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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Drowned in Lagoon Wingham Tragedy

The Northern Champion · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

Mr. Albeit Izzard, aged 60 years, Wingham, disappeared from the residence of his relatives in Canget street, Wingham, on Monday morning last,…

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Fatality at Kendall Man Crushed by Log

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 2

Mr. Albert McCarthy, of Kendall, a lorry driver, whilst unloading logs at the Kendall sawmill on Monday evening, had a log roll on him and crush…

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Shooting Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 4

Early Wednesday morning last, John Noonan, aged 6[?] in playful mood told Cliff Barnett, 17, as he came up the steps delivering milk, to put up his…

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The Injured Survivor

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 4

Mr. J. S. Proud, whose leg was broken, being given nourishment by his rescuers on the way back to Lamington…

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Refused to Leave Injured Mate

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 12

Mr. J. R. Binstead on the improvised stretcher on which he was carried by the relief party to Lamington…

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Road Defects as Accident Causes

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 6

In the report on the Administration of the British Road Fund for 1936-36 there is given an analysis of the causation of 760 accidents on…

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Fatal Accident Lorry Driver Killed

The Northern Champion · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 4

Kendall townspeople were shocked on Monday evening, when the news spreads that Mr. Albert McCarthy had received serious injury at the Kendall sawmill,…

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Fell From Chair and Was Injured

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 4

On Saturday last Mrs. Isabella O'Neill, aged 65 years, of Inverell, who was visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Fleming,…

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Tom Snow Drowned

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 4

Macleay folk were deeply shocked Monday last, when the sad news arrived that Mr. Thomas Snow, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Snow, of South…

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Collision. Steamer and Ferry

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 4

The engineer (Mr. R. J Montgomery) in a report to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday, stated:…

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Launch Disaster. Three Saved After Heroic Fight. Six Men Drowned

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 2

Six men were drowned and three others were saved only after desperate efforts by rescuers when the 32ft. launch Voyager was wrecked at the…

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Succession of Accidents

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 3

A Washington correspondent, under date January 15, tells of movements of Government Departments, in response to public demand, to inquire into the…

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Shocking Accident. Child's Head Crushed

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 1

Thursday last, at 3.45 p.m., Barrington Leonard Coleman, seven-year-old son of Mrs. and Mrs. Leonard Coleman, of Clyde-street, met with an…

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Collision. Steamer and Ferry

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 3

The engineer (Mr. R. J. Montgomery) in a report to the meeting of the Manning Shire Council on Monday, stated:—…

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Thrown From Horse and Injured

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 4

Late on Tuesday afternoon Thomas Supple, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Supple, of Bellbrook, was riding a horse at Towall Creek which…

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Launch Disaster. Three Saved After Heroic Fight; Six Men Drowned

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

Six men were drowned and three others were saved only after desperate efforts by rescuers when the 32ft. launch Voyager was wrecked at the…

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Darwin Wrecked by Cyclone. One Dead, Hundreds Injured. Night of Terror. Fears for 50 Luggers. Darwin

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 8

People screamed in terror houses were lifted bodily from the ground and smashed into pieces, wreckage hurtled wildly through the air, as a…

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Local and General Injured in Bush

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 4

While working in the bush on Thursday last, Mr. Alexander Farrell, of Middleton-street, Kempsey, was struck on the head by a falling limb…

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Current Topics Popular Linesman Injured

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 2

When he was working on the telephone line on the Main Road near Ward's River on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Ted Mulholland, the popular…

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Injured Seaman Dies. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 4

Josepr Carroll, 28, the seaman whose legs were severed when he was run over by a truck at the Darling Harbor railway yards early this…

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