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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

358 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 9 of 18

Bushworker Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 June 1946 · page 2

Honald Wilson, of Dobie street. Grafton, was treated at the Grafton District Ambulance Station yesterday for an injury…

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Footballers Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 June 1946 · page 5

Several players were injured during the football matches at Grafton on Saturday. Sid Philp, of Maclean, suffered…

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Tucabia Resident Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 June 1946 · page 2

Clive Clarence Green, of Tucabia, suffered a crushed right foo on Friday morning when a limt off a tree fell upon it…

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Footballer Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 2

Playing for Grafton in a football match against South Grafton, at the Showground yesterday, William Bevan, of 19 Pound…

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Foot Injured by Gunshot

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 2

When Mrs. R. C. Hayes, of Upper Kangaroo Creek, went out shooting dingoes yesterday afternoon, she slipped while walking…

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Grafton Youth Injured At Casino

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 2

LISMORE, Mon.—When Allan Wilks, 17, of Graf ton, fell, and struck a fence while competing in a race at the Casino cycling…

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Sawmill Worker Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 2

Francis Edwin Graham, of South Grafton an employee of Northern Sawmills at Cloud's Creek, suffered a crushed foot…

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Rugby League No Replacements For Injured English Players

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Tues.—Although the Rugby League received a reply yesterday, from the managers of the touring team in Australia accepting the offer to send…

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Two Killed in Truck Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—When a truck swung to avoid a collision and crashed over an embankment on the Korumburra-Poowong road…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

Warren John Doyle, 7. son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Doyle, of Armidale road, South Grafton. suffered a fracture of the left…

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Footballer Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 June 1946 · page 2

John Douglas Burkamshaw, of 184 Powell street, Grafton, sustained severe injuries to his pelvis when playing football at…

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Swan Creek Resident Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 2

Mr. Alvan Green, of Swan Creek, received a cut to his foot when he jumped off a tank stand onto a piece of sharp tin. He…

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Toe Injured By Broadaxe

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 3

EELLINGEN, Tuss.—Mr. Don Brown, a timber-getter of Nambucca Heads, was squaring a log in the bush at Valla when his…

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Tomahawk Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 2

BELLINGEN, Tuesday.—Victor Rogers, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Les Rogers, of Repton, suffered a large incised wound to the index…

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Schoolgirl Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

Clarice Violet Napper, 15 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. W. Napper, of Hoof street, Grafton, suffered an injury to he…

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Injured by Fall

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

Mrs. D. J. Roche, 73, of Copmanhurst, suffered a probable fracture of her right arm as a result of a fall at her home on…

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Japanese Drowned Captured Guerillas

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—According to the N.E.I. Information Service at least 1000 Australian, British and Dutch guerilla combat fighters captured by Japs were jammed into pig baskets and drowned in the sea near Sourabaya…

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Accidents Treated By Ambulance

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 8

Accidents treated yesterday by the Grafton Ambulance were:— Desmond George Fischer, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Fiscner, of…

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Seamen Believed Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 3

PERTH, Sun.-- Two seamen are believed to have been drowned from a dinghy which overturned in Albany Harbour on Friday…

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Two Footballers Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 5

Two members of the Maclean reserve grade football team were taken to the Lower Clarence Hospital on Saturday with injuries…

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