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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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M.h.r. Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.—Rowley James, M.H.R. for Hunter, was seriously injured to-night when the Commonwealth car in which…

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Brothers Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun. --Two youths were drowned when they were washed off high rocks near Cape Nelson in the Portland…

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19 Injured In Bus-Tram Smash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.--Nineteen persons were injured, six seriously, when a bus and a tram collided at Woolloongabba…

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Car And Furniture Van In Head On Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 2

WOOLGOOLGA.--A Ford sedan car, driven by Leslie P. Chandica, banana farmer of Rous Mill, Richmond River, and a…

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Detective Injured In Rooftop Chase

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 2

Detective-Sergeant D. Dallas, formerly of Grafton, who is now stationed at Sydney, took part in a rooftop chase at…

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Yesterday's Accidents

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

Mrs. Fmily J. Lynch (63) of Ryan street, South Grafton, suffered a fracture of the right thigh yesterday, when she fell…

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Ankle Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 3

As a result of jumping on to uneven ground yesterday afternoon, Kevin Paglino (18) sustained an injury to his left ankle…

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Injured By Cornstalk

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 2

BELLINGEN.--Mr. H. [?] Moody, of Kalang, is in Bellingen Hospital as a result of an injury on his farm, sustained when he…

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Bicycle And Omnibus In Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon a collision occurred at the intersection of Craig and Clarence streets, Grafton…

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11 Killed in U.s. Aircraft Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

FLORIDA, Fri. (A.A.P.).--At least eleven persons were killed to-night, when a navy D.C.3 transport and a small trainer…

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Fatally Injured Saved Smash

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sun.--A railway porter was fatally injured at Newcastle station last night when he was crushed against the…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2

GLENREAGH:--Leslie, nine-years-old son of Mr. W. Mallett, sustained a deep cut in the forehead when he fell from a…

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Fernbrook Road Accident Error of Judgment Court Aftermath

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 August 1948 · page 1

The sequel to a motor accident which occurred on the Fernbrook Road during a heavy fog, on the evening of March 25. and in which it…

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Accidents Mar Tennis Championships

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 13 August 1948 · page 3

Several accidents am ong players marred Bellingen Tenhis Club's Championship games last week-end. In a singles…

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Injured Leg

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Sun.-- When a middle aged woman, Mrs. A. Hammond,of Pitt Street, Coffs Harbour, slipped as she…

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Engineer Drowned In Antarrctic

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 August 1948 · page 1

HOBART, Mon.--Charles Henry Scobie, an engineer with the Antarctic research expedition on Macquarie Island, was drowned in…

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Fettler Killed in Collision at Coffs

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 1

A shocking fatality occurred about 8 o'clock yesterday morning when William Palgrove Carroll, railway fettler,…

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Man Injured During Yesterday's Gale

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 2

A BANYABBA State Forest employee is in the Grafton Base Hospital with head injuries received when he was struck by a tree limb blown down in yesterday's westerly gale. He is Edgar Roy Ellen (42),…

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Cyclist Injured On Jetty Road

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 5

Whilst riding his bicycle home along the Jetty Road about 8.30 last night. Noel McDowell, 17 years, son of Mrs…

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Boy Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 2

With a piece of steel off a timber wedge embedded in his right leg near the knee, Kenneth John Bailey, 9, of Corindi, was…

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