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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

2,369 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 119

Damages Claimed. Fell Down Stone Steps. Nielsen Park Accident. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 June 1928 · page 5

In the Supreme Court to-day. before Mr. Justice Campbell, and a jury of four, George Fox King, a retired grazier, sought to…

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Extraordinary Garage Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1928 · page 1

One man was injured and another suffered shock when a motor tyre blew out at A. G. Hayes' motor garage, South Murwillumbah, on…

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Motoring Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 June 1928 · page 2

"The pressure upon hospital beds and hospital finances caused by the rapid increase in the number of motor-car accidents has been growing in sever-…

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Accident

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 8 June 1928 · page 4

A nasty accident occurred this morning to Mr. Ted Caguey. 20yr o!d son of Mi-, and Mrs. Jack Cagney, of Yango Creek. Two or three were…

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Quarry Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 June 1928 · page 9

While removing the loose stones left after a blast, at the Dunmore Quarry on Wednesday afternoon, Thomas Campbell, aged 30, was…

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Gloucester. Motor Car Collision

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 14

There was a bad collision about a half mile from town, at night, between cars driven by Mr. M. J. Graham and Mr. B. J. Brown. The latter…

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Woman Drowned. Tragedy at Woy Woy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 5

Mrs. Barnes, married woman, aged 24 years, was drowned on Tuesday in Horsefield Bay, near Woy Woy. Mrs. Barnes was stepping from a…

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Steamer Collision. Large Sum Claimed. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 1

A claim for £17,000, arising out of the collision between the steamer Crown City anil St. Albans, in Sydney Harbour last October, was heard…

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Struck by Car. Pioneer Pastoralist Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 16

Mr. D. McDonald, a well-known resident of Goulburn, who has large pastoral interests in the north-west of Western Australia, was knocked down…

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Killed by Car. Woman Shockingly Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 16

A woman, whoso name is believed to be Walsh, aged about 45, was run over and killed by a motor car at Darlinghurst this morning. The body…

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Car Smash. Man and Woman Injured. Intoxicated Driver Fined

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 1

A man named Alfred George Murray, accompanied by a woman, was driving a motor car from Muswellbrook to Denman on Saturday night…

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Whirled Round Shaft. Man Seriously Injured. Wellington (N.s.w.), Wed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 7

A Breeze, an employee of the Farmers Milling Company, had a narrow escape from death when he was caught in some belting, which he was…

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Fracas at Apia Military Police Disperse Mob Two Natives Injured SUVA, June 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 12

There are unconfirmed reports of a fracas at Apia. The military police arrested a Mau adherent, and other…

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Racing Accidents Five Horses Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1928 · page 15

During the racing on Monday four horses were killed. Fortasse, a competitor in the First Steeplechase at Rand wick, fell at the second jump…

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Motor Accidents Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1928 · page 3

Christoper Mackey, 58, plasterer, of Albion-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down by a motor cycle at Bondi Junction on Sunday afternoon…

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Elderly Man Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1928 · page 4

Mr. P. W. Coote (71), a farmer, of Miller's Forest, sustained abrasions to the face and both hands, punctured wound to right cheek…

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Remarkable Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1928 · page 3

While alighting from a motor bus on the main Western-road, at Leura, on Sunday afternoon, J. Skeen, hotel Porter, of Katoomba, was knocked…

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Shooting Fatality Youth Killed at Wollombi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 June 1928 · page 2

Alfred Clice M'Lennan, aged 19 years, son of Mr. C. M'Lennan, of Northcote-street, Aberdare, was fatally injured at Wollombi on Monday…

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Motor Fatality. District Resident the Victim

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 June 1928 · page 5

Claude Brown (33) a returned soldier and a single man, was standing in front of a shop in John-street, Singleton last night, when a taxi-driver, named…

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Car Crash Two Girls Injured

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 June 1928 · page 2

When a racing motor car collided with an electric light post at Mooroopna (Vic.) on Saturday night and overturned, two young women, Olga Allen…

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