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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

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Local Serviceman On Centaur Missing, Believed Drowned

North West Champion · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 1

Included in the list of those missing, believed to be drowned, is Pte. N. A. Hodgkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hodgkinson, of Heber Street,…

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Well Known Amateur Rider Killed Boggabilla Race Fatality

The North Western Courier · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 4

The friends of Mr. Athol Hunt, grazier, of Goondiwindi, and amateur jockey, well known in the Narrabri district, will regret to…

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Accidents

North West Champion · Thursday 20 May 1943 · page 1

Last night Ald. E. Foster sustained a nasty gash over the left eye when he fell off a ladder while adjusting the entrance door at his garage and…

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Killed in Motor Cycle Accident

North West Champion · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 1

Word has been received that Cpl. Barry Stone, a former well-known Moree resident, was killed recently in a motor cycle accident at Gympie…

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28 Injured in N.Z. Tram Accident. Wellington, N.Z.

North West Champion · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 1

One person was killed and 28 injured, 17 of them seriously, when a tram left the points at a junction, skidded and fell on its side…

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Accident

North West Champion · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 1

Geoffrey Wilcox, four and a half years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Wilcox, of Queen Street, sustained a severe injury to the second finger…

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Local Accidents

The North Western Courier · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 2

Last Monday, Miss Norma Nesbitt, of Dangar Village, was hit on the head with a stone on her way home from school. The…

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Australians in Flying Fatality Durban, Wednes

The North Western Courier · Thursday 1 July 1943 · page 1

Four members of the R.A.A.F., and four members of the R.A.F. were killed in a flying accident last Friday…

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Fireman Hit by Lump of Coal Former Narrabri Resident Injured

The North Western Courier · Thursday 1 July 1943 · page 4

A lump of coal which fell from a passing goods train, crashed into the engine cabin of the Newcastle express recently, and struck…

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North West Champion · Monday 5 July 1943 · page 1

Mr. A. E. Butler received injuries to the left eye, ear and shoulder as the result of an accident at Midkin Station, where he is employed as…

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North West Champion · Thursday 8 July 1943 · page 8

Sybil Jensen, aged 11 years, of Gwydir Street, was sitting in a deck chair, when, on the chair collapsing, the second finger on the left hand…

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North West Champion · Thursday 8 July 1943 · page 8

Sybil Jensen, aged 11 years of Gwydir Street, was sitting in a deck chair, when, on the chair collapsing, the second finger on the left hand…

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North West Champion · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 1

Mr. Charles Francis, storeman at Messrs Wright, Heaton and Co's., East Moree, severely strained the muscles of his back on Saturday…

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Two Brothers Drowned. Sydney

North West Champion · Monday 2 August 1943 · page 1

When a beat in which they were playing overturned at Arncliffe yesterday. John Blakeney, 12, and William Blakeney, 11, his brother, were…

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Racial Riots In New York Six Dead—201 Injured

North West Champion · Thursday 5 August 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—The most violent racial riots in the history of New York have occurred this week in Harlem, the negro quarter. Six people have been killed and 201 have been treated at…

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Accidents

North West Champion · Thursday 26 August 1943 · page 5

Our Weemelah correspondent writes:—A nasty accident befel Mr. K. McMahon, an employee of Messrs Butler and Co., Mungindi, last…

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Struck by a Plane. Soldier Fatally Injured

North West Champion · Monday 30 August 1943 · page 1

A soldier was fatally injured and five others hurt when an aircraft crashlanded near a New South Wales Army Camp on…

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Thrown From Sulky Resident Fatally Injured

The North Western Courier · Thursday 2 September 1943 · page 8

Hubert Charles McGovern (73), of Tibbereenah, was fatally injured when he was thrown from a sulky, at…

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Ten People Injured in Explosion. Kalgoorlie

North West Champion · Thursday 9 September 1943 · page 1

Following on a dynamite explosion in a shed behind a residence and shop in Boulder yesterday, eight children and two adults were taken to hospital…

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Well-known Jockey Injured

North West Champion · Monday 13 September 1943 · page 1

Mr. Roy Waldron, the well-known jockey, was admitted to hospital yesterday morning suffering from a severe injury to his head, sustained,…

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