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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Third Fatality From Fall at City Hotel

Macleay Argus · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, March 21. -- The third fatality within a week at the Hotel Metropole, one of Sydney's leading hotels, occurred this morning when the body of a guest was found at the bottom of a lift well…

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Child's Death Accidental

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

The Taree District Coroner (Mr. R. V. Hough), returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on…

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Bus Accident Is Recalled

Macleay Argus · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

BOWRAVILLE: In a letter to the Nambucca Shire Council, the Traffic Department referred to a bus…

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Accidental Death Verdict on Young Motor-Cyclist

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner (Mr. R. V. Hough) at an inquiry into the…

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Leg Injured Whilst Unloading Truck

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 4

Mr. Lawrence Chapman, of Marsh Street, sustained a severe lacerated wound whilst unloading a P.M.G…

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Mr. Bert Strutt Fatally Injured at Brisbane

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 7

Mr. Bert Strutt, 65, son of the late Mr. Robert Strutt and Mrs. Strutt, of West Kempsey, died in Brisbane…

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Coffs Harbour Car In Accident At Stuart's Point

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 4

A car load of Coffs Harbour men, coming to Kempsey to attend an Apex Club function last night, was involved in a…

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Three Macksville Men Were Injured

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 1

Messrs. Allan Unterrheiner, Ron Field and Keith Ritchie, of Macksville, were injured when a vehicle driven by…

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Six Injured When Car Leaves Road

Macleay Argus · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 1

Travelling from Sydney to Nambucca Heads for holidays, a party of three adults and three children were involved in an accident on the Pacific Highway, near Mrs. G. Trisley's homestead at W[?]rrell Creek…

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Cyclist Injured

Macleay Argus · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, March 28. -- James Leslie Field, 21, was seriously injured late this afternoon, in a collison with a…

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Injured in Fall From Bicycle

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 3

When he fell from his bicycle near the railway gates in Saturday T. E. Haugh, of Whitbread Street, Taree,…

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Child Injured in Fall From Bicycle

Macleay Argus · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 2

Marlene Maddelena, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Maddelena, of Jubilee Lane, fell from a bicycle on…

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Current Topics... Injured at Sale

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 2

Mr. Ken Boorer was injured this morning while assisting at the beef breed cattle sale at the Gloucester shire yards conducted by Tom Hicks…

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Court Sequel to Collision on Wingham Road

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 1

A lorry driver who had pleaded not guilty to a charge of negligent driving, was convicted and fined £12 by Mr. O. Lake, S.M., at Taree Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Elderly Man Injured at Knorrit Flat

The Northern Champion · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 2

An elderly man who was suffering from a probable fractured pelvis and lower abdominal injuries, was…

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Boy's Death From Riding Accident Injuries

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 3

A 14 years old boy who was injured in a riding accident at Rockville near Coneac on Tuesday morning, died in…

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Sawmiller Killed In Forest Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 2

Well known Ward's River sawmiller, Mr. Archie Joseph Fenning, 48, wan killed yesterday in a forestry accident at…

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Unusual Accident Man Hung in Chains

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 4

Mr. John Reidel, of Regent Street, was the victim of a most unusual accident on Wednesday, when the chain of a pile-hoisting plant caught him by the neck and lifted him 12 feet from the ground…

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Driver of Milk Tanker Injured in Collision

Macleay Argus · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

Mr. Cliff McKiernan, of Smithtown, who is a driver of one of the Nestle's firm's milk-tanker trucks, sustained lacerations to left eyebrow and forehead, abrasions to left leg and considerable shock…

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Two Killed and Many Injured

Macleay Argus · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY, April 4. -- To late this afternoon, the death roll from road accidents in New South Wales showed that…

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