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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Fireman Injured Brisbane [?]Laze £2,000 Outbreak in Queen Street

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sunday:-- Crashing, through the roof to the floor of a dance hall, about 20-feet below, at the height of a blaze which threatened to…

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Casino Accidents

Northern Star · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 4

Joyce Cook jumped • off the verandah on to a gaiden rake at her home in Wheat-sweet, Casino, ou Thursday and sustained, a lacerated…

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Farmer Drowned Caught by Undertow Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

While bathing off the rocks near Lorne, Michael Dolan (38), farmer, was drowned. His body was caught in the undertow and swept some distance…

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Painful Accident

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

Mr. F. J. Budd, of Murwillumbah, who is at present holidaying at Tweed Heads, met with a painful accident on Sunday morning through a stake…

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Heavy Deathroll Motor Accidents in N.Z.

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday:--The last week-end of the holidays saw a heavy death-roll from, motor accidents. A car crashed through bridge railings…

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Remarkable Series of Smashes on Mountain Road Five Cars Wrecked; Four Persons Injured

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday:--A family of five hung perilously in a motor car caught in a tree on the lip of a 200 feet precipice till rescued by…

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Peculiar Car Accident

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

During blinding rain and a hailstorm between Uralla and Tamworth a motor car containing five passengers caught fire, and, striking a rock on…

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Rider Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

Bruce Turnbull, of Pine-street, North Lismore, sustained a probable fracture of the right collarbone when the horse ho was riding fell with him last…

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Linesman Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

Charles J. Sherman, senior linesman in the employ of the Postal Department and living at Bangalow, sustained a severe wound on the right…

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Accidental Death Lorry Fatality the North Creek Tragedy

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

Mr. A. R. Best, coroner of Ballina, held an inquest yesterday into tne circumstances of the death of Mrs.(bell Beatrice Deal, which occurred on…

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Jockeys Injured Crash in Hurdle Trial SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 6

Two horses crashed during a hurdle trial at Randwick this morning and the jockeys were injured. Dal Lad (A. Pearce) ran off and collided with…

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Fatal Lorry Accident

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 2

When a motor lorry which he was driving ran over a steep cutting in the Rathdownie district on Thursday, Mr. Edward Whittall, for 20 years a…

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Tweed Woman Accidentally Shot

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 4

Injured by a bullet from a pea-rifle accidentally discharged, Mrs. C. J. Murray, of Eungella, has been admitted to Newbrae Private Hospital,…

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Motor Notes Reducing Accidents to a Minimum

Northern Star · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 8

Traffic experts and analysts of statistics have long sought to define which are the chief underlying causes of road accidents, and as a result many helpful…

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Arm Shattered Accident With Gun GRAFTON

Northern Star · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 12

Whilst, shooting crows this morning a rifle held by Thomas Colnan, of Chatsworth, exploded and shattered his left arm. The patient was conveyed to…

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Bride Drowned Honeymoon Tragedy HOBABT

Northern Star · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

Further details of the tragic drowning of Mrs. Marjorie McAulay, 27, while bathing in the Shannon River, show that she was drawn with great…

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Girl Drowned Swept Away by Current

Tweed Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday:--While swimming near the mouth of the Pine River this afternoon Ruth Wilde (10), of the Valley, was carried away by the current…

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Cars Collide Three Children Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday:--When a car driven by Leslie M'Kay, of Drummoyne, collided with another car at the corner of Mullins and Beattie…

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From Devil's Isle Twelve Fugitives Six Were Drowned

Northern Star · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 9

Graphic and dramatic stories of the terrible experiences undergone by 12 convicts who escaped from Devil's Isle, the French penal settlement on…

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Plumbers Injured. Fall From Building. Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 2

G. S. Seymour and J. J. Berg, plumbers, overbalanced while on the roo fof a gun mounting shop at Garden Island, and were precipitated…

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