Toll of the Floods. Girl and Man Drowned. Washaways on Railways. Farmers Suffer Heavy Losses
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1927 · page 2
The heavy floods which occurred at the week-end were responsible for two deaths. A little girl was drowned at Tuggerah and a married man is reported to have been drowned at Booral…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1927 · page 8
D. Morrison, an engineer, living at Hamilton, sustained a severe lacerated wound on the first finger of his lett hand, through striking it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Four Injured. Two Cars in Collision. Both Overturned
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 6
A violent collision between two motor cars, resulting in injuries to four people, occurred at the Intersection of Ocean-street and…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 6
Three men are alleged to have attacked Thomas Hayes (38), of Victoria-street, Alexandria, and attempted to drown him, at Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Abermain Boy Injured
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 4
Lawrie Robertson, aged four, of Abermain, who is with his parents in Newcastle on holidays, was knocked down by a motor cyclist on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boating Tragedy. Two Sisters Drowned
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 7
Mrs. Longuet, aged 23, one of the victims of the boating fatality, at Auckland, was the wife of a member of the crew of the naval oil tanker…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1927 · page 3
Mr. G. C. Bodkin, secretary to the railway workers' industry branch of the A.W.U., in a reference to the Workers' Compensation Act, said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Drowned. Wrecked Motor Launch
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 2
The bodies of three unidentified men, with a wrecked motor, launch, were discovered on the beach at Brighton-le-Sands, Botany Bay, late…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
Robert Martin, employed on the , mechanical staff of the Gwydir "Examiner" was seriously injured on Monday evening when returning to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tornadoes' Toll Many Killed and Injured. in United States. Vancouver, April 10
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 5
A message from Kansas City states that tornadoes and cloudbursts on Tuesday evening and Wednesday added to the flood's toll over a score…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anna Bay Fatality
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
Without warning of any king, a party of campers at the 1 mile beach, Anna Bay were caught in a falling mass of sand trees and rocks. Three of the party were…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 4
Two boys, aged 13 and 14 years sons of Mr. W. Duncan, a NEw Zealand representative footballer, were drowned in a dam at Green Island…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Injured. Struck by Motor Cycle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
Miss Rita Margaret Abbott, of Albury, Michael Doran and Herbert Maurice Boon, both of Hume Weir have been admitted to Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gunpowder Explosion. Seven-year-old Boy Injured
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
Wishing to see what would happen, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. O'Neill of Goulburn, experimented with gunpowder and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terribly Injured. Suicide's Fatal Leap. Auckland
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 5
An unknown man jumped from the parapet of Grafton Bridge, and was hurled into the gully below, and terribly injured. He was dead when his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to Car While Leaving Punt
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
The sequel to an accident which occurred on the punt crossing the Williams River at Clarencetown, on September 5, was heard at Maitland District Court on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shooting Accident at Jerry's Plains
Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 April 1927 · page 2
Mr P. J. Houston, of West Maitland, was rabbit shooting at Jerry's Plains on Sunday, when lie slipped and fell, and the pea rifle he was carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anna Bay Fatality
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 7
On Saturday morning at 8.30 Henry Davis of Adamstown, was kilted and three others injured when tons of earth, sand and rock were…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 7
Rechard Davies, of the Branch Mill, near Booral, was drowned on Saturday night, while attempting to cross the Branch River, a tributary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fortunate Escape from Drowning. Mail Contractor's Experience
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 1
On Tuesday morning last, Mr. Charles Clayden, mail contractor, had a narrow escape from drowning. It appears that whilst delivering the…
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