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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

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Police Disperse Mobs Eighty Miners Injured Pickets Flee Before Batons Mass Picketing Law Enforced

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A mob of 2,500 men who marched from Cessnock to Abermain No. 2 colliery was broken up by a baton charge by 100 police, acting under the Government's scheme of action to enforce the Mass Picketing…

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Fatal Accident Pinned Under Car Chest Crushed

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 6

Ralph Dorrington (34), farmer, of McKee's Hill, died last evening 15 minutes after admission to Lismore District Hospital, from injuries…

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Injured Cattle

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

At the November meeting of the board two claims for compensation were recommended to the commission for payment, one from Law and…

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Motor Fatality Near Lismore

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

Ralph Dorrington (aged 34 years), farmer, of M'Kee's Hill, died from injuries received in a motor ear accident on Wednesday, three miles from…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Police Court Charges

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

At the Casino police court on Tuesday before Mr. E. A. Chapman P.M. there was a further sequel to the motor cycle smash on the Kyogle Road…

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General News Town and District Matters Motoring Fatality

Northern Star · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

An inquest in connection with the death of Mr. R. H. Dorrington, killed on Wednesday last in a motor accident on the Lismore-Coraki road, will be…

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Street Fighting. Five Killed; Hundreds Injured Riots in Germany

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

Five persons have been killed and hundreds injured as the result of street fighting between police and unemployed, the latter…

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Car Overturned Local Resident Fatally Injured

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 5

Mr. Ralph H. Dorrington, of McKee's Hill, who for 15 years has been a resident of this district, and was widely known and respected, met with…

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Like Movie Stunt Workman's Sensational Accident Girder Crashes

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.--When a girder on which he was riding 130 feet above the ground fell to-day, William Thompson (29), of Sandringham,…

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Double Drowning Hunter River Tragedy West Maitland

Northern Star · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 6

When Alice Mary Ryan (26) got into difficulties in the Hunter River at Flannagan's Beach, Morpeth, yesterday afternoon, Richard William Watson…

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Speed Boat Tragedy Grafton Man Drowned GEAFTON

Northern Star · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 6

Just after 7 o'clock to-night the speed boat Seahorse, owned and driven by Spencer Bernard Keough, manager of Murray's, Limited, of…

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Accidental Death

Northern Star · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 6

The coroner, Mr. A. E. Chapman, P.M., conducted an inquest at Lismore Court House on Saturday into the death of Ralph Harcourt Dorrington…

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Drowned in Weir Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 5

While walking along the lower part of Mildura weir in the Murray River yesterday, George Lewis Tindall (25) slipped and 'was carried beneath a…

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Drank Cattle Spray. Fatality at Coolangatta

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 1

James O'Brien (aged 71 years) died at Coolangatta on Tuesday morning as a result of drinking some cattle spray solution which contained…

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Girl Fatally Injured. Joke Ends Disastrously

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

An unusual accident, with serious consequences for a young woman, happened at Chermside (Brisbane) on Thursday. According to the report of…

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Jockey Injured Clarence's Fall at Moorefield

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--When J. Trapp returned to the saddling paddock after falling off Clarence, at Moorefield, on Saturday, it was thought he was not…

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Buried to the Neck. Man Seriously Injured

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday. -- James Dowling, aged 32, was severely injured this morning when about a ton of earth fell in a trench at Alexandria,…

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Collided with Horse Motor Cyclist and Girl Injured

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.--Kenneth Kessop (18) and Miss Connie Hogarty (18) were found lying on Lane Cove Road at Asquith late last night in an…

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With Mawson in Antarctica 'Plane Injured By Falling Ice (All Rights Reserved)

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 4

CANBERRA, Sunday.--The following wireless message, dated January 10, has been received from Sir Douglas Mawson on board…

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Amazing Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

Harry Raymond, a boy of 10, met with a severe injury in an amazing fashion on Wednesday night. He was standing on the running board of a…

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