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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

336 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 17

Collision Ship Allowed To Sail

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.).--The detention order fastened to the mast of the Swedish tazker Divinia, following the collision with the submarine Truculent, was removed at dusk last night by an Admiralty…

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Condition of Injured Jockeys

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sun.--Successful Sydney apprentice jockey, Stan Taylor, 20, regained consciousness in St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Court Case Follows Collision

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

Keith Neville Hall was fined £4 and 10s costs at Coffs Court of Petty Sessions on Friday on a charge of negligent driving,…

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Service Buses in Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

The passenger buses belonging to Mr. M. C. Barnier. proprietor o? the Grafton Glen Innes service, came into…

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Accidents Need Ambulance Service

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

Two accidents at the weekend needed the services of Coffs District Ambulance. In the first case Ray Alcook of High…

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Injured at Work

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

Noel Gorman (17). of North street. South Grafton, yesterday suffered a lacerated wound to his left hand at the Clarence…

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Injured Jockey Still On Serious List

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--Apprentice jockey, Stan Taylor, 20. injured in a smash at Randwick on Saturday, is still in a serious…

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Young Couple Die After Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tues.--A young couple who were injured in a motor cycle accident on Saturday died to-day within two hours of…

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Child Drowned At Cronulla

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Lifesavers searched unsuccessfully for the body of Janet Cahill, 5, of Parramatta road, Lewisham, who…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

MACLEAN.--Late on Wednesday night a collision occurred in Lower River street, Maclean, between a motor cycle, ridden by…

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Macleay Man Missing; Believed Drowned

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Thurs.--Cyclonic conditions along the North Coast are believed to have caused the death of Macleay…

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Youth Injured Diving

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--A youth received a probable fractured neck when he dived from the shoulders of two other youths into the…

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Series Of Accidents During Week-end

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 2

Accidents resulting from a wide variety of causes occurred in Grafton during the week-end…

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Youth Accidentally Shot

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Colin John Burge. 17 of Granville, was shot in the right buttock when a rifle carried by a…

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Three Dead, 18 Injured in Ship Explosion

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Three naval ratings are dead and 18 others, also two civilian workers, are in hospital following the petrol explosion deep down in the bowels of the tank landing,ship, HMAS Tarakan, at Garden Island Dockyard, Sydney, to-day…

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Youth Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 5

PORT MACQUARIE. Sun.--Malcolm Lindburn, herd tester of Hamilton, New Zealand, was drowned on his 19th birthday…

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Youthful Rider Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 2

A nine-year-old boy was thrown from a horse and injured late yesterday afternoon. The boy, Kevin William…

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Drowned Attempting To Save Child

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Archie Harrison Beard, 60, Bonnefin road. Hunter's Hill, was drowned trying to save his friend's daughter…

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Ray Treatment For Injured Cricketers

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--Injured NSW Sheffield Shield cricketers Alan Davidson and Ron Kissell, received ray treatment for their…

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Two Boys Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 2

A lacerated wound over the right eye was suffered by Russell Lancaster (3), son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lancaster, of 5…

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