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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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Injured While Playing

Northern Star · Monday 26 June 1944 · page 4

Ian Mclntyre Winter (9), of 48 Casino Street, South Lismore, received a lacerated wound to his throat when he fell on a rusty bolt…

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Accident Green Pigeon Man Injured

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 1

Mr E. Brown, who is employed drawing logs to the Green Pigeon sawmill, suffered injuries to his foot when he fell and the jinker and a…

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Bentley Woman in Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 5

Audrey Ball (20), of Bentley, was admitted to the Casino Memorial Hospital on Sunday suffering from a lacerated wound to the right side of…

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Coincidence in Accidents

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 27 June 1944 · page 1

Stranger accidents than this might have happened, but if they did, they are rare. Last Saturday week, young Bill…

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Banana Worker Injured

Tweed Daily · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon, Raymond Lewthaite, a banana worker of Upper Burringbar, while sending tins of fertiliser up on a banana…

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Four Dead From Road Accident

Tweed Daily · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 2

TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.-- Three service women and one service man are dead as a result af a collision between two motor…

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Tree Felling Accident

Northern Star · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 4

BYRON BAY, Thursday.—Mr. Roger Legge, of. Murwillumbah, a sleeper hauler, narrowly escaped serious injury when felling a tree…

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Racehorse Injured

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY. Friday: When he pulled away from his stall and fell under a rail at Randwick this morning, Veil Malt, second reserve…

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Four Die After Collision

Northern Star · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Friday. —Three servicewomen and one serviceman are dead as the result of a collision between two motor vehicles…

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Injured at Football

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 2

While playing football on Knox Park yesterday afternoon, Beric Winterbon (13), son of the Mayor and Mayoress of Murwillumbah…

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Veil Malt Injured

Northern Star · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — When he pulled away from his stall and fell under a rail at Randwiek this morning, Veil Malt, second reserve…

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Tree Felling Accident

Tweed Daily · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 2

Roger Legge, of Murwillumbah, a sleeper hauler, narrowly escaped serious injury when felling a tree recently in Whian Forest. The tree…

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Child Falls 22ft.; Badly Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 2

About noon yesterday Betty Smith, five-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs C. H. Smith, of Burringbar, while playing at her…

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Auction Injured

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday. — While exercising at Albion Park this morning Auction, Brisbane champion sprinter, suddenly swerved and…

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Thrown Out of Sulky Tooloom Man Injured

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 4

Mr Harry Marsden, an employee of the Tick Department, stationed at Tooloom, is at present an inmate of the Urbenville Hospital, where he is…

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Alleged Failure To Stop After Accident

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 5

By consent, the hearing of a charge against Norman Oswald Arthur alleging that he failed to stop after an accident in Union…

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Flt.-sgt. Bracken Killed in Plane Accident

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 4

Advice was received in Lismore yesterday that Flight Sergeant John William Bracken (R.A.A.F.), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard…

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Little Things Cause Accidents (Iissued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 5

On, I'm too busy—I can't be bothered with little things like that." Like what? Little things which cause road accidents…

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Injured in Fall

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 2

Miss Violet Bruhn, who was staying at Eviron with Mr and Mrs L. T. Taylor, was admitted to hospital at Murwillumbah yesterday following an injury received…

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Local and General Killed in Plane Accident

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 2

Advice was received in Lismore on Monday that Flight-Sergeant John William Bracken, RAAF, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Richard…

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