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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

2,369 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 49 of 119

Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 6

William John Clynes (16), stockman, living at Rutherford, was thrown from his motor cycle on to a patch of rocks near the Rutherford…

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One Killed. Another Seriously Injured. Rockhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 7

As the result of an accident on the Alton Downs Road, Michael Hanahran died, and another young man named Tom Bryce was seriously injured…

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Cartridge Explodes Schoolboy Injured in Strange Circumstances

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 2

While a 12-year-old schoolboy, Mervyn Heitman, of Maryborough, was sitting in a room with a number of others, he rubbed a cartridgo shell on…

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Motor Smash Two Killed, Two Critically Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 1

Two men were killed and two others critically injured in a motor smash on the Parramatta-road, Lidcombe, on Monday night. Those killed were…

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Thrown From Side Car Mother and Infant Terribly Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 2

Terrible injuries were suffered on Monday by a mother and her infant, who were flung from the side car attached to the motor, cycle…

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Child Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 4

Lucille Carter, aged one year and ten months, daughter of Mr. S. Carter, of Woodville, with her elder brother, three years of age, went out…

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Head Injured. Row at Surry Hills. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 5

Norman McDonald, aged 30, who on March 14 was shot in the abdomen in a row at Surry Hills, was admitted to hospital last night…

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Thrown From Side Car. Mother and Infant Terribly Injured

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 4

Terrible injuries were suffered on Monday by a mother and her infant, who were flung from the side car attached to the motor cycle…

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Accidents

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 5

John Caban [?] of Ellalong, received [?] injuries when he met with an accident while working at Stanfor[?] No. [?] Colliery on…

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Brisbane Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 14

David John Stevens. 42 years, of Windsor, (Q.). was thrown from a motor car when it overturned, and received a fractured skull, from which…

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Blasting Accident Man Terribly Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 6

A blasting accident occurred at the Main Roads Board's blue metal quarry at Cox's River, near Lithgow, when Alexander Knight, powder monkey, was…

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Terribly Injured Blasting Accident Neau Lithgow

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 5

A blasting accident occurred at the Main Roads Board's blue metal quarry at Cox's River, near Lithgow, when Alexander Knight…

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Kurri Butcher Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 6

Michael Moroney, 32, a butcher, employed at the Kurri Kurri Co-operative Society's butchery, met with a serious accident, while engaged…

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Old Man Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 14

When Arthur Lucas, a storekeeper, and an elderly man, was knocked down by a motor car, and pinned to the ground by the rear wheels, at…

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Unknown Driver Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 14

The driver of a car which collided with a lorry on the Great Western Road on Sunday was critically injured aud taken to Sydney Hospital…

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Youth Drowned Pinned by Harrow

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 16

Donald Robert Lonsdale 19, a son of Mr. J. Lonsdale, of Mulwala, near Yarrawonga (Vic), was drowned in a dam on his father's farm on…

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Head Crushed. Fatality Near Newcastle. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 6

A man named William George Stewart, 30, was killed at Mullen's works, Newtown, to-day. Deceased was pushing a weight under a crane…

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Boy Rilled. Struck by Car. Bondi Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 14

Arthur Ward (7), of Littleton Avenue. Bondi, was futally injured on Saturday when he ran in front of a motor car driven by James C…

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Children Drowned Flat-bottomed Boat Overturns. Vancouver. May 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 12

A Sudbury (Ontario) message states that when returning in a flat-bottomed boat, across flooded fields surrounding Whitefis school, three…

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One Killed. Another Seriously Injured Rockhampton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 5

As the result of an accident on the Alton Downs Road, Michael Hanahran died, and another young man named Tom Bryee was seriously…

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