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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

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Injured in Fall From Bicycle

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 July 1944 · page 4

Shirley Metcalfe (7), daughter of Mr. L. Metcalfe, of Terania Street. North Lismore, suffered severe lacerations and confusions to her…

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Airman Injured In Rugby League Game

Northern Star · Monday 31 July 1944 · page 4

An R.A.A.F. air crew member, L.A.C. E. W. Bradley, suffered a compound fracture of his left f[?]earm when he was tackled…

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Canecutter Injured

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 August 1944 · page 4

Earle Napper a canecutter, of Teven, suffered a large [?]ised wound to his left foot at work yesterday. Lismore District…

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Nine Injured in Bus Crash

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 August 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday. — When the steering gear of a 'bus failed in Marion Street, Bankstown. early to-day. it crashed into another…

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Casino Accidents

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1944 · page 5
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Russell Hollyman (16) had the great toe of his right foot almost severed when a sheet of corrugated iron fell on it at Swift's Plumbing…

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Rommel Injured

Northern Star · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (AAP): The official German Newsagency…

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Two Killed in Car Accident

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday: A fireman, Reginald Menzies (20), of South Brisbane, and a soldier were killed, land two other soldiers…

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Mullumbimby Accidents

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 2

When he slipped and fell down steps at the house in which he was staying at Mullumbimby, Russell Patch, a soldier on leave from a…

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Accidents at Mullumbimby

Northern Star · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

MULLUMBIMBY, Thursday. — When he slipped and fell down some steps at the house at which he was staying, Russell Patch, a soldier on…

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Boy's Arm Injured

Northern Star · Saturday 5 August 1944 · page 4

Taking a tyre off a rim at a Lismore vulcanising works where he is employed, Alfred Vidle[?] sustained a lacerated wound to his left…

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Australian Missionary and His Wife Drowned

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Monday: The Calcutta correspondent of The Times says;. The Rev. J. C. Moore and Mrs. Moore, of the Australian…

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Brothers Injured in Separate Accidents

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 August 1944 · page 4

KYOGLE, Tuesday.—Melvyn (3) and Royce (11), sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. Kilmurray, of Kyogle, suffered minor injuries in two…

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Spine, Ribs Fractured In Motor Accident

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 August 1944 · page 4

CASINO, Tuesday.—When the steering of the light utility truck he was driving on the Yorklea Road to-day, a few miles out of Casino,…

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Accident Sequel Man Fined For Driving Without Light

Northern Star · Friday 11 August 1944 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday. — Charged before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions today with having driven a motor vehicle…

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Currumbin Accident

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 August 1944 · page 2

As a result of being thrown from a bolting horse on Friday afternoon at Currumbin Creek, Trevor Armstrong' (13) sustained a…

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Fijians Drowned in Storm

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 16 August 1944 · page 5

SUVA, Tuesday: During a storm on Friday a sailing cutting with 24 Fijians aboard, [?] in the Yasawa Group in Fiji…

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Eight-Year-Old Cedar Point Boy Kept Head And Prevented Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 18 August 1944 · page 1

At eight years of age, there are not many boys who would have displayed the same coolness and resourcefulness as did young John Painter, of Cedar Point, in preventing an accident one day last week. John, only 8 years of age, was…

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Footballers Injured

Northern Star · Monday 21 August 1944 · page 4

A number of players were injured in football games at Lismore Recreation Ground on Saturday. At one time, while the Lismore…

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Local and General Injured at Football

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 August 1944 · page 2

John Hatton, a pupil of St. John's College, Woodlawn, when playing with the combined schools' football team against Endeavors at Knox…

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