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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Car Rolls Down Hillside. Man, Wife, and Child Injured

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 6

A sedan car, with three occupants, left the road near the crest of Burringbar Range, near Murwillumbah, overturned and rolled 60 feet down…

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Motor Vehicle Accidents

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 February 1934 · page 1

An accident check kept by the N.R.M.A. reveals that during January 24 persons were killed 1 and 147 injured in road smashes…

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Fatal Accident at Bowman Falling Tree Strikes Moving Motor Lorry

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 1

A tragic happening, which affected the whole community with starting suddenness, was the fatal accident which befel Mr. Vic. Creagh, of Upper Bowman,…

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Motor Vehicle Accidents

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 February 1934 · page 2

An accident cheek kept by the N.R.M.A. Safety Department reveals that during January 24 persons were killed and 147 injured in road smashes…

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Building Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 February 1934 · page 3

Saturday afternoon last at Tamworth Hospital a newly erected, but evidently unset, reinforced concrete verandah collapsed and buried six…

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Simple Accident--Serious Result

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 4

During the recent holidays (says Dorrigo "Gazette") the eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kerrison, of Megan, fell off a push bike and…

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Boy Injured by Calf

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 4

Roy Larkin, son of Mr. W. Larkin, of Mungay Creek, was brought to the District Hospital on Saturday suffering from internal injuries received…

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Car Into River. Accident at Karuah Punt. Woman's Death Follows

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 2

Rescued from the Karuah River by her husband on Friday night, after their car had plunged into the river at the punt, Mrs. Matilda A. Neville,…

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A Painful Accident

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 4

While working for Mr. E. P. Mainey last Monday, Mr. Ernie Drew met with a nasty accident. While driving a horse and cart with a load of…

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Dr. Page Nearly Drowned Boat Capsizes in Flooded River

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 3

Doctor Barle Page, his daughter Mary, and son Douglas, Mr. W. [?] Tart, and a buy named Arthur Onions, of Grafton had narrow escapes from drowning in…

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Crushed in Truck Swagman Injured at Taree

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 2

At about 5 a.m. Tuesday, when the mixed goods train which leaves for Darling Harbour at 5.20 a.m. was being marshalled in the Taree railway yard…

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Small Debts Court Taree, Monday, 26th FEBRUARY. Before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M. Verdict in Collision Case

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 4

In the case in which II. Wilmen Proceeded against Thomas Duke for £12 damages, alleged to be caused as a result of defendant's car striking his…

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Sad Fatality. Mrs. Ida Mulray Dead

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1934 · page 4

A shockingly sudden fatality occurred about 1.30 on Sunday morning when Mrs. Ida G. R. Mulray, of Central Kenipsey, passed away after a very…

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Observer Drowned in Plane Crash. Singapore, 15334

Macleay Argus · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

Tie observer was drowned when an air force plane crashed into the water to-day. The pilot was rescued an hour later…

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Motor Notes News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. More Accidents in Britain

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

The total number of road accidents for last year, in Great Britain shows an increase. The number of accidents was 191,829, compared…

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Compensation 1927 Accident Recalled

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 4

A. particularly interesting case was determined finally before the Workers' Compensation Commission, sitting at Sydney last week, when…

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Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 2

Mr. Max Yates, of Stratford, son of Mr. and Ms. T. B. Yates, of Gloucester had the misfortune to receive a kick from a horse and…

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More Accidents in Britain

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 6

The total number of road accidents for last year in Great Britain shows an increase. The number of accidents was 191,829, compared with…

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Bad Roads Mean Accidents

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 7

The Secretary of the British Roads Improvement Association has prepared some notes dealing with the relation of road accidents to the lack of sufficient…

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Injured Man's Unenviable Experience

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 6

After lying in the bush, on the Little North Arm of the Bellinger River, near Thora, for two days and two nights, a man named Bennett,…

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