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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1921

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Boating Fatality. Drowned Off Long Reef

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 11

A fatal boating accident occurred off Long Reef, Collaroy. on Sunday. Leslie Laney and William Baker left Manly on Christmas night in a small…

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The Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 4

Dragging operations in connection with the Raymond Terrance motor fatality were continued throughout yesterday afternoon, in the search for the…

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Drowned at Taree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 4

[?] Taree correspondent wires that a boy named Frank Leonard, 12 years of age. eldest son of Sergeant Leonard of the Taree police station, was…

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Drowning Fatalities at Richmond Vale and Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 8

An inquest was held an Kurri Kurri Courthouse by Mr. G. brown, coroner con[?] the death of William [?], a school boy, who was drowned…

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Hacked with Cutlass Indian Woman Seriously Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 3

News has been received at Suva (Fiji) from Ba that an Indian woman named Thadi Rathnamma, wife of a sirdar of the tramway gang, had been…

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Fewer Electrical Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 6

One of the most remarkable Industrial effects of the war, so far as Gt. Britain is concerned, was the doubling of the output of the public electric…

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Injured by Falling Tree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1921 · page 5

Miss Gillespie and a lady friend were sitting under a tree at Kogarah when the tree was blown down by the wind. The former received…

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Motor Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 January 1921 · page 2

Verlie Baggs, 10 years of age, was struck and run over by a motor car at Hexham on Saturday. The child, whose parents, Mr. and J. Baggs,…

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Motor Car Fatality Three Persons Drowned

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

Between 4.30 and 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon a shocking motor accident occurred on the Miller's Forest punt at Kaymond Terrace, resulting in…

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Sad Drowning Case

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

The Coroner, (Mr. Swaddling) also conducted an Inquiry os to the cause of death of Malachi Richard Jeans, who was drowned whilst…

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Telegraphic News Terrible Railway Fatality. Shipping Strike to Continue. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

Four people were run down by a train near Woy railway station last night and killed their named being Wilmot Roughley Mrs…

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Shocking Fatality. Four Persons Killed. Run Down by Train at Woy Woy. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 5

A shocking fatality occurred at Woy Woy last night. It appears that Mr. Wilmot Roughley, of Dural. Mrs. Victor McKenzic, of Gosford, the latter's…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

A party, comprising Mr. Wilmott Roughley, of Dural, Mrs. Victor McKenzie of Gosford, arid her children, Harold, aged 9, Glady's, aged 2½,…

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The Colliery Accident. Coroner's Inquiry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

On Tuesday, the 28th. ultimo, the adjourned inquiry as to the cause of the death of Benjamin James Coulson, one of the victims of the recent…

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Musweilbrook colliery Accident. the Inquest

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

The adjourned inquiry as to the cause of the death of Benjamin James Coulson, one of the victims of the recent colliery accident was…

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Boating Tragedy. Two Persons Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 6

A tragedy followed the seas-ickness of a man in a boat at Inverloch(Vic.) on the coast during the holidays. There men were out in a boat, when…

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Creek Tragedy. Mother and Children Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 2

On New Year's Day a tragedy was reported from Orroroo (S.A.). Fred Marshall with his wife and three children drove to the Walloway…

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Deaths by Drowning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 5

The Newtown pollen were notified this morning that a young boy and a girl had been drowned in Spears' brick pir St. Peters. The pit is said to be sixty…

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Tram and Motor Collision Three Lives Lost

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 4

A shocking collision between a moter car and a steam tram, head on, occurred on Lennox Bridge, Parramatts, a little after 5 p.m. on Monday, three lives…

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Three Girls Drowned Family Swept Into Stream

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 3

Mr. A, E. Swltzer, owner of Cum Creek grazing farm, in the Charleviie dlstrial (Q). was with his wife and Camlly, driving into Charlevitle and…

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