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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Replacing Injured Players

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1925 · page 7

The Commonwealth Football Association has moved in the matter of substitutes being permitted to interval during the matches of the current…

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Fatal Collision. Naval Rating Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1925 · page 7

Arthur Johnson a middle-aged married man was riding a motor cycle with side-car attached into the Flinders Naval Base at…

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Car Somersaults. Driver and Passengers Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1925 · page 6

When the steering gear in the motor car, driven by Mr. L. J. Jarvis, president of the Western Suburbs Motor Cycle Clubs, became defective as the…

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Constable Injured. Violent Struggle with Prisoners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1925 · page 2

Constable Johnston, of the Brunswick (Vic.) arrested two men on Saturday night, but one escaped in the fog. The constable got the other man to the local…

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Vigorous Football. Accidents in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1925 · page 3

When playing football at Belmore on Saturday Percival Mason, aged 18, of Mortdale, fractured his right leg and was admitted to…

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Injured in Collision Husband and Wife Awarded Damages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 June 1925 · page 3

Two actions in which negligence was charged against the Railway Commissioners were brought in No 1. Jury Court Sydney by Bertha Fargie and…

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Motor Fatality Through Bridge and Into Creek

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 June 1925 · page 3

Hilton Cerise, a land salesman, of Melbourne, was drowned on Friday afternoon, when a motor car crashed through a bridge on the…

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Damages Awarded. Rozelle Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 June 1925 · page 3

Robert William King an agent and the Railway Commissioners before Mr. Justice James in Sydney, for injuries caused to him in a tram accident at…

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Sworn in New Labour Government. Servants of the People. SYDNEY. Wednesday. Damages Claimed. Motor Cycle Collision. Father and Son Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 June 1925 · page 5

The members of the new Labour Government were sworn in this morning, and the first meeting of the new Cabinet was held immediately In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice James and a jury of four, Vincent McLean, motor bus proprietor, commenced an action against…

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Fireman Killed. Six Others Injured. Engine Crashes Into Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 June 1925 · page 6

A collision between, a fire engine and a motor car in Christchurch (N.Z.) resulted in one fireman being killed and six other firemen…

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Family Injured. Motor Car Somersaults. Remarkable Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1925 · page 2

For members of family travelling in a motor car in Randwick last night were injured when the machine struck a culvert and…

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Miner Crushed. Accident at Paxton. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1925 · page 5

Arnold Chapman, a minor, residing at Millfield, and employed at Stanford-Merthyr colliery No. 2, was yesterday badly crushed between two…

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Playing with a Gun Fatal Shooting Accident

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 June 1925 · page 4

Arnold Harcourt Morris, son of a well-known farmer on the Cadia-road, Orange, was accidentally shot dead on Sunday afternoon…

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Sensational Accident. Motor Car and House Collide

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 2

A sensational accident occurred at Gungal on Monday last, and as a result Miss Hinvest is an inmate of the Merriwa Hospital…

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Street Accidents. Menace of Pedestrians

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 2

Under the arresting title "The Menace of Pedestrians," a London daily published a very striking article recently, which, had it been…

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Cronulla Tram Accident. Compensation for Damages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 3

The plaintiff in this notion, Francis F. James Largerlow, a chainman in the employ of the City Survoyor sued the Railway Commissioners for New South…

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Injured in Collision Husband and Wife Awarded Damages

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1925 · page 16

Two actions in which negligence was charged against the Railway Commissioners were brought in No. 1 Jury Court, Sydney, by Bertha Fargic and…

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Damages Claimed. Motor Cycle Collision. Father and Son Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1925 · page 7

In the supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice James and a jury of four, Vincent McLean, motor bus proprietor, commenced an action against…

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Family Injured. Motor Car Somersaults. Remarkable Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1925 · page 5

Four members of a family travelling in a motor car in Randwick last night were injured when the machine struck a culvert and…

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Motor Fatality. Lidcombe Resident Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1925 · page 7

Wilfred Aidley a resident of Lidcombe, was crossing Parramatta-road at Burwood on Monday afternoon, whon he was knocked down by…

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