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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

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Man Injured Accident at the Channon

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

Mr. C. Fuller was injured at the Channon yesterday and was taken to the Lismore District Hospital suffering from internal injuries…

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Fell From Bullock Young Man Injured. Accident at Buckjumping Show at Burringbar

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

During the performance of a buck jumping show at Burringbar on Tuesday night, a young man named Joseph Cottle, while riding one of the…

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Mr. Jos. Francis Rescues Boy from Drowning. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A boy

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 2

got into difficulties while bathing in St. Kilda Baths yesterday. His plight was noticed by Mr. Josiah Francis, Nationalist member for Moreton (Q.),…

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Carriages Derailed Accident Near Sydney Station. Train Services Disorganised No One Injured. SYDNEY, Wednesday. When the

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

Sydney to Tamworth train, which left the Central Station this morning, had travelled only a few hundred yards, one of the buffers of the loading carriage…

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Arm Torn Off Dreadful Accident to Greaser on Vessel. Race for Sydney and Medical Attention

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. During the voyage of the steamer Marama, from Auckland to Sydney, S. Ramsay (19), an engine room wiper, met with a…

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Mining Accidents Attributed to Naked Lights Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 5

Mr. William Humble, formerly chief inspector of coal mines, told the Coal Commission, presided over by Mr. Justice Edmunds, that there should be no exemption to the…

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Accident at Sea Man's Arm Torn Off Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1926 · page 5

During the voyage of the steamer Marama from Auckland to Sydney S. Ramsey (19), engine room wiper, wet with a dreadful accident. He was oiling the auxiliary…

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Drowning Native Converts (Reuter.) CAPETOWN

Northern Star · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 3

The native leader Njendera and two others were sentenced to death in connection with the drowning of native converts at baptism. Njendera stated that he drowned them…

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Cyclist Terribly Injured Grafton

Northern Star · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 5

Errol Ryder, the youthful cyclist who won the half mile and mile handicap, and ran second in the mile and half event at Grafton Anniversary Day sports, sustained terrible…

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Vessel Founders After Two Days' Battle with Atlantic Storm. 25 of Crew Drowned

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 3

HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Wednesday. A wireless message from the German liner Bremen, received on Wednesday, indicated that the…

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Arm Torn Off. Frightful Accident at Sea

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 8

During the voyage of the steamer Ma[?]ama from AucKland to Sydney S. Ramsey (19), engine room wiper, met with a dreadful accident. He was [?]ling…

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Miner's Death Peculiar Queensland Accident. Pick-point enters Brain. Went ono Working. TOOWOOMBA

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 6

An accident with fatal results occurred yesterday at the Sugar Loaf Colliery, at Acland. Archibald Fletcher (44), a miner, was working at Sugar…

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What to Do. In Case of Accident

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 2

We are indebted to Mr. Flynn for the following: In case of an electric wire falling in the street, the following precantious…

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Another N.z. Drowning

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--The fourth fatality within ten days occurred on the Wanganui River, when two girls, Cecily Lay (aged 10) and…

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Recent Greenridge Fatality

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

The circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Amy Gooley, whose dead body was found in the Richmond River at Greenridge, was inquired into by…

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Two Girls Drowned

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.--Two girls, each ten years of age, Millie Dearl and Phyllis Watereus, were drowned while playing in the…

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Lad Drowned at Lismore

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 6

George Edward Freeney, aged 17, of Lismore, was drowned in the Richmond River on Tuesday. He was playing on the bank, when he fell into the…

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Boy Drowned at Lismore

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 2

George Edward Feeney, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Feeney, of Gundurimba road, South Lismore, was drowned in the Richmond River at…

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Cyclist Badly Injured

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 5

Errol Ryder, the youthful cyclist who won the half-mile and mile handicap, and ran second in the mile and a half event at Grafton on Anniversary…

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Old Man's Pluck Dives into Water Fully Clothed and Saves Child From Drowning

Tweed Daily · Saturday 30 January 1926 · page 5

PERTH,Friday. Old and tottering, Patrick Gorman an inmate of the old men's home at Clarement, pl[?]kly rescued a child from drowning to-day…

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