William Kerr, was drowned yesterday when he fell into a disused well at his parents'…

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Two Killed In Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Two men were killed in road accidents in Sydney last might. They were Albert Leonard Porter, 56, Narrabeen,…

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Campaign To Reduce Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 July 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun--A co-ordinated campaign to reduce the growing toll of the roads will be sought at a conference in Sydney on…

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Student Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 2

Enid L. J. Thomas, 12, a student of Grafton High School,, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Thomas, of Through street…

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Inquest Adjourned on Motor Fatality

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 3

THE inquest into the death of Jack Bowring, who was killed in a motor car accident on the Glen Innes road on July 21, was opened before the District Coroner, Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton yesterday and adjourned until August 9…

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FOOTBALL Loy Injured Unavailable For Shield Final

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 5

Roy Loy, Upper Clarence fullback, suffered a severe injury to a finger at work on Monday, and will not be able to take part in…

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Car-Lorry Accident Court Case Follows Collision on Little Murray Hill Defendant Discharged Conditionally

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 2

Following a collision between a motor car and lorry on the Little Murray Hill, on March 8 last Ivan Eric Cavanagh, driver of the…

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Six Injured In Collision Near Woolgoolga

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1946 · page 2

FIVE Persons were treated at the Grafton Base Hospital on Saturday night for injuries received when two motor vehicles collided on the Woolgoolga road, six miles north of Woolgoolga. Three of them were retained in hospital…

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Footballer Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1946 · page 5

Playing football at Ulmarra on Saturday, Norman Robinson Macleod, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Macleod, of Ulmarra, fractured…

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Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 July 1946 · page 2

A collision occurred in Fry street, Grafton, on Saturday night, between a taxi-cab driven by Athol Mackie and a bicycle…

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Fatality in Mine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.--One man was killed and another fatally injured when crushed by a runaway, coal skip at Baralaba mine…

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