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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Boy Injured. Alleged Callousness. of Motor Driver

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 11

Great callousness is alleged to have been shown by a motorist, whose car knocked down and ran over a little boy in Liverpool Road, Ashfield…

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Five Injured. Motor Car Crash. Steering Gear Fails

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 14

As a result of the steering gear locking, a motor car got out of control, on Windsor-road, late on Sunday afternoon. It careered wildly…

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Newcastle Accidents Struck by Tram

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 14

Alfred L. Ellevesen, 22, a labourer, residing at Wallsend, sustained contusions an abrasions to his back, and suffered badly from shock through…

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Train Accident. Trucks Turn Turtle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 14

A serious accident was narrowly averted on 1st inst. near Carrathool. When the Hay train was 15 miles…

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Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 4

The Maitland Motor Ambulance received a call to North Rothbury yesterday afternoon to a surgical case. On the journey out, they…

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Fatal Burning Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 7

A fatal burning accident occurred at Jindera, near Albury, as a result of which Mrs. Arthur Nation died in the Albury District Hospital on Thursday…

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Three Injured. Tram and Cart Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 4

On Saturday night a tram came into collision with an ice-cart in New South Head Road, with the result that two men and a boy were…

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Fatally Injured. Struck by Locomotive. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 5

Ernest Alfred Black, 'bus proprictor, was crossing the railway line at Waitara late on Saturday night, when he was struck by a locomotive and…

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Fall of Stone. Fatal Mining Accident. the Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 6

An Inquest on the death of Leonard Phillip Hill, who was fatally injured by a fall of stone while working in the Lupton Park Colliery…

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Accident at South Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 4

This morning at 7.30 a.m., the Maitland Motor Ambulance Transport Brigade received a call to South Greta Colliery, where Alfred Ireland,…

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Harbour Collision a Passenger Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon a collision at the entrance to Sydney Cove, between two of the Sydney Ferries steamers, occasioned some excitement on the…

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Recent Level Crossing Accident. Secrecy Alleged

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 1

Recently a boy was injured on the railway at a level crossing at Muswellbrook, and the occurrence is now the subject of a departmental inquiry…

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The Late Lew Hill Inquest Held. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 4

Mr. R. N. Lochhead, District Coroner at Scone (in the absence of the Muswellbrook District Coroner, Mr. A. W. Swaddling), held an inquiry…

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Railway Accident. Muswellbrook Level Crossing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 3

recently a boy was injured on the railway at a level erasing at Muswellbrook, and the accident is now the subject of a departmental inquiry by…

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Accident at East Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 4

Norman E. Chamberlain, 30. residing in Elizabath-street, Telarah, and employed at the East Grata Junction workshops, met with a…

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Accident at Kurri

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 4

Lawrence Grant was seriously injured at Kurri Kurri on Saturday morning through the explosion of a welding plant on which he was…

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Serious Accident Lad in Serious Condition

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 5

A lad, 16 years of age, named William Hunter, residing with his parents in Cessnoel Street, Aberdare, was admitted to the Cessnock District…

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Taxi Crashes. Three Passengers Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 5

Three men were injured in a motor smash at La Perouse carly to-day. When attempting to avoid a collision with another car, a taxi driver pulled…

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Accident, to Butcher

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 4

Leslie Cornell, a butcher, aged 21, employed by Mr. Reg. Pomfrett, of High-street, West Maitland, had the first joint of the middle finger of the…

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Accident at Pelaw-main. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1924 · page 5

Richard Neild, also known as and Ross, and James Monks, two minors, were [?]aught by a hill front the tops in Pelaw-Main Colliery to-day…

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