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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Burning Fatality

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

Mrs. Sarah Helen Anderson, wife of Mr. Thomas Anderson farmer, of Wallerooble, died in a private hospital at Coolamon on Christmas Day as a result of burns…

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Motorist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

My W. Campbell, of Moree, who is spending, a holiday at West Maitland, was cranking a motor car up yesterday, when the engine "kicked,"…

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Motor Car and Cycle Collision at Parramatta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 2

Sylvan John Foster (17), of Lidcombe, had a narrow escape form serious injury, when, riding a cycle along Church street, Parramatta, he collided…

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Two Injured. Motor Cycle Smash. Crashed Into Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

Two men were injured, one seriously, when a motor cycle and side-car crashed into the side of a bridge on the Western Road (says) a Penrith…

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Picnickers Injured.. Motor Lorry Overturns. Brakes Fail to Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

A motor lorry, carrying twenty [?]ng picnickers to Manly and [?]rabeen, bounded out of control in Eaton-street. North Sydney, on…

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Colliery Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

The jury impanelled to inquire into the death of Robert Widdow field, the miner, who was fatally injured by a fall of stone and coal in…

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Two Injured. Motors Collide at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 3

As a result of a collision between two motor cars that occurred on Friday afternoon, at the intersection of Tudor and Beaumont street, Mrs, A. E…

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Lorry Smash. Boy Fatally Injured Brakes Fail

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 2

Arthur H. Scattergood, H. of South Campbelltown who was injured in a motor smash at Devil's Elbow Bulli Pass, on New Year's Eve, has died at…

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Boys and a Gun Two Injured. (By Telegraph.) Maryborough (Q.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 2

Three brothers named Nofke, aged eight, five, and, 10 respectively, found a breach-loading gun in a house. While one named Leslie was holding the…

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Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 4

An accident happened to a motor car on the Newcastle-road last everting. When on the Maitland side of the Ashtonlields railway crossing, it…

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Children Drowned. at Lidcombe and Pyrmont

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

George Page, aged 10, of Lidcombe, was drowned in the local paths on Saturday afternoon. He had been playing with a number of other boys,…

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Seriously Injured. by Falling Tree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

When sawing a tree in a gully near the Woronora River on Saturday, Thomas Gensage, aged 20, was struck by a falling limb, and…

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Detonators Explode Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

While Mr. P. Hunter (officer in charge) and Mr. G. Marland (inspector) were burning papers and rubbish in an iron copper-stand at the rear of the…

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Fatally Injured. Capsize of Motor Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 3

The blowing out of a tyre caused the capsize of a motor car in Ninth-street, Bowden (S.A.). Mr. Charles W. Clarke, a resident…

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Swagmen Drowned. Cloudburst at Orange. Third Man Escapes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 2

Two swagmen were drowned and a third had a narrow escape as a result for a terrific cloudburst over Orange on Saturday…

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Charged by Bull. Man Injured at Orange

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

While J. M. Oliver was endeavouring to turn a bull out of a paddock at Orange, the animal charged him, breaking two of his ribs and inflicting…

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Three Injured. Motor Cycle and Side Car Capsize

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

Three vouths were injured when a motor cycle and side-car capsized on the Western Road, Prospect, early on Sunday…

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Cars Collide. Smash at Neutral Bay. Woman Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

When two motor cars collided at Neutral Bay last night, the occupants of one, Mrs. Abel and her young son, were thrown to the roadway…

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Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4

Mr. Trevor Thomas, 'Telaran' who was accompanied by his brother (Mr. L. Thomas) and sister (Miss B. Thomas) was driving a motor car…

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Motor Accidents. Bus Bumps Into Post. Cars Collide. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 4

On Saturday one of the large motor buses plying for hire between Cessnock and Kurri Kurri crashed into one o[?] the electric light poles on Maitland…

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