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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Accident At Butter Factory

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 May 1951 · page 2

In a fall from scaffolding to a concrete floor at the Grafton butter factory yesterday morning, Harry Edward Layton (67),…

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Your Contribution To Road Safety Human Failure And Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 2

ONCE again, I desire to deal with the element of human failure and its association with road accidents…

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Week-end Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 3

Week-end accidents in the Clarence, district included: Bernard Lawrence Gill (19), of Cloud's Creek, suffered a…

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Inquiry Into Railway Fatality

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 2

The Coronial inquiry into the death of Geoffrey James Buckmaster, railway ganger, which occurred in a collision…

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Man Injured When Horse Falls

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 2

LISMORE, Thurs.--A young man was seriously injured when the horse he was riding stumbled and fell…

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Man Killed In Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--One man was killed, and three people injured in accidents in New South Wales to-night…

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Injured Ankle

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 May 1951 · page 2

Rae Seccombe, a member of the Coff's Harbour Hockey Club, suffered an injury to her left ankle yesterday, while…

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Five Killed, Five Injured In Accidents

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Mon.-- Five people were killed and five others were injured in accidents in New South Wales to-day…

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Elderly Man Fatally Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1951 · page 2

An elderly married man died in Grafton Base Hospital last night after he had been struck by a motor car on the…

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Accidental Death In Railway Fatality

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 May 1951 · page 3

A FINDING of accidental death was returned at the coronial inquiry yesterday into the death of Geoffrey James Buck-master, railway ganger, who died following a collision between a motor tricycle and goods train on April 22 between…

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Young Man Injured In Collision

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 3

Brian Edward James (19), of 8 Devonshire street, Crow's Nest. Sydney, suffered a fractured Tight kneecap yesterday…

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Rev. Clout In Motor Accident

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 3

LISMORE, Men.--Two youths and a clergyman were injured when two utility trucks and a car collided on the…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 2

Leonie Wood, (2), daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. L. Wood, of 146 Bacon street, Grafton, suffered a probable fracture of…

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Plan to Check Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Mr. Hughes (C.P., Armidale) to-day gave notice of a question to the Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan) on road safety measures. He submitted measures to check road deaths…

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Drowned Man "Fell Off Bridge"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 2

At an inquest yesterday, Constable J. W. Hardman expressed the opinion that a man who had been found drowned in…

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Car Accident at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

MACLEN, Sunday.--This afternoon a stranger, John Patrick Bartley, was involved in a car accident near the…

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Railwayman Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 2

Francis William Curnoe, of Railway Reserve, South Grafton, a fireman on the railways, suffered concussion and a…

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Injured at Football

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 2

Alec. Cassidy of Glenreagh, was brought to the Grafton District Ambulance station yesterday suffering from a probable…

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Injured in Shower Mishap

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 2

In an unusual accident last night. Barry Love (21), who resides at the Grafton Fire Station, had to receive…

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Straying Bull Injured Horse

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 June 1951 · page 2

GLENREAGH:-- Mervyn Keith Ellem, of Glenreagh, appeared before the Coramba Court of Petty Sessions, charged with…

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