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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

2,459 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 123

School Teacher Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 14

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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Motor Accidents. Three Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 11

Colliding with a motor waggon at Clovelly, last week, Ernest McVic, aged 20 years, a motor cyclist, of Coogee, was thrown heavily to the…

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Fatal Collision. Youth Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

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

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Boy Drowned at Bondi

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 14

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

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Melbourne Accidents. Two Seriously Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 4

A parked motor car, getting out of brake control, ran down Bourke-street last night, and crashed into James Doyle, aged 31…

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Fatal Motor Accident. One Killed, Another Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

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

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Narrow Escape. Bather Nearly Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

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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Drowned in Darling. Broken Hill

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

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

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Terribly Injured. Boy Under Tram

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 14

Attempting to jump on to the footboard of a steam tram at Kogarah, a schoolboy, Richard Giford, aged 8½ years, fell, and rolled under the…

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Motor Cyclist Injured. Machine Skids

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 16

Maurice Denham, aged 20 years, of Phillip-street, Balmain, was seriously injured shortly before 6 o'clock on Sunday when a motor…

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Fatally Injured. Near Railway Line

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

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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Swimming Fatality. Exhausted Rescuer Drowns. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 1

Miss Karlie McDonald, aged 26 years, senior mistress at the Kerang Girls' High School, was drowned in the River Loddon this afternoon…

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Refuge From Flood Became Exhausted and Drowned

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 1

In connection with floods in the Murchison (W.A.) area, a station hand, after clinging to the branches of a tree for several days, fell exhausted and was…

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Surf Tragedies. Three Drowned. During Week-end

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 14

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…

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Man Drowned. While Fording River at Maryborough

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 11

While attempting to ford a swollen river in a sulky, James Hook was swept away and drowned. No trace of the missing man or vehicle…

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Unlucky Number. Thirteen Involved in Fatality. Rockhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 7

The number 13 uphold its tragic significance on the night on March 13 last, whon 13 passengers on a motor bus were concerned in an…

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Car and Taxi Collide Three Ladies Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 11

Three persons were injured when a motor car and taxi collided at Newtown. They were Miss Mary Brown, 25, of Hurlstone Park,…

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Forty Feet Fall. Youth Fatally Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 3

Harold Francis, aged 19, of Concord, fell 40 feet from scaffolding of a building in Reservoir-street to-day…

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Crashed Over Cliff. Midnight Accident. Rockhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 7

A car driven by John McMillan, a traveller, crashed over a bank on Razorbank at midnight on Friday. McMillan sustained serious injuries…

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Dungog. Wattle Club Fair. Motor Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 4

Mr. Corrigan, a visitor from Moree, had a narrow escape from serious-injury on Saturday night last while travelling from Dungog to…

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