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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Accidents

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 5

Mr. Theo. Blair, of Burrapine, brought his youngest son, Clyde, into Sister Gleeson's Macksville Hospital yesterday afternoon, where…

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Latest Telegrams. Fatal Motor Accident. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 4

Mr. Arthur Stutchbury, aged 32, son-in-law of Mr. H. M. Horsington, M.L.A., according to the police was crossing a street when he was struck…

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Accidents Will Happen

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 8

Just one of those accidents that will happen in the home is when something gets stuck fast to the top of the polished table. A piece of paper…

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Sulky Shaft Through Body Car Passenger Injured Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 4

Riding in a car at Granville last night, Alexander McGillivray, 22, was impaled on a sulky shaft when a collision occurred. The shaft passed…

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Road Defects As Accident Causes

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 2

In the report on the Administration of the British Road Fund for 1935-36 there is given an analysis of tho causation of 760 accidents on roads in…

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Children Injured by Motor Car Serious Accident Near Craven

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 2

At about 12.30 o'clock ;on Sunday morning, Patricia King, aged 11 years and Marion King, aged 10, were struck by a motor car and more or less…

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Injured in Truck Mishap

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

While proceeding to the ferry at Greenhill just on lunch time on Wednesday something went amiss with a motor truck in which were Miss…

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Plucky Youth Drowned in Orara River

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 1

"Bill Lane, aged 16 12 years, was drowned at Upper Orara in the flood waters on Tuesday afternoon of last week, whilst trying to rescue a foal…

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Latest Telegrams. Aged Woman Injured. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 4

Mrs. Annie Burke, 75, had just left her home at Granville last night when she was knocked down by a motor car. Her skull and right leg were…

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District Court. Taree, Tuesday, March 23. (Before His Honor Judge Clancy). a Collision

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 8

George Billingham claimed from Charles K. Moscatt the sum of £50 as damages for alleged negligent driving on August 22…

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Aquaplane Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 4

At Brunswick Heads, Sunday last, Miss Isabel Wakely. 20, in the presence of several hundred spectators watching the boats and boards in action, was on…

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Motor Accident. Car Over Comara Cutting

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 4

Saturday afternoon, about 5.30 o'clock a Ford touring car containing four Sydney men, en route from Armidale to Kempsey, hit the bank on Hack's…

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Local and General. Injured by Clothes Line

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 4

Failing to notice a clothes line stretched across the yard, Mr. Victor Arnold, of Forth-street, sustained injuries to the nose and head when he…

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District Court. Taree, Tuesday, March 23. (Before His Honor Judge Clancy). a Collision

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 3

George Billingham claimed from Charles K. Moscatt the sum of £50 as damages for alleged negligent driving on August 22…

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Painful Accident. Injury to Eye

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 4

Mr. George Yarnold, of Elands, met with a painful accident on Wednesday last. It appears that he was building a shed near his residence, and was using…

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Accidents Two Narrow Escapes

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

An enjoyable Easter excursion to Sydney and back by car was concluded unfortunately on Tuesday morning last when the occupants…

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Fatal Accident at Telegraph Point

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 10

At Telegraph Point on Thursday Mr. Roy Kearney, a tin-miner, of Gundle, and late of Queanbeyan, was killed when he was struck by the pole…

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Hume Highway Fatality

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

Cecil Solomon, of Burton-street, Darlinghurst, and Oscar Johnson, of Clare-street, Gladesville, were killed late on Thursday night of last week…

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Railway Fatality. the Inquest

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 8

The Coroner (Mr. Hubert Flett) held at the Taree Court House on March 29, an inquest touching the deaths of John Albert George Murphy…

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Two Drowned in Surf

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 4

Two lives at least were lost, and hundreds of surfers were rescued at the point of exhaustion, in the tremendous seas which pounded the…

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