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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 101

Women Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 8

When two motor cars met in head-on collision at Campsie, late on Sunday afternoon, three women were injured. Mrs. Harriet Tunks, of…

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Air Collision. One Pilot Killed. Other Jumps Clear. London, March 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 3

Flying Officer Sealy Allien was killed in mid air in a collision between his airplane, and another at Kenley. The pilot of the other machine,…

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Two Killed Week-end Motor Accidents. Melbourne Tragedies. Cycle and Car Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 8

Elizabeth Myrtle Council, aged 35 years, of Montague, was killed when the sidecar and a motor cycle driven by her husband came into collision…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 4

A. G. Roweliff, 48, living at Paterson, and employed at Martin's Creek, railway metal quarry, received abrasions to the right hand, probable…

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Immigrant Drowned Swept Away on Flood Water

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 6

An Atherton (Q.) message states that John Draper, an immigrant, aged 171 years was Swept off his horse on Sunday while attempting to cross the…

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Child Drowned Capsize of Rowing Boat. Mungindi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 5

Lilliam Martyn, aged two, was drowned when a rowing boar, containing three adults and five children, capsized on the Barwon River…

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Throat Slashed. Woman Terribly Injured. Husband Missing. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 5

Mrs. May Depena, 41, who was found in a house at Redfern late night, with two deep gashes in her throat and wounds on the forehead…

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Man Killed. Blasting Accident at Ardlethan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 3

John Thomas Casey (24) died in the Temora Hospital from injured received at the Ardlethan tin mine. Casey was engaged in blasting. He…

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Windows Shattered. Motor Cyclist Crashes. Sensational Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 4

A sensational accident, which culminated in a young man being taken to the Maitland Hospital, occurred at J. F. O'Brien's…

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Peculiar Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 March 1929 · page 2

When a man knocks a bird off its perch it is such a common event that it has no new value, but when it is the other way about there…

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Drowned While Attempting Rescue

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 2

Herbert Ramsay, aged 29, married, was drowned yesterday at Warrnambool (Vic). A young woman got into difficulties, and Ramsay went to her…

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Surfer Drowned Attempting to Rescue Woman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 3

Herbert Ramsay, 29, married, was drowned on Tuesday at Warrnambool. A young woman got into difficulties, and Ramsay went to her…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Crashed Through Plateglass Window

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 2

The admission of Harry Pattinson, aged 19, to the Maitland General Hospital yesterday, suffering from extensive injuries, followed a sensational…

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LOCAL & GENERAL Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

Cyril Berthold, 17, living at Lindsay-street, East Maitland, was riding a bicycle on the East Maitland road, when it skidded, throwing him to…

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Car Over Embankment. Two Men Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 4

Two persons were injured when a motor car left the road in King Edward Park, just after midnight, And toppled over a 15ft embankment…

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Overturned Lorry Crashes Into Pole. Trainees and Officer Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 5

Six trainees and an array officer, were injured when a lorry, conveying them to Liverpool camp, crashed into a pole…

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Glass-cutter Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 5

A. Harris 55, a glass-cutter, in the employ of Frederic Ash, Limited, and living of Bar Beach, Newcastle, was putting in a plate glass window at…

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Footballer Injured. on

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 1

Frank Watters, late of Muswellbrook, one of our local hairdressers, was the victim of a very severe and painful accident on Sunday last. A number of…

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Air Tragedy Collision with Tree Pilot Burnt to Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 6

The list of air tragedies was added to on Thursday afternoon when Flying-Officer Herbert Warland was burnt to death when his plane…

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Army Lorry Overturns Crashed Into Pole. Officers and Trainees Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 1

Six trainces and an army officer were injured when a lorry, conveying them to Liverpool camp, crashed into a pole and overturned at Bankstown carly…

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