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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Struck with Hammer Intruder Seriously Injured

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 4

Following a disturbance outside a house at Newtown last night Jack Kennedy (29) is in hospital in a serious condition while another man is charged…

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Motor Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 4

Mr. G. S. Coberoft, chemist, of Taree, was killed at that centre on Monday morning, through the car in which he was travelling overturning…

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Late. G. S. Cobcroft. Coroner's Inquest. Accidental Death

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 20 February 1932 · page 3

The Coroner, Mr. Hubert held at the Taree Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon, an inquiry touching the death of Geoffrey Sidney…

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Plane Crashes. Strikes Electric Cable. Mr. Ulm Injured

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 24 February 1932 · page 3

Flight-Lieutenant C. T. P. Uim who accompanied Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith on several of his famous fights, and a companion were…

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Man's Leg Severed Accident on Line Near Taree Loco Sheds

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 24 February 1932 · page 2

An accident which had a fatal termination occurred on the railway line near the Taree locomotive steds on Friday night. The victim was James Bugg…

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Unusual Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 26 February 1932 · page 4

Alfred Green, 43, a married man, living at Glenreagh, sustained severe head injuries in an unusual accident late last Saturday afternoon. Green…

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Coroner's Inquiry Taree Train Accident

The Northern Champion · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 1

The District Coroner (Mr. Hubert Flett) held an inquiry on Tuesday afternoon concerning the death of Joseph Bugg, who was run over by a train near…

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Railway Accident. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 2

The Coroner, Mr. Hubert Flett, held at the Taree Court House on Tuesday an inquest touching the death of Joseph Bugg…

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Car Accidents. Contributary Causes

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 February 1932 · page 5

Petting has been shown by a Sydney insurance company to cause more accidents than anything else. "One driver," said an insurance…

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Saved After Two -Hour Fight. Baby Apparently Drowned

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 3

Resuscitation methods applied to Kenneth Savins, 8-months -old child of Mr. and Mrs. R. Savins, of Wyrallah, near Lismore, saved the child's life…

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Serious Accident. Thrown From Sulky

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 7

Mrs. B. Relf, of Candle Flat, Upper Manning, met with a very painful accident on Saturday afternoon last, when a horse she was driving in a…

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Drowned at Sea

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 5

Adelaide says that the motor boat in which S. R. Justice and A. J. Wilson left Beachport last Friday, was washed up on the beach yesterday, in…

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Fishermen Drowned Motorboat Battered. Sydney

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 2

A motor boat in which two men left Beachport (South Australia) on Friday was washed up on the beach yesterday in a battered condition a few miles…

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Bank Robbed Teller Blinded with Pepper Manning Boy Injured

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 2

The Bank of New South Wales at Muswellbrook was robbed on Friday afternoon after the teller (Mr. T. G. Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W…

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Shocking Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 5

A six-year old child, Kathleen Mc-Donald, of Mudgee, was playing with a detonator in the washhouse of her parents' residence when it exploded…

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Child Drowned

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 March 1932 · page 6

A child named Eric Gilmore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Gilmore, was drowned in a well at their place, near thee Moorland cemetery about dusk on…

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Kendall Fatality at Laurieton

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 2

William, the 11 years old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lauric, of Lauricton, was killed in tragic circumstances on Thursday. Unknown to Mr. Smith he was…

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Coronial Inquiry. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 3

At Kempsey Court House on Friday last the District Coroner Mr. N. L. Parker J.P. held an inquiry into the death of Thomas Isaac Lawrence son…

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Motor Car Accident

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 9 April 1932 · page 7

A nasty accident happened on the Comboyne cutting on Monday afternoon last—about a mile up the cutting from Killabakh…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 12 April 1932 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon still another tragedy was added to the rather long, list of such unfortunate occurences which have taken place in the placid…

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