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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Leg Amputated Nurse in Tram Collision MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

When a grinder tram and a passenger tram collided head-on in Wendouree, a suburb of Ballarat, this afternoon, Miss Elizabeth Clarke…

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Car Smash Tyre Blew Out Kyogle Fatality Kyocle

Northern Star · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 10

Further inquiries regarding last night's car fatality on the Casino-Kyogle road reveal that the accident occurred near Runnymede homestead…

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Motor Cars Collide Lismore Smash Two Men Injured, One Seriously

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

Two men were injured, one seriously, when two motor cars collided at the corner of Ballina and Hunter Streets, Lismore, about…

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Two Men Killed; 19 Others Injured Forbes Mail Train DERAILED Passengers' Narrow Escape SYDNEY, Wednesday.--

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 5

The 7.55 p.m. mail train from Sydney to Forbes met disaster between Tichbourne and Varoobalgie this morning…

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Doctor's Car in Accident

Northern Star · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 7

Minor damage was done to a roadster car driven by Dr. Wilson Corlis, of Lismore, when it was involved in a collision at the intersection of Hunter, and Ballina streets, Lismore, yesterday morning. Dr. Corlis was not injured but the two occupants of the other vehicle were taken to…

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Drowned in Well. Two Little Brothers

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 5

PERTH, Thursday.--Ernest Arthur Archer (8) and Alexander Frederick Archer (6), sons of Frederick Ernest Archer, of Wattle Grove, near Perth…

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Double Tragedy Young Brothers Drowned PERTH

Northern Star · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 11

A double tragedy occurred on a dairy farm at Wattle Grove, 10 miles from here, to-day, the victims being Arthur Archer (9) and his brother, Alexander…

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Shocking Car Smash Casino Road Fatality Kyogle Resident Killed

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 4

When a sports roadster car in which they were travelling from Casino to Kyogle late on Tuesday afternoon skidded off the…

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Mother and Daughter Killed by Plane Tragic Accident in Tasmania

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 5

HOBART, Thursday.--With dramatic suddenness, two residents of Eastcourt, a tourist resort at Swansea, were killed on…

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Accident Victims

Northern Star · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 6

It was reported last night that the condition of Messrs. G. F. Walker and N. T. Thompson, who were admitted to a private hospital following…

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Slaughterman Injured

Northern Star · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 8

When the knife with which he was slaughtering a beast at Tullera yesterday slipped James Wells, a slaughterman, received a deep gash…

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Wollongbar Fireman Injured

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 4

A fireman employed on the N.C.S.N. Coy's steamer Wollongbar had two ribs broken and received severe injury to his right elbow when he fell…

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Street Collision Car and Truck

Northern Star · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 8

When a motor truck and a utility truck became interlocked in a collision yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock between the Vogue Theatre…

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Factory Worker Injured CASINO

Northern Star · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 8

When he fell eight feet from a staging on to an iron tray at the Casino butter factory yesterday F. A. Jones, of Rathaem-street, a member of the…

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Knocked Down by Car Murwillumbah Residents Injured

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 4

As he was crossing Wollumbin Street from the Austral Building about noon yesterday, Mr. J. J. Maher, of Murwillumbah, was knocked down…

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Aeroplane Crashes in Street Four Pedestrians Killed Sequel to Collision Over Munich

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 5

MUNICH, Thursday--Two single-seater military aeroplanes collided at 4,000 feet above the city. Both…

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"Live" Wire on Course [?]ockeys Injured: Horse Killed Wellington (N.z.)

Northern Star · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 9

Two jockeys were hurt and a horse killed during training operations at Parawai racecourse this morning. An electric wire carrying a high voltage…

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Accident From Falling Glass

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 February 1936 · page 4

That it is dangerous to stand in the vicinity of a recent fire was instanced yesterday morning when a number of boys were on the footpath adjacent to…

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Youth Drowned Was Weak Swimmer

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday:--Wiliam Green (18), of Erskineville, in camp with engineers at Liverpool, was drowned in George's River on Saturday Green…

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Drover Injured CASINO

Northern Star · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 6

Alan Vain, aged about 45, a drover of Mongogarie, fell from a horse he was riding at South Casino this afternoon and sustained lacerated wounds…

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