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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Sleeping Sickness Fatality Terania Shire Report

Northern Star · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

A fatal case of sleeping sickness was reported to the meeting of Terania Shire Council by the Health Inspector (Mr…

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Driver Fined After Collision with Bus

Tweed Daily · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

Collision between a utility truck and a bus at Dungay resulted in the driver of the utility Kenneth Patrick…

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Locomotive Driver Injured

Northern Star · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 5

CASINO, Friday. — R. Smith, a locomotive driver employed on the railway, fell when crossing the railway line last night and…

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Girls Injured When Bicycles Collide

Northern Star · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Injuries sustained by two young girls when their cycles collided in Lismore yesterday afternoon were sufficiently serious to require their…

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Injured When Horse Ran Into Fence

Northern Star · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 4

Mr. Carl Ahrens, a married man residing at Ruthven, was injured last night when a horse he was riding ran into a fence…

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Boy Injured

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 2

Peter Rolls, son of Mr and Mrs W. Rolls, of condong, while playing at his home yesterday morning, fell on a toy tricyle and…

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Child Injured in Fall at Home

Northern Star · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 4

Robert McSweeney, aged 2, son of Mr. B. McSweeney, 87 Dawson Street, Lismore, suffered a large incised wound to the back…

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Casino Boy Drowned

Northern Star · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 4

CASINO, Monday. — Norman Townsend, of Casino, about 12 years, lost his life by drowning in the Richmond River late…

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Slaughterman Injured

Northern Star · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 4

Ronald Clarke, of 16 Cromer Street, Lismore, a filaughtermah employed by Jackson and Ward, sustained an incised wound to the…

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Boy Drowned at Casino

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 2

CASINO, Monday: Norman Townsend (12), of Casino, was drowned in the river today. Townsend was with two other…

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Accidents Caused By Running Off the Road

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 4

Evidence that care-free motorists are maintaining too high a speed for conditions on country roads, and that many are coming…

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Country Motor Accidents "Too Many By Running Off Road"

Northern Star · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 6

Evidence that care-free, motorists are maintaining too high a speed, for conditions on country roads, and that many are coming…

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Train Crew Nearly Drowned

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 5

TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—Driver Frederick Hawkes and Fireman Frederick Woods had narrow escapes from drowning when a goods…

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10 Killed and 150 Injured in Explosion

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: The Associated Press correspondent at Naples says: At least 10 were killed and 150 injured when 15…

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Fatal Fall From Horse Accidental

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 4

KYOGLE, Tuesday.—A verdict of accidental death was returned by Mr. Elsmer Jones, District Coroner at Casino, at an inquest at Kyogle…

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Youths Seriously Injured

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 2

When a motor bicycle over-turned on the Pacific Highway near Coolangatta Creek yesterday afternoon, Herbert Ellis…

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Girl's Arm Fractured in Collision

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 2

Colleen Charlton (9), suffered a fracture of the left arm above the elbow when a utility truck in which she was a…

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Accidental Death

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was returned by Mr Elsmer Jones, District Coroner at Casino, at an inquest at K[?]ogle on the death…

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R.n. Pilot Drowned

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Attempting to land on the aircraft carrier Glory, a Firefly plane crashed into the sea and the pilot,…

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Jockey Injured in Fall

Northern Star · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The leading apprentice, E. Henry, was injured in a fall at Flemington today and was sent to hospital for…

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