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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Two Injured in Train Collision

Northern Star · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Friday.—Two men were slightly injured, two locomotives seriously damaged, 13 trucks seriously damaged and 30 sheep…

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Schoolboy Injured

Northern Star · Saturday 18 April 1942 · page 4

When he fell at the Public School in Lismore yesterday Edward James Jorgensen (12), son of Mr N V Jorgensen, a farmer, of…

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11 Drowned in Week in Nz

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 April 1942 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Sunday: Eleven people were drowned in New Zealand last week. Two men lost their lives when a…

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Airman Injured Lorry Left on Roadside

Northern Star · Monday 20 April 1942 · page 4

Leading Aircraftman Jordison, of Evans Head, received lacerations to the left side of his face, concussion and contusions to his knee when a…

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Lorry Driver Injured

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 4

When a truck loaded with produce overturned on the Gundurimba road last night the driver, William Burns, of 347 Forest Rd.,…

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11 Drowned in Week in N. Zealand

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 5

AUCKLAND. -- Eleven people were drowned last week in New Zealand -- one of the worst weeks for drownings in the Dominion's history…

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Arm and Leg Injured

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 4

CASINO, Tuesday—As the result of falling at her residence. 14 Centre-st, Casino. Mrs Sarah Annie Skinner (81) suffered a…

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Two Killed in Mine Accident

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 1

BURNIE, Tuesday.—Two married miners were killed when they were buried under a fall of earth at the Prince Lyell Open Cut mine today…

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Soldier Drowned at Newcastle

Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—Sapper J Ryan, attached to a northern camp, was drowned in the surf at Newcaste beach this…

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Accidental Death at Level Crossing

Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 4

GRAFTON, Wednesday.—A finding that Berthold Hermann William Schaeffer, 56, laundry proprietor, of Grafton, died from the…

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Two Injured in Collision

Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday.—As a result of a collision between a car and a truck on the Lawrence road two and a half miles from…

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£2094 Damages Awarded Fatality in Motor Collision

Northern Star · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A Dorothy Mavis Beasley, of Werclaim for £10,000 damages by ridee, and Thomas Beasley,…

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Injured in Fall

Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 4

When she slipped and fell in the backyard at her home yesterday afternoon Betty Everson (15), granddaughter of Mr G Quirk, of…

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50 Injured in A-a Barrage

Northern Star · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 5

STOCKHOLM, Friday (AAP. —As a result of a fierce antiaircraft barrage put up when two waves of unidentified…

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Child Saved From Drowning

Northern Star · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 4

GRAFTON, Sunday.—The plucky act of an 11-years-old girl in wading into the Clarence River at Grafton this afternoon and polling a…

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Local and General Pearifle Accident

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 2

Ronald Akehurst, a boy residing at Doon Doon, was the victim of a pearifle accident near his home early yesterday afternoon. The lad was…

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Cycling Accidents

Northern Star · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 5

Two members of a party of cyclists returning along the Bexhill Road from Boatharbour yesterday afternoon suffered "spills" at…

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Underground Rail Crash 4 Killed, 400 Injured

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 6

NEW YORK, Sunday (AAP). —Four were killed, 400 hurt and hundreds of others trapped in a smoke filled tunnel…

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Killed In Aircraft Accident

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 4

Pilot Officer Ronald James Finch, son of Mrs C Riley, of The Rock, Condong, has been reported killed in an aircraft accident in England…

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High Accident Rate In City Brownout

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Although the Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini) has stated that there will be no alteration of the brownout conditions, Mr. Heffron, on his return from Melbourne, said that the operation of…

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