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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Port Macquarie Pilot Believed Drowned

Macleay Argus · Friday 30 July 1937 · page 4

On Thursday morning Captain Liley, Pilot at Port Macquarie, with a crew of two, was crossing the bar at that centre piloting a vessel into…

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Serious Accident Two Men Injured at Taylor's Arm Factory

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 30 July 1937 · page 2

An accident of a rather serious nature took place at the Taylor's Arm Factory on Wednesday morning…

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Taree Player Injured

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 July 1937 · page 6
Also in The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales

Mr. O. K. Humphries, a member of the Taree Tennis Club, left Taree recently for the north-western slopes. Stationed at Wee Waa, he went with a…

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Pilot Drowned at Port Macquarie Taree Resident Has Narrow Escape

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 July 1937 · page 4

Swept overboard from the pilot launch, Hastings, on the bar at Port Macquarie, on Thursday, the pilot, Captain L. G. Liley, 43, was drowned. Mr. Arthur…

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'Plane Crash at Old Bar Around Australia Fliers. Airmen Slightly Injured

The Northern Champion · Saturday 31 July 1937 · page 3

At dawn on Wednesday two young airmen, Rod Julius and Jack Clancy, left Mascot aerodrome, Sydney, on the start of a flight around Australia, but…

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Tragedy at Port Macquarie. Swept Overboard in Heavy Seas. Pilot Drowned; Second Man Rescued by Bosun

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 July 1937 · page 5

Swept overboard from the pilot launch, Hastings, on the bar at port Macquarie, on Thursday, the pilot, Captain L. G. Liley, 43, was drowned…

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Sad Accident. To Pilot Boat. Captain L. G. Liley Missing

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1937 · page 4

As the Nambucca was to cross in from Sydney on Thursday, Captain L. G. Liley went out to sound in the Pilot boat "Hastings." He was…

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Current Topics Accident to Drover

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 3 August 1937 · page 2

A man named James Steinbeck, who we understand lives in the William Town district, met with a very painful accident on Thursday…

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Accident at Taylor's Arm Factory

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 August 1937 · page 4

An accident or a rather serious nature took place at the Taylor's Arm factory on Wednesday morning last. The engineer, Mr. Neil Napier, was…

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Pilot Drowned

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 1

Thursday last at Port Macquarie, sounding the bar prior to piloting the North Coast S.N. Coy's Nambucca into port, the motor-driven pilot vessel…

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Woman and Son Injured in Fire. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 5

Mrs. Violet Verrell, 45, when trapped in her blazing home at Chullora last night while recovering a handbag, leaped through the window with…

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Taree Railway Fatality. the Inquest

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 9

The Coroner (Mr. Hubert Flett) held at the Taree Court House on Wednesday an inquest touching the death of Eric Kennedy, who died as a…

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Railway Yard Fatality Death of Eric Kennedy Coroner's Inquest

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 1

At the Taree Court House on Wednesday the Coroner, Mr. H. P. C. Flett, conducted an inquest into the death of Eric Kennedy, who was pinned between the…

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Fall From Balcony. Inquest: Accidental Death

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 2

Au inquest touching the death of Frank George Simmonds, who was Fatally injured as the result of the fall from a balcony, was held by the…

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Car Accident at Ward's River

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

On Friday evening last a motor accident occurred at the railway crossing at Ward's River and as a result a man named McLean, from…

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Collision in Taree

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 2

On Saturday forenoon a collision occurred at the intersection of High and Commerce Street's, Taree. when…

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Road Accidents

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 2

On Friday last Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, of Katoomba, were travelling by car to spend a holiday in Queensland when they struck trouble near Moorland…

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Motor Accidents. Narrow Escape Near Moorland

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 2

What might have ended very seriously was a motor accident, near Moorland, on Thursday last, about midday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morgan…

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Collision in Taree

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

On Saturday forenoon a collision occurred at the intersection of High and Commerce Streets, Taree. when a utility driven by Mr. Sam Bird, and…

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