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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1918

128 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 7

Drowning Fatality at Harrington

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 5

ABOUT 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon last a sad drowning fatality occurred on the Mitchell Island side of the Harrington entrance. It appears that two little lads…

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Drowning Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 30 January 1918 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon a sad drowning accident occurred at the North Coast Company's wharf in Central Kempsey, the unfortunate victim…

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Coaster and Tug in Collision. Incident at the Nambugga River

The Northern Champion · Saturday 2 February 1918 · page 4

According to a report received by the Department of Navigation from the pilot at Nambucco Heads some difficulty was experienced in towing…

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Man Drowned

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 6 February 1918 · page 6

There were hundreds of fishing boats and sailing yachts on the bay when what Is described by yachtsmen as a tidal wave came from the…

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Paris Raid. 45 KILLED, 207 Injured. London

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 6 February 1918 · page 2

A French official message states:—"The casualties in the air raid on Paris on Wednesday night were 45 Killed, of which 31 deaths occurred…

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Remarkable Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1918 · page 5

A REMARKABLE accident occurred at North Sydney on Tuesday last. A waggon owned by Messrs Mick Simmonds, to which were attached two horses, was being…

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Accidents

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 6

The cither day young Jack Daunt was riding a pony, usually a quiet animal, which twisted round suddenly and threw the lad. He fell and broke…

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Town Topics. Nasty Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 27 February 1918 · page 4

The fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Partridge met with a nasty accident while driving some cows on his people's Summer Island farm,…

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Accidentally Shot

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 4

The body of a youth named Leslie Olding, aged 16, was taken from the north-west mail at Singleton on Saturday morning. The deceased, who resided at Forest Lodge,…

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District News. Comboyne. Serious Accident

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 March 1918 · page 4

I very much regret to report that the youngest son of Mr. J. L. Brown, a lad or twelve years of age, met with an accident on returning from…

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Town Topics. Nasty Collision

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 April 1918 · page 4

Wednesday afternoon last, about a mile Kempsey side of Sherwood bridge, Mr. P. J. Moran, the well-known architect, and Mr. Harold…

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Motor Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 5

A motor accident, which fortunately was not attended with very serious results occur[?]ted on the Bowra ville Macksville road. Mr. Angus…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1918 · page 4

MR. AND MRS. W. HYDE, received a letter from Bellbrook, dated Good Friday, notifying them that their son-in-law, Mr. Jack Watt, had left that place the day before on…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. at Craven Creek

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1918 · page 3

Harold John Muncaster, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Muncaster, of "Riverdale," Tarro, was the victim of a fatal shooting accident which…

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Shocking Accident

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 7

With both [?]ighs and legs fractured and the flesh of one leg from hip [?] heel, so that the muscles were exposed, Roy Richie, a 16-year-old…

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Fatal Accident

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 4

James Edward O'Brien, who died in the M.R.D. Hospital on Wednesday morning just after being admitted, was buried in the Church of England…

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Newspaper Man Injured

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 April 1918 · page 4

MR. C. B. BAILEY, of Taree, who has I recently been appointed managing editor of I the " Macleay Aligns," fell from his bicycle on Thursday afternoon last and broke his…

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Fatal Accident

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 April 1918 · page 7

Mr. Edward H. O'Brien, a resident of the Wingham district, was riding out of Wingham on Tuesday evening, and when near the butter…

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Accident to a Soldier

Macleay Argus · Thursday 18 April 1918 · page 4

Pte. McCarthy, was returning to Trial Bay on Wednesday night, and in stopping off the Yulgilbar slipped and broke his left, leg where it had been broken…

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