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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

183 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 8 of 10

Remarkable Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1922 · page 4

A REMARKABLE accident happened at Adamstown station on Saturday night. Ald. Thompson, with his wife and boy, was standing on the Boolaroo platform…

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Serious Mill Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1922 · page 4

ON Tuesday last, while working at the Bargo Mill, William Lewis, jun., met with a serious and painful accident. By some means his left hand was caught and badly…

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Telegrams. Motor Car Capsizes. Two Passengers Seriously Injured. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 October 1922 · page 3

A car, driven by Leo Day, of Lower Fort-street, also occupied by Walter Carruthers, aged 56, and the latter's six children, crashed into a telegraph…

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Attacked by a Peewit. Boy Seriously Injured

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 4

AN 11-year-old boy, Leo Dreise, was walking through McKittrick Park, South Grafton, when a peewit darted at him from one of the ornamental…

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Express Derailed. 19 Killed, Many Injured. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 5

A Bucharest message says the Constanzo express was derailed. Nineteen were killed and 50 injured…

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Remarkable Fatal Accident. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 5

Graham Cairnes, aged 9, residing at Lavender Bay, died in hospital today as a result of a remarkable accident at Lavender Bay Baths last night…

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Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 4

Mr. Dennis Macnamara, who is employed in the Government quarry at South West Rocks, was struck on the head by a piece of stone, on Friday…

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Shooting Accident. a Close Shave

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 October 1922 · page 4

MR. ALBERT HOOKE, Son of My. R. L. Hooke, of Belbowrie, was the victim of a shooting accident on Wednesday afternoon last It appears that…

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Shooting Accident. a Close Shave

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 1 November 1922 · page 4

Mr. Albert Hooke, son of Mr. R. L. Hooke, of Belbowrie, was the victim of a shooting accident recently. It appears that Mr. Hooke, who is…

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Motor Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 November 1922 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Ling and family had an unpleasant experience on Sunday, but fortunately escaped serious injury. While motoring to…

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Boating Fatality on Sydney Harbour

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 4

As s result of the capsize of the Boronia, an 18ft sailing boat, off Bradley's Head on Sunday morning last, Ivy Kingman, Beatrice Jameson, William Porter, and Alfred…

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A Peculiar Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 4

SAYS the "Manning River Times": When Mr. Alick Bignell was driving through Coopernook on Sunday, on his way to Taree, a peculiar accident happened. His…

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Woman's Horrible Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 4

MRS. HARPER, of Arncliffe, Sydney, was standing on a wheelbarrow banging out clothes on Monday, when the barrow overturned. Mrs. Harper fell on the handle,…

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Boy Accidentally Shoots His Brother

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1922 · page 4

Two brothers named Jack and Sidney McGarry went out shooting rabbits with pearifles at Mumbil on Saturday afternoon. Sidney logged a rabbit and called to his…

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A Peculiar Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 2

When Mr. Alick Bignell was driving through Coopernook on Sunday, on his way to Taree, a peculiar accident happened. His horses were trotting along…

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Peculiar Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 November 1922 · page 4

A most peculiar accident occurred at South West Rocks on Tuesday last. Mr. George Blight, in company with other workmen, were engaged on a building…

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Drowning Fatality

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 November 1922 · page 2

A sad drowning fatality occurred at Kempsey on Monday. A lad named William Hyde, aged about 10 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hyde, of…

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Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 November 1922 · page 2

On Saturday morning, Mrs. Cox, wife of Mr. H. E. Cox, manager of the Toorooka butter factory, met with a singular accident. A portion of the…

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Aeroplane Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 November 1922 · page 3

The Avro-Dyak aeroplane piloted by Lieut. Butler, which brought the film "Thunderclap" to Kempsey, last week, came to grief at Bellingen on Thursday…

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Shocking Drowning Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1922 · page 4

A very sad accident occurred at Kempsey on Monday, when Master William Hyde, a ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Wm. Hyde, of…

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