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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Accident at Bridle Races

Macleay Argus · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 4

Mr. L. Breekel, of Eungai, had a fall from his horse on New Year's Day whilst, at the bridle races at Barraganyatti, sustaining severe abrasions about…

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Local and General. Accident

Macleay Argus · Thursday 2 January 1919 · page 4

A lad named Cooper, about 10 or 12 years of age, living at Gladstone, was thrown from a horse a few days ago and sustained a broken left arm just…

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An Unusual Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1919 · page 3

A MOST unusual accident occurred at the Inverell showground gates. A party of four men journeyed in a cab to the showground with the object of…

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Clever Youth Drowned

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 January 1919 · page 4

Since our previous issue, young Eric William Debenham, son of Mr. Debenham, of Laurieton, and grandson of Mr E Debenham, of Frederick…

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Train and Tram Collision. Passengers Injured. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

The train which left Rockhampton last night for Lake's Creek was passing along Dennison-street when a tram crossed the line. The train smashed…

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Accident

Macleay Argus · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 4

On Saturday afternoon last, the little daughter, aged three years, of Mr. M. H. Booth, of Timagog, was playing in a swing near the house and slipped,…

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A Simple Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 4

MR. JAMES NOAKES, employed by Mr. A. B. Butler at the Ten-mile, had some bones broken in a very simple manner recently. During the course of his work…

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Strange Coincidences. Two Drowned Men Named Ryan

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 6

At the City Coroner's Court on Friday inquests were held on the bodies of two men named Michael Ryan. The cases provided a curious…

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Accidental

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1919 · page 1

Stonewall Jackson was not a man to speak ill of another man without reason. At a counsel of generals early in the war one of them remarked that…

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Accidents

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 January 1919 · page 4

Mr. John Prisley was drawing logs at Warrell Creek, on Tuesday when one of them fell on his loft leg, breaking it in two places, just above the…

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Accident to Lad

Macleay Argus · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 4

On Monday last the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rowe, of East Frederickton, was burning off some wood a little more than a mile from…

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Injured In Milking Yard

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 February 1919 · page 4

ON Saturday morning last Mrs. E. McInhorney, of Irvine Estate, was engaged in the milking yard amongst a number of cows, when she was gored by one of the…

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Accident

Macleay Argus · Thursday 6 February 1919 · page 4

Mr. W. H. Coleman, of Kinchela, was out with some cattle on Thursday of last week when his horse fell with him, with the result that he cracked a couple…

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Concrete Ships in Collision

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 7

Ferro-conerete ships would not be hopelessly smashed like earthenware vessels if Sup 17 into another vessel of the same class, bow on,…

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Accident at Bulga. COUNCILLOR H. Machin Injured

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 4

A rather serious accident happened to Councillor Machin, at Bulga, on Wednesday. He was trucking a log in the…

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Fatal Accident at Lansdowne

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 4

On Friday tlie police at Taree re ceived word that a'man ndmed Hor bcrt Edwards had been accidentally killed ' near the Lansdowne. Prom the few particulars to liand…

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Shooting Accident at [?]

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 February 1919 · page 4

Just as we were about to go to press ou Friday afternoon last (says the " Manning River Times"), a shooting accident took place at the rear of Mr. Lester Plummer's…

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Local and General. River Accident

Macleay Argus · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

One of the North Coast Company's punts was berthing alongside the Company's wharf the other day and failed to answer her engines with the result…

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Mr. Jack Secombe Injured

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 4

WE regret to state that Mr. Jack Secombe, third son of Councilor and Mrs. P. H. Secombe, of Ennis, met with a serious accident on Friday…

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Motor Fatality

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1919 · page 3

EARLY on Friday morning a motor accident happened about a mile and a half from Alstonville, on Wardell road, in which Irwin Appelby, a…

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