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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Injured on Boat Loud Applause Destroyed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday:--Loud Applause, which was raced by the late Mr. L. Moss, and was subsequently sold to go to India. was…

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Accident Sequel Improvement Works Requested

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 9

At last night's meeting of the Lismore Municipal Council reference was made to an accident suffered by a small boy in the Orion-street…

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Actor's Death Accidental, Says Father London

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 9

Dr. Peter Vosper, father of the noted playwright and stage and film actor, Frank Vosper, who disappeared from the liner Paris between New York and…

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Schoolboy Injured

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 4

When returning home from Mullumbimby District Rural School on Monday afternoon, Llewellyn Jones, who was riding a bicycle, was struck…

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Man Killed; Two Injured Tragic Car Smash

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: -- One man was killed and two others injured, one seriously, when a sedan car skidded 50 yards, turned…

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Jockeys Injured Mishaps on Track at Ascot

Tweed Daily · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday:--Brown Bread, while working on the sand track at Ascot this morning,took fright and threw Mattie Duignan…

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Darwin Ravaged by Terrific Cyclone Damage Estimated at £100,000 One Dead; Hundreds Injured Houses Lifted and Smashed to Pieces

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

DARWIN, Thursday.-- Darwin is in a state of chaos following a terrific cyclone which swept the town late last night and this morning, causing damage estimated at £100,000. One aborigine is dead and a number of…

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Car and Truck in Collision

Northern Star · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 10

When a utility truck owned by Mr. C. Gower, of Lismore, and sedan car owned by Prager and Co., of Sydney, collided at the intersection of Little…

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Infant Drowned Mother Rescued SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 7

A seven-months-old infant was drowned in a well at Thirlmere, five miles from Picton, this evening, and the mother of the child was…

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Pedestrians Largely Responsible Traffic Accidents

Northern Star · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 5

Figures recently issued in the report of the USA. Bureau of Motor Vehicles deal with accidents to pedestrians in the State of New…

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Man Killed Youth Critically Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday:--A man who has not been identified [?] killed, and a youth whose name [?] still unknown injured, when the [?] cycle on…

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Cars Collide Nine Persons Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 6

SYDNEY, Saturday:--Nine persons were injured this afternoon when two cars collided at the corner of Coogee Bay and Carrington Roads Coogee…

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Man Drowned Was Swimming in Flooded Greek

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 4

MACKAY, Sunday:-- John Smythe (21), sugar mill tramway employee, of Racecourse Mill, was drowned in Sandy Creek at Homebush this…

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Collision in Sydney Harbor Ferry Steamer and Launch

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday;--When the ferry steamer Crane II. and a 19ft. fishing launch, the Kiaora, collided in Sydney Harbor to-day, the launch was…

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Paying for Accidents in England Generosity in the Courts

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 2

Insurance companies operating in Britain are gravely concerned at the heavy sums being awarded by the Courts in respect of road…

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"Pure Accident" Magistrate's Decision on Vosper's Death

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 8

LE HAVRE, Saturday: -- After interviewing Miss Muriel Oxford, and hearing statements in connection with the disappearance of…

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Tragic End to Picnic N.z. Cricketer Drowned Dinghy Swamped by Wave

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Monday:--A tragic end to a cricketers' outing to Murray's Bay occurred last night when Edward J. Dunning…

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After the Ski-ing Accident

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 8

"What do you think of that? The doctor drew the mountains but I put in the sun and the cow."…

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Boy Injured Street Collision in Hospital

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 6

Jack Minahan (16), of Union-street, South Lismore, was admitted to Lismore Base Hospital last night suffering…

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'Plane in Spin Cause of Fatality MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

After Investigating the aeroplane crash at Essendon on January 30 in which Fred Wridgway (27), aircraft engineer, and Ian Mackenzie, law…

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