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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Claim for Damages. Farmer Sues Commissioners. Injured in Train Smash. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 5

In December 1923, Stanley Mallinson, a farmer on the South Coast was driving a horse and sulky between [?] and Albion Park, when…

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Painfully Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 4

While unloading bales of hay at Morpeth yesterday, Mr. Samuel Stephens, a Phoenix Park farmer, was crushed between two bales, and…

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Miner Injured. Accident at South Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 5

James Poole, aged 53, a married man, living at Farley and employed as a miner in South Great ColHery, was injured this afternoon…

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The Scone Railway Fatality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 2

The "Scone Advocate," publishes the following account of the railway crossing fatality (briefly referred to in our last issue) which occurred on…

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Surf Bather Drowned Victim's Despairing Cry

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 2

Ernest Hayes, aged 20, of Beecroft, was drowned at Collaroy on Sunday afternoon. Five youths from Pennant Hills and…

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Scaffolding Collapses Two Men Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 1

Mr Charles Tipping, a well-known business man, met with a serious accident at Penrith. He was standing on a scaffolding directing building…

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Two Injured. Capsize of Motor Lorry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 2

A Ford motor lorry, controlling Mr. Henry T. Johnston, his wife, two sons, and daughter, of Spurway street, Dundas, on descending to Bulli become…

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Expensive Bump Motor Car and Bus Sequel To Recent Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 5

In the Cessnock Police Court this morning, before Mr. T. M. Cohen, P.M., Herbert Fitzgerald was charged with driving a motor car in Harris…

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Accidentally Shot

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon Reginald Jones, 16 years of age, son of Mr. James Jones, of Bellbird, was walking along the road carryin a loaded un…

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Damages Awarded. Train and Sulky Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 March 1925 · page 2

The case in which Stanley Mattieson, of Yalla, near Albion Park, claimed £2000 compensation from the Railway Commissioners, in…

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Gun Accident, Youth Dies From Injuries. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 March 1925 · page 4

Regmaid Jones, the youth who was accidentally shot in the forearm on Saturday died in Cessnock Hospital yesterday. He stumbled over a log,…

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Motor Accident. Car Smashes Into Fence. Occupants' Lucky Escape. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 March 1925 · page 5

A motor car accident occured on the Maitland to Kurri Kurri-road last night, in which Mr. Hugh McFadden, of Kurri, and two other…

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Boy Wounded. Pea Rifle Accident. Bullett in Base of Skull. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 March 1925 · page 5

James Elridge, 15, was playing with his brother Will, aged seventeen, with a [?] rifle at Young yesterday. James pulled the trigger, but the…

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Shooting Fatality Lad's Untimely End

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 7

The shooting accident which occurred last Sunday (reported in Tuesday's "Eagle") unfortunately had a fatal ending, for the victim, Reginald…

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One Killed. Four Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 7

A guard was killed and four workmen injured as the result of a railway accident in a shallow cutting on the new Opunake railway line (N.Z.)…

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Shooting Fatality. Boy’s Arm Blown Away

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 5

While several boys were [?] shooting in the [?] Bellbird last Sunday afternoon Reginald Jones, 16yrs of age and a son of Mr. James Jones,…

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Miner Injured by Fall of Coal

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 4

While working on the afternoon shift [?] Aberdare South Colliery last Friday a [?] named Frank [?] was injured by a [?] of coal. He…

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Savaged By Pig Young Man Badly Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 4

Mr. Theo. Poulton, who is employed by Mr. Garnet Kesby on his farm at Millbank, on Monday went close to losing his life as a result…

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Motor Accident at Bulli

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 4

Mr. and Mrs. H.T. Johnston, who were injured in a sensational motor smash at Bulli recently are the parents of Mrs. A. Coller, of…

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Miner Injured. Accident at South Greta

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1925 · page 16

James Poole, aged 53. a married man, living at Farley, and employed as a miner in South Greta Colliery, was injured on Tuesday…

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