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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

2,051 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 103

Children Injured. Collapse of Slippery-dip. Campsie Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 6

The staging of a slippery-dip collapsed at Campsie last night, and ten children were injured. The slippery dip was one of the…

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Motor's Plunge. Fatality in New Zealand

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 16

While returning from a party at Kelburn (N.Z.) a motor car containing four people plunged down a bank and overturned…

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Three Injured. Motor Car Overturns

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 16

A motor car driven by S. Stocum of Wagga in passing another car on the Temora-road near Junee Peefs skidded into a gutter and…

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Two Injured. Motor Cycle Smash at Randwick

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 9

Two men were injured—one seriously —in a collision between two motor cycles at Randwick last night. The injured were…

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A Sad Case. Mother and Son Drowned. Coroner's Comments. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 5

At the inquest concerning the deaths of Annie Elizabeth Holland and her three-years-old, son, John Holland, who were drowned in a…

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Eight Dead Three Hundred Injured. Severe Earthquake. VANCOUVER, June 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 2

A San Francisco message states that it is reported that 65 were killed at Santa Barbara. All the brick buildings were…

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Motor Accident. Heavy Compensation Claimed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1925 · page 14

In the Banco Jury Court, on 26th. ult., Elizabeth Gallagher, aged 11 through her father, John Gnllacher, sued George Guest, claiming £1500…

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Car Fatality. Smash Into Motor Bus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1925 · page 3

A motor car and a motor omnibus collided in Sydenham road, Marrickville, on Saturday night, with the result that Charles Snedden (27), of…

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Street Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 5

A collision which occasioned some excitement, but fortunately was not attended with serious consequences occurred on Saturday forenoon at…

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Slippery-dip Collapse Several Children Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 4

A "slippery dip" collapsed at Campsie on Friday night. Ten children were injured, and three were admitted to hospital with fractured limbs. The…

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Four Injured. Cars Collide in Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 7

A moter car, containing five people, collided with a smaller car, containing only the driver, at the intersection of Flinders and Swanson Streets, on…

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Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 2

A nasty riding accident happened on the Middlebrook bridge on Saturday afternoon about 4.30, when Dorothy, the eldest daughter of Mr…

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Burning Accident to Child

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 July 1925 · page 2

Mr Len Harris, who had been liviug in the Warkworth district, lately accepted a position on Mr A; S. Pankhurst's dairy farm at Mitchells Flat,…

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Injured Motor Riders

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1925 · page 4

We have been, in[?]ormea that the £20, sanction fee given by the Hunter River Agricultural Society to the Northern District Motor Cyclists'…

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Launch Sunk. Collision at Auckland. Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1925 · page 5

The coastal steamer Wainui col[?]ded with and sunk a six-ten steam launch in the harbour early this morning. The crew was reseued…

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Newcastle Accidents. Crushed Between Cart and Pole

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1925 · page 6

Through being caught between a cart and an electric light pole in a narrow lane near Alfred-street, New-castle, Robert M'Courtle, 19, living at…

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Unlucky Youth. Chapter of Accidents. Rockhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1925 · page 5

George Cavanagh, 19, a resident of Bracewell, was driving a horse and cart yesterday, when the horse slipped. The driver was thrown out, and a…

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Injured Hand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 July 1925 · page 4

Master Roy Hancock, 16, residing in Bourke-street, West Maitland, employed as a clipper at East Greta Collieries, sustained lacerations to the…

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Motor Fatality. Driver Charged with Manslaughter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 July 1925 · page 6

The collision between a motor car and an omnibus at Marrickville on Saturday last, when Charles Robertson S[?]oddon lost his life, had a sequel…

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Tram and Lorry. Collision at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 July 1925 · page 6

A collision occurred last evening at Georgetown, between an electric train bound from Waratah for Newcastle and a lorry drawn by a motor tractor…

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