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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Fatal Accident at Railway Yards Youth Crushed Between Trucks

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 2

Laurence John Gooch, aged 19, junior porter, was fatally injured when he was crushed between the buffers of two railway trucks at the…

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Fatal Burning Accident

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 2

A fatal burning accident occurred at Happy Valley, on the Taree-Wingham Road, on Monday night. Mr. J. Brown was heard calling out. by…

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Shocking Accident

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1946 · page 2

Mr. Harry William Bird, of South Kempsey, engaged on a carpentering job at Nestles Factory on Thursday, was struck by a large girder that fell…

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Car in Collision with Pole

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 2

When his car ran off the road about two miles on the Gloucester side of Krambach on Sunday afternoon and collided with a telegraph…

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Han Drowned at Greenhills

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 2

Thomas Crane, 24, of Wauchope, was drowned in the sea near Laurieton, on Sunday. Crane had gone schnapper fishing…

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Accident At Railway Yards Binding of Accidental Death

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 1

The Coroner, Mr. R. S. Hawking, conducted an inquest at the Taree Courthouse on Friday, into the death of Laurence John Gooch…

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Fatal Bunting Accident Evidence at Inquest

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 4

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

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Man Drowned at Greenhills

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 2

Thomas Crane, 24, of Wauchope, was drowned in the sea near Laurieton on Sunday. Crane had gone sch[?]apper fishing…

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Boat Capsized Man Drowned Off Laurieton

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 8

Thomas. Crane, 24, of Wauchope, was drowned in the sea near Laurieton on Sunday. Crane had gone schnapper fishing…

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Fishing Tragedy Mr. Tom Crane Drowned

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 10

On Sunday last, Mr. Tom Crane lost his life when the boat in which he and Messrs. "Tucker" Marchment, G. Kingsbury and Sid McKay set off…

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Fatal Accident At Railway Yards Finding of Accidental Death

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 8

The Coroner, Mr. R. S. Hawkins, conducted an inquest at the Taree Courthouse on Friday, into the death of Laurence John Gooch,…

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Fatal Burning Accident Evidence at Inquest

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 2

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

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Tragic Accident MRS: A. B. Arts Killed

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 2

At 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, July 23rd, Mrs. A. B. Artis, wife of the popular manager of the Port Macquarie branch at the Commercial…

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Straying Mare Causes Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 1

The menace of straying stocK on the roads and streets was exemplified last week in an accident in Gloucester, which resulted in…

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Plane Accident at Kempsey

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 2

The pilot of a twin-engined plane had a remarkable escape from serious injury on Friday at the Kempsey Aerodrome when his plane…

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Cars in Collision

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 3

Slight damage was done to two cars which collided at the intersection of Barrington and Denison streets on Tuesday. One of the cars,…

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Injured Tv Woodchops

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1946 · page 2

When competing in the third heat of the novice underhand chop at the showground on Saturday morning last. R. Weismantel, of Stroud Road,…

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Burning Fatality at Crescent Head

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 21 August 1946 · page 8

An old man was burnt to death when his house was gutted by fire, on Saturday. The dead man was Alexander Boyd Cochrane, 82, of…

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Burning Fatality at Crescent Head

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 23 August 1946 · page 6

An old man was burnt to death when his house was gutted by fire, on Saturday. The dead man was Alexander Boyd Cochrane, 82, of,…

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Poisoning Fatality

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 August 1946 · page 2

Mr. Harold Hope, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hope, of Toorooka, met his death with shocking and tragic suddenness on Tuesday. During the…

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