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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

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Players Injured

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 March 1933 · page 3

Gorden Wennel fractured a leg near the ankle and T. Jackson received severe concussion during a soccer foot-ball match between Mullumbimby and…

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Boat Capsizes Man Drowned Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 4

Samuel Hancock (46), a returned soldier, was drowned at Coalcliff, on the South Coast, early this morning while in a fishing boat which…

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36 DEAD; 200 INJURED Mad March Tornado

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 4

NEW YORK, Wednesday. -- A mad March tornado lashed the Tennessee and Kentucky border from the Mississippi to the…

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36 DEAD; 200 Injured Tornado in America Nashville (Tennessee)

Northern Star · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 7

A "mad March" tornado lashed the Tennessee and Kentucky borders from Mississippi to Cumberlands on Tuesday night, leaving 36 dead and more than…

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Accidentally Shot Detective Wounded in Thigh Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 7

Detective Healy was accidentally shot in the thigh while searching for thieves who entered a building at Camperdown this morning. With…

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Collision on Bridge

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 4

A bey named Vincent Rowland (14), son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland, of Condong, and employed at Mr. A. R. Hayes' Murwillumbah smithy, while…

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Sequel to Collision Alleged Insulting Words

Northern Star · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 8

At Lismore Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., Peter Megalocomono proceeded against Nathaniel Gordon charging him with…

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Man Drowned Boat Capsized in Surf

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday:--Five hundred [?]ards from where a number of people lost their lives in a flood recently at Stanwell Park, a fisherman, Samuel…

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Boat Turns Over Angler Is Drowned Mountainous Seas Coalcliff

Northern Star · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 7

Samuel Hancock (46), of Wombarro, was drowned and Jeffrey Yonker, of Woombarra, and Harold Grant, of Clifton, narrowly…

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Damages Awarded Motor Car Accident Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 7

Before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury in the Causes Court to-day, Florence Courtenay claimed £2000 damages from Lionel Marsden for injuries…

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Accident Aftermath Small Debts Claim

Northern Star · Saturday 18 March 1933 · page 6

A motor smash on the Goolmangar road some months ago was recalled in the Lismore Police Court on Thursday, when one of the…

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Passengers Hurt 'Bus Wheel Collapsed Accident at Kunghur

Northern Star · Monday 20 March 1933 · page 4

When the front wheel of a bus collapsed one mile from the Kunghur post office at 9.30 o'clock last night several…

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Crashed Into Spectators Racing Car Five Persons Badly Injured

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday:--One of the worst accidents in the history of the race occurred to-day in the early stages of the 200-mile Grand…

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Racing Smash Car Runs Into Fence Spectators Injured Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 5

Racing in the Australian 200 miles Grand Prix at Cowes to-day, a supercharged Lombard belonging to W. H. Lowe, left…

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Bus Accident Close Call for Excursionists

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 3

While descending a steep hill near Kunghur, 12 miles from Nimbin, about 9.30 o'clock on Sunday night, Mr. Ric Eastway's bus, with a load of about 30…

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Drowned on Birthday

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 March 1933 · page 2

Barbara Pauline Osborne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Osborne, of Narrandera, on Monday wandered with two playmate[?] to the Murrumbidgee…

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'Plane Accident

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 March 1933 · page 2

A Moth monoplane, piloted by Mr. Ron Adair, of Brisbane, met with a mishap at Coff's Harbour aerodrome on Monday, and was badly damaged…

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Boy Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 6

While playing near his home in Girard-street, Lismore, Ken Blenheim, a son of. Mr. and Mrs. J. Blenheim, fell and dislocated his left elbow…

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Lismore Man Drowned Brisbane

Northern Star · Thursday 23 March 1933 · page 5

While swimming in Washpool waterhole, 42 miles from Blackall,.Raymond Jones (34), a native of Lismore, disap po.ared and the body was recovered by…

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Six Drowned Floods in Argentine Buenos Aires

Northern Star · Friday 24 March 1933 · page 6

Floods to-day caused the death of six persons. Fifteen are reported missThere Avas heavy danuigo to crops and losses of livestock in the affected…

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