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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Crossing Fatality Due To Negligence

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 3

CASINO, Thursday-- The District Coroner, Mr. Elsmer Jones, at the conclusion of a lengthy inquiry, found that omission of duty by Mrs. M. A. Chaffey, gatekeeper at Namoona Railway Crossing…

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Mill Hand Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 2

Ronald Harold Watts (19), an employee at Gibbins' mill, Grafton, suffered concussion and bruises on the forehead while…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

Dennis Palmer (11), of 169 Villiers street, Grafton, suffered a large lacerated wound on his right leg when he fell down a…

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Ambulance Officer Drowned In Pool

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--A young St. John's Ambulance officer, Leslie Millanpa, 20, of 11 John's street. Waterloo, was drowned in the…

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Fatally Injured In Fall From Pony

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

A teenage girl suffered injuries from which she succumbed within a few minutes, when she fell from a galloping pony on the Copmanhurst road, just outside Grafton, on Saturday afternoon…

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Fatally Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.-- A 22-year-old New Australian was fatally injured to-night when a tank of boiling varnish exploded in his…

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Big Increase In Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--There was a startling increase in road accidents in 1950, compared with 1949. according to final figures…

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Accidental Death Verdict

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 2

MACLEAN, Wed.--An inquest touching the death of Garry Wayne Daniels, an inmate of Cowper Orphange, who died at…

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Man Injured In Bridge Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 3

Howard Hutchings, 26, married, of Clarence street, Grafton, was taken to hospital in a serious condition yesterday…

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Accidental Death finding

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 2

An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Thomas Burns, timber cutter, of Coramba, was conducted by…

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Accident At Ulong

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 1

Mr. S. Dooley, an employee of Messrs. Timms Bros., Ulong mill, was seriously injured on Wednesday morning when he fell 14…

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Injured While Attending Cow

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 2

SWAN CREEK. -- Mr. H. Green, well-known breeder of stud stock, met with a nasty mishap when he was stitching…

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Accident Near Tenterfield Two Killed, Three Injured When Truck Crashes Into Bluff River

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--A semi-trailer crashed 150 feet into a river near Tenterfield last night, killing the driver and a passenger, and seriously injuring three other…

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11 Killed, 12 Injured Road-Rail Smash Near Horsham

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday--Police to-day released the names of all but five of those killed and injured in a level crossing smash near Horsham yesterday…

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31 Drowned

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1951 · page 4

POONA, Monday (AAP).--Thirty-one members of a marriage party were drowned on Friday night, after a boat…

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Accident In High Street

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1951 · page 1

When a car driven by Mr. Jack Nolan and a cycle ridden by Harry Wait collided in High Street near Coramba Street on…

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Collision Victim Progressing

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 2

Inquiry at Grafton Base Hospital yesterday revealed that Howard Hutchings (26), of Clarence street, Grafton, was…

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Fatally Injured In Grossing Smash

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 3

WAGGA, Wed.--One man was fatally injured, and two others were injured, when a motor train and a s[?]ni-trailer…

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One Injured In Crash Landing

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 1

TULSA (Oklahoma), Wed. (A.A.P.).--Only the co-pilot was injured when a Convair airliner with 29 passengers and…

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Farmer Killed; Tractor-Train In Collision

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 3

TAREE. Thurs.--A dairy farmer was fatally injured this afternoon, when his tractor collided with a train at a…

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