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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Fatal Accident On Highway Inquest Into Motor Cyclist's Death

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 4

At the Taree Courthouse on Friday, the District Coroner (Mr. R. S. Hawkins) conducted an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the…

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Truck Capsizes Accident Near Kramrach

The Northern Champion · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 2

On Tuesday afternoon Mr. L.L. Stone, who is employed by Mr. E.A. Blandley, of the Advan Tyre Service, Taree, was driving a new Pord utility…

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Flood Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 2

A shocking accident occurred about four o'clock on Tuesday evening, when a canoe containing a youth capsized in Forth-street, with the…

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Tragic Drowning Capsize of Canoe

Macleay Argus · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 4

The drowning of John Phillip Richardson serves as a warning to those who neglect the opportunity, constantly available, to learn to swim…

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Giant Seas Hit Manly Ferries Eight People Injured Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 5

Eight people were hurt when great waves battered ferries attempting to cross Sydney Harbor this morning, when torrential rain, which began at…

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Railway Accident Goods Engine and Tender Derailed Fireman Killed And driver Injured

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 6

Owing to very heavy rain, about five inches falling in a storm, a pier of a concrete culvert on the North Coast railway line about…

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Accidental Stock Poisoning and the Antidotes

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 April 1946 · page 6

Extracted from the "New Zealand Journal of Agriculture," this article by D. H. Le Souef contains much information concerning the accidental…

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Motor Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

About four miles on the Mungay Creek road on Tuesday evening, near six o'clock, a V-8 truck driven by Mr. A. Latter, of Kempsey, came into…

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Motor Collision Lorry and Utility Five Persons Injured

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 4

Five persons, members of the Scott family, of Mungay Creek, suffered injuries on Tuesday night when a motor lorry and a utility truck met in…

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Redfern Fatality Man Arrested at Taree

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 5

Two detectives who went from Sydney to Taree on Wednesday to investigate the death at Redfern on Monday of Robert Bell, 64, an old-age…

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Local and General Timber Worker Injured

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 4

Whilst cutting timber at Grassy Head early on Monday, Mr. James Jones, of Stuart's Point, suffered an incised wound to the right leg. He…

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New Patrol Plan to Check Road Accidents

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 8

New method of police motor-cycle patrol of arterial highways to reduce death and injury from traffic accident has been proposed to the Premier…

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Accidents

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 4

When a car in which she was a passenger collided with a telegraph pole at Ghinni Ghinni, On Monday Mrs. E. Latter, of west Wallsend…

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Bellbrook Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 2

About 8 p.m. on Monday evening Constable Olney, of Bellbrook, found a bicycle lying on the roadside at Kilmore's Cutting, about six miles…

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Stolen Bus Wanted to Get to Maitland Doubt on Knowledge of Accident

Macleay Argus · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 4

In Kempsey Petty Sesions on Wednesday, before Mr. J. P. Byrne, PM, Henry Frederick Northwood, 31, acting fireman, was charged with three…

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Cars in Collision in Church Street

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 2

Two cars collided practically head-on in Church Street, at the intersection with Denison Street on Saturday. No one was injured but considerable…

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Drowning Accident

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

Mr. Alfred Barnes, a well-known resident of the Upper Manning, was drowned at No. 2 River, near Nowendoc, on Saturday. He had…

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Man Drowned at Number One

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

On Saturday last it was reported to the police that the body of a man was floating in the Rowley Rive at Number One, near Mt. George, and late in…

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Car Accidents

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

On Friday last a car containing a party of people who had been holidaying at Forster, left the roadside at Avalon, and collided with a tree. Bruce…

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Accidents

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 1

On Friday, after visiting forster and whilst returning from their holiday, a serious accident befel a car party near Avalon (between Nabiac…

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