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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1919

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Cart Accident

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

Whilst delivering goods for his employer, Mr. D. Stewart, at Port Macquarie, on Friday last, Mr. E. Gibson was accidentally crushed against a fence with the cart, and…

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Serious Accident. at Kempsey Power House

Macleay Argus · Thursday 16 October 1919 · page 4

About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. R. Kemp, manager of the Kempsey Electric Light Station, narrowly escaped being killed. As it was…

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The Moorland Fatality

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 October 1919 · page 2

At the Newcastle Circuit Court on Thursday October 9, before the Chief Justice. Thomas Hezekiah Wilkes and Whitney Wilkes were Jointly indicted…

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Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 October 1919 · page 2

A young man named Maxwell was riding at Giro station one day last week when his horse fell and rolled on him, breaking his left leg. After…

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Nasty Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 4

Wednesday afternoon, at the power house in Holman, street Mr. W. R. Kemp, manager of Kempsey Electric Light Cr. met with an accident that…

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Forty Miners Killed. Many More Injured. Accident at a Cornish Mine. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

It is feared that 40 miners lost their lives and that many have been injured at the Levant Mine, near Penzanco, owing to the collapse of a winding engine…

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Motor Car Fatality. Mrs. M. H. Croad Killed

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

Word was received in Kempsey on Sunday last to the effect that Mrs. Isabella Croad, widow of the late Martyn Hyland Croad, and licensee of the…

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Accident

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 4

Whilst stopping from a motor car, last week a nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan, of Smithtown, sustained a painfully lacerated lip. His…

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Kempsey Electrician Injured

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 2

About 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Mr. W. R. Kemp, manager of the Kempsey Electric Light Station, uarrowly escaped being killed. As…

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Fatal Motor Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 4

MRS. CROAD, licensee of the Rugby Hotel, Newtown, and formerly a well-known resident of Taree, was killed as the result of a motor accident on Sunday night. A…

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Motor Car Accident. Claim for £400 Damages. Case of Secomb v. Brown. Jury Awards Plaintiff £100

Macleay Argus · Thursday 30 October 1919 · page 2

In the District Court on Friday the case of Victor Sccomb v. Edward Brown, a claim for £400 damages in connection with a motor-car accident,…

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Pecullar Accident

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

A PECULIAR accident recently took place at Belbora. Mr. W.P. Easton was getting some timber burnt off in one of his paddocks. During the night a tree f[?]ll and…

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Boy Injured

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 4

Saturday last, Clive Townsend, the five-year old son of Mr. Hugh Townsend, from Nambucca side, was climbing a tree, near East…

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Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 4

A young man named Allan Parcell, employed at the Railway Bridge, met with a painful accident on Saturday morning, as a result of which…

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Boating Accident at Jerseyville

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 4

The very strong wind which prevailed last week-end was the cause of a boating accident which may have resulted in serious consequences, but for…

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A Peculiar Accident

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

MR. AND MRS. JAS. DOWNES met with a peculiar accident on Tuesday night of last week, whilst driving home from a Glad-stone function. Their horse suddenly…

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Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 2

A wonderful escape from serious accident occurred at Bathurst one day last week. A girl was wheeling a prom with a baby in it it across the…

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General News Sulky Accident a correspondent writes:—

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 2

A serious accident, which wonderful to relate, did not prove fatal, happened to Mrs. W. Farley, Junr., her habe and Miss V. Yates, on the Glen…

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Riding Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 12 November 1919 · page 4

Yesterday, Tuesday, morning when Mr. Edwin Hose, Telephone Department line inspector, was proceeding to work riding a young horse, and…

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Accidents

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 4

Mr. M. Reilly, of Belmore River, is suffering from broken ribs and a badly lacerated hand sustained whilst shipping horses one day last week. Donald…

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