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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

2,459 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 123

Sidecar Crash P.M.G. Department Mon Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 5

On the way to repair an interruption in telephone services, a P.M.G.'s Department side-car outfit skidded and capsized in Sydney Road…

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Motor Cycle and Car Serious Collision- in Victoria, (By Telegraph.) Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 2

A six-months' old baby named Norma Barnes was killed and three other persons injured when a motor cycle and side-car and a. motor car collided near…

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Promising Athlete Fatally Injured on Foot-ball Weld. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 5

Harold Ryan, 22, died at Bathurst. following a kick which he received while playing in a first grade football match…

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Grazier Seriously Injured Knocked Down by Car. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 2

Thomas Smith, a grazier from Crookwell, who was knocked down by a motor car on Saturday night, is still in an unconscious condition in Sydney…

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Woman Fatally Injured Knocked Down by Police Patrol Car. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 2

Mrs Alice Nell, aged 47, had just alighted, from a bus in Flinders-street this morning, when she was knocked down by a police patrol car driven by…

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Accidentally Shot While' Rabbit Shooting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 3

So many people are now after rabbits, crying to the big prices being paid for skins, that there is a certain amount of danger attached to…

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Speedy Ambulance Work Port Stephens Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 4

Wireless and ambulance transport efficiency enabled Albert Lilley, second mate of the Union S.S. Company's steamer Poolta, who met with…

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Accidentally Shot Dead

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1927 · page 2

Reginald Lawton, aged 16, was accidentally shot dead at Mulbergen, near Griffith, on Friday. With three brothers and another boy he went shooting,…

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Mine Fatality. Underground Manager Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1927 · page 2

Thomas Anthony Freeman, underground manager at the State colamine, Wonthagg (Vic.) was crushed to death by a skip which broke…

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Traveller Killed. Crossing Fatality at Griffith

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1927 · page 3

A collision between a train and a motor car at a railway crosing half a mile from the Gr[?] railway station on Tuesday resulted in the…

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Jockey Seriously Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1927 · page 5

Tom Burrows, 16, an apprentice jockey, was thrown from horse at the Newcastle course this morning. With his foot hung in the stirrup…

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Polo Fatality. Mr. Jack Ryrie Killed, Gilgandra Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1927 · page 3

While playing in a polo tournament at Gilgandra, Mr. Jack Ryrle, lf Penally Station, Gulargambone, was thrown, as a result of a collision…

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Run Down by Car Four People Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 June 1927 · page 2

First, a woman and then three men, in different parts, of Sydney, were run down by a motor car driven at a furious rate on Tuesday night. Though as yet…

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Kurri Miner Injured In Motor Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 10

Mr. John Clements, aged 27, who resides at Maitland Road, Stanford Merthyr, and is employed as a miner at Pelaw Main Colliery, sustained a…

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Head-on Collision. Cyclists Fortunate Escape

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 5

Mr. Andy McCann, with G. Ward as back supporter on a motor cycle, ran “head on” to another cyclist early this week…

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Compensation Claim. Injured in Hebburn Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 4

Before the Workers' Compensation Commission in Newcastle yesterday, William Donald, Claimed £4/17/- a week compensation for 15 days from…

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Car and Cycle. Serious Collision at Ashfield Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 5

As the result of a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle at Ashfield late last night, William Conn sustained a fractured skull,…

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A Painful Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 1

Mr. W. Ayres, a member of the staff in the ironmongery department at M. Campbell and Co's. store, met with a painful accident on Tuesday morning…

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Nasty Accident. To Aberdare Residents

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 5

While driving his horse and sulky down Neath Hill last Saturday evening, Mr. Les. Hughes of Aberdare Road collided with another sulky,…

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Accident to Child. Explosion of Carbide

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 5

A painful accident befel Fraser Wilson the [?] old son of Mr L. G. Wilson, Maitland street, South Cessnock last Sunday afternoon…

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