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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

2,459 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 32 of 123

Seriously Injured. in Motor Collision. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1927 · page 5

Fred Linguist, aged 22, a clerk collided with a motor car while driving a motor cycle along. Macquarie- street to-day. He was taken to…

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Forty Feet Fall. Youth Fatally Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1927 · page 5

Harold Francis, aged 10, of Concord, fell 40 feet from scaffolding of a building in Roservoir-street to-day…

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Car Accident. Hindu Killed. Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1927 · page 7

A fatal accident occurred this morning on Goomboorian Road, five miles from Gympie. A carrier, named Ross, was driving…

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Body Identified. Tram Accident Victim. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1927 · page 5

The body of the woman who was killed as a result of being knocked down by a tram at the corner of Hay and Pitt streets, Sydney, has…

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Drowned in Flood. Fatality in W.A. PERTH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 6

A message from Perenjori states that's man named Whearn whose camp was 18 miles from Wunarra station, was washed away by flood…

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Melbourne Accidents. Two Seriously Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 5

A parked motor car, getting out of brake central, ran ,dow Bourke-street last night, and washed into James Doyle, aged 31…

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Swimming Fatality. Exhausted Rescuer Drowns. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 4

Miss Karlic McDonald, aged 20 years, senior mistress at the Kerang Girls' High School, was drowned in the River Loddon this afternoon,…

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Henry Ford. Seriously Injured, Motor Car Plunges 20 Feet. Bontread, March 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 5

A Detroit message states that Mr. Henry Ford was taken to the Henry Ford Hospital to-day, where he is being treater for injuries sustained…

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Accident at Goods-vard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 4

Mervin Thomas, aged 21, residing at Hudson-street, Hamilton, was lifting a bundle of galvanised pipes from a truck at the West Maitland…

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Accidental Death. Fell Down Sewerage Shaft. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 6

A verdict of accidental death was returned to-day 'by the City Coroner (Mr. Fletcher) at the conclusion of the inquest concerning…

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Car Accidents. Preventive Measures. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 7

Some time ago, the North Sydney Council suggested to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Lazzarini), that a conference should ,bo called to consider…

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Aviation Accident Victim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 4

Mr. W. R. Donaldson, who was one of the unfortunate victims of the sensational aviation accident last week, when ho as a passenger in the…

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Injury to Hand. Severe Accident. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 5

Driver Ernest Frederick, Davis, a member of the 101st Battery of the Australian Held Artillery, was [?] in a special military train in…

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Extraordinary Motor Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 4

Mr. J. D. Handley-Sevmour an undergraduate of Clare, College, Cambridge was killed as the result of an extraordinary accident, an English exchange says…

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Toll of the Motor Accidents .In the Country

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 4

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

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Scaffolding Accident Boy Killed, Man Hurt. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, Wednesday

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 2

When a section of scaffolding collapsed at the new Government Savings Bank building to-day, a huge plank struck Thomas Duggan, aged 60, of…

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New Hope's Accident Will Miss Spring Meeting. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 March 1927 · page 2

New Hope, who broke a bone when he collided with a flagpole at Randwick yesterday morning, will not be able to race at the Spring meeting, according…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1927 · page 4

The four year old son of Mr. G. Priestley was jerked off a cart load be wood on Thursday last and the wheel passed over the little fellow…

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Lift Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 April 1927 · page 9

While working at the Alexandria goods shed yesterday Arthur Dunne, a foremen, aged 44, of Westbourne-street Kogarah, was caught in the…

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Two Injured. in Tram Collision

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 15

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

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