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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

2,459 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 123

School Teacher Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

Miss Long, a teacher at the High School, Camperdown, was washed off the rocks at the Blow-hole, Port Campbell, Melbourne, yesterday. She…

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Wheeler Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 4

While cleaning a bicycle on Saturday afternoon, J. New, 23, residing at Charles-street, West Maitland, and employed as a wheeler at…

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Fatal Collision. Youth Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

Horace Marcus Jackson, aged 16 years, of Liverpool-road, Banks- town, received shocking injuries, from which he died a few minutes…

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Boy Drowned at Bondi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

The dead body of Arthur Taylor aged 17 years, of 31 Sir Thomas Mitchell road, Bondi, was found floating in the surf at Bondi on…

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Fatal Motor Accident. One Killed, Another Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

One man was killed and another seriously injured when a motor cycle collided With a motor car in Chapel-street, Melbourne yesterday…

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Narrow Escape. Bather, Nearly Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

John Lawrence, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lawrence, of 153 Beaumont-street, Hamilton, had a narrow escape from…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Machine Skids

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

Maurice Denham, aged 20 years, of Phillip-street, Balmain, was seriously injured shortly before 6 o'clock, last evening when the motor,…

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Surf Tragedies. Three Drowned During Week-end

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 6

Carried out in the surf Narrabeen on Saturday, the Rev. Douglas T. Wilson, curate of, St. David's Church of England, Surry Hills, was…

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Cars Collide. Sydney Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1927 · page 7

Two motor-car collisions occurred at Newtown on Saturday, and five persons were injured. They were:— MARY BROWN (25), Kilbride St.,…

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Two Injured. in Tram Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 3

An electric tram crashed into the rear of another that was stationary at the intersection of St. Kilda and Commercial roads last evening…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 6

On Sunday evening Maurlee Denham, aged 20 years, of Philip-street, Balmain, was seriously injured, when the motor cycle which…

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Drowned in Darling. Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 6

Frederick Arthur Benson, aged about 47 years, employed on the steelwork in connection with the construction of the Menindic railway…

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Surf Tragedies Clergyman Drowned at Narrabeen

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 3

Carried out in the surf at Narrabeen on Saturday, the Rev. Douglas T. Wilson, curate of St. David's Church of England, Surry Hills, was drowned…

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Fatally Injured. Near Railway Line

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 3

Suffering from injuries which subsequently proved to be fatal, Phillip Raymond Hammill, aged 36 years, a baker, of Burns-street, Campsie, was…

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Electrician Fatally Injured. Macksville

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 6

On Friday evening Mr. O. T. Emery, who held the electricity franchise for Macksville, was assisting to take machinery from a lorry with the…

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Motor Vehicles Collide Youth Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 3

Shocking injuries, which subsequently proved to be fatal, were sustained by Horacc Jackson, aged 16, of Bankstown, on Sunday evening, when a motor cycle…

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Station Managers' Strange Accident. Glen Innes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 2

Mr. Hartley manager of Rocky Creek station, was riding round the run on a wet morning, when he noticed a mindmill which needed…

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The Toll of the Motor Accidents in the Country. Albury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 2

A motor collision occurred between (we cars on the Sydney Road, near the turn-off for the Hume Weir. One, driven by Cyril Arthur Wakeford, of…

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Railway Accident. Prevented by Child. Wingham

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 2

A little girl was the means of preventing a serious railway smash at Charity' Crook, near Wingham. The fact that the train was…

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Racehorse's Mishap. Accident to Doncaster Candidate. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1927 · page 5

The Doneaster candidate, New Hope, met with an accident while training at Randwick to-day. He was galloping with Metellus, when he was…

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