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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Fatal Accident at Tinonee. Fell Under Lorry

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 4

Oscar Sullivan, 8 years old, son or Mr. Sidney Sullivan, of Tinonee, was fatally injured on Wednesday evening. The boy was riding on a motor lorry,…

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Fatality at Tinonee Little Boy Killed

The Northern Champion · Saturday 25 July 1931 · page 5

There was a sad occurrence at Tinonee on Wednesday last, at about 5.30 p.m., when Jack, the 8 years old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Sullivan, of Tinonee,…

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Motor Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 28 July 1931 · page 4

Whilst travelling the Pacific Highway, and near Sapling Creek the Chevrolet van used by Messrs Dan Bros., of Gloucester, left the road…

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Tinonee Fatality Inquest by Coroner

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 29 July 1931 · page 3

At the Tinonee Police Court on Saturday morning the District Corner (Mr Hubert Flett) held on inquest into the death of john Manning Sullivan, the 8…

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Tinonee Fatality. Accidentally Caused

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 2

The Coroner, Mr. Hubert Flett, on Saturday morning conducted an inquiry at the Court House, Tinonee, into the cause of death of a boy…

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Tragic Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 August 1931 · page 2

Mr. Hilton James McBaron, son af Mr. and Mrs. M. McBaron, of "River-view," Bellinger River, was killed at Maclean last Thursday. It appears…

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Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 4

About 4.30 on Wednesday afternoon, Cyril Davis, nearly 11 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Davis, Station-street, Macksville, was riding…

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Fatal Accident at Port Macquarie

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 4

Harry Stennett, aged 19, of Port Macquarie, was killed instantly when a tree felled by him and Peter Monk struck another, from which a dead…

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Fatal Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1931 · page 4

The uncertainty of life was forcibly brought home to one and all on Wednesday of this week, when Mr. Harry Stennett, aged 19 years, was killed…

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Shooting Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1931 · page 4

Last Thursday Master George Hyde, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Hyde, of Blackman's Point, was the victim of a shooting…

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Injured Footballers Make Good Progress

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 11 August 1931 · page 2

L. Turnbull, the Kempsey three quarter line man, who was injured on Saturday, sustaining a broken collarbone, and S. Anderson, the New…

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Serious Shooting Accident at Yarras

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 11 August 1931 · page 2

Last Thursday Master George Hyde, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hyde, of Blackman's Point, was the victim of a shooting accident near…

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Shooting Accident Boy Shot Near Yarras

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 12 August 1931 · page 1

Last Thursday Master George Hyde, youngest sou of Mr and Mrs Fred Hyde, of Blackman's Point, was the vic[?] of a shooting accident near Yarras, on the…

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Painful Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 12 August 1931 · page 4

Saturday afternoon last, Mr. Charles S. Smith, of Glenrock Plains, driving home from Kempsey, in a spring cart, which contained a scarifier, met with…

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Serious Shooting Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 14 August 1931 · page 6

On Thursday of last week Master George Hyde, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hyde, of Blackman's Point, was the victim of a shooting…

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A Safeguard Against Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 August 1931 · page 9

It is rather surprising that some provision has not been made by automobile manufacturers for the fitting of a red reflex glass button at the rear of…

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Current Topics a Collision

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 2

Our Stratford scribe writes : A sensation was caused in Stratford on Sunday afternoon when a passing car tried conclusions with a stray calf…

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Motor Accident

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 2

What might easily have been a much more serious accident happened on the road between Wingham and Taree on Saturday night last…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 August 1931 · page 4

Mr. Jack Daniels, assistant teacher at Gladstone School, and well-known in local musical circles, sustained a serious accident, Monday morning,…

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Injured Man Brought Up Hillgrove Gorge

Macleay Argus · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 4

Only those who know the Hillgrove Gorge can appreciate the feat of a small band of men late on Monday afternoon, when they brought to the…

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