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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 101

Footballer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 4

F. Scholes, 21, living at William street, East Maitland, and employed at Turton's, East Maitland, had two stitches inserted in a lacerated…

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Struck with Bottle Woman Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day William John Smythe, 36, a laborer, was remanded until May 7 on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily…

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Train Derailment. Carriage Over Embankment. Three Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 6

Two passengers and an assistant guard were injured when a carriage on the 8.30 train from Kiama to Sydney left the rails and toppled…

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Smash at Kogarah Train and Engine. Eight People Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 4

With a terrific crash the sound of which could be heard some distance away, a steam tram collided with a railway engine at Kogarah on Saturday…

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Tree Falls on Picnic Party One Woman Killed. Four Other People Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 4

Mrs Elizabeth Richardson, of Collieryroad, Lithgow, was killed, and four other people injured yesterday, when a large tree fell on a motor picnic party…

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Head Injuries. Cessnock Motor Accidents Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 4

Returning from Cessnock races on Saturday afternoon Alex Mason, 39, of Anstey-street, Cessnock, a passenger in a motor car, was thrown…

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Two Men Killed. Level Crossing Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 3

Just after the Auckland to Welling, ton express passed through Shannon (N.Z.) the engine struck a lorry laden with furniture on a crossing south of…

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Fatally Injured Knocked Down by Engine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 6

Eric McDonald, aged 30, of Waverley, was fatally injured when he was knocked down by an engine at Bunnerong Power House on Monday…

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Attacked by Pig Child Severely Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 5

Gay McMillan, aged three, was savagely attacked by a pig at Morrinsville, New Zealand, and seriously injured. The child was feeding…

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Severe Storms. Thirty-two Killed. Many Injured. New York, April 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 5

Thirty-two were killed in floods and tornadoes in the midwest-south-west and Southern States at the week-end, and 40…

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Car Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 April 1929 · page 4

On returning from Broke races on Saturday a Cessnock car, owned and driven by Mr. E. Summers, of Allandale Road, rail into a rut and would…

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Wheeler Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 4

Keith Edmonds, 26, living at Green-street, Homeville, and employed as a wheeler at Ayrfield No. 1 Colliery, was digging coal while at…

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School Teacher Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1929 · page 5

Albert Madew, 27, living at Kingstreet, East Maitland, a school teacher at the East Maitland Boys' High School, fell, while playing…

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State Boy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 April 1929 · page 4

Alfred Leafe, 16, a State boy, employed by Mr. W. Sager, Bolwarra, fell from a bicycle while delivering milk in Kensington road, Bolwarra,…

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Motors in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 5

As a result of a collision between a baker's motor van and a motor car in Regent-street, near the Cinira Private Hospital at 11.30 a.m. this…

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Motor Collision at Hexham

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 4

Two Maitland children were injured at Hexham railway crossing on Thursday when a motor car in which they were travelling, collided…

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Level Crossing Collision a Dentist Killed

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 5

Kenneth Bladen, aged 23, a dentist, was killed when his car collided with a train at a level crossing near Winchelsea (Vic.) yesterday. Bladen's father,…

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Woman Arested. Motor Collision Near Katoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 2

Following a head-on collision between a motor cyclist find a motor car on the main road between Leura and Katoomba on Thursday, the…

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Cars Collide Five People Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 2

Five people were injured when two motor cars collied near the intersection of Sydney-road and Alfred-street, Granville, on Thursday…

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Seven Injured. Car Skids and Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1929 · page 2

When a car skidded and, after running down an embankment, overturned on the Great Southern-road, near Denham Court, seven passengers in…

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