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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 101

Booking Clerk Injured Daring Attack at Railway Station Youth Steals 38/

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 5

A youth made a daring attack on the booking clerk at M'Donaldtown railway station on Wednesday night, and stole £1/18/ from the office…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 2

Whilst riding a motor cycle into Dungug along Fosterton Road on Thursday night about 7 p.m. Mr. Clem. Walsh collided head on with…

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Motor Oar Accident

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 May 1929 · page 6

Mr Ernes Harrington, a young man, of Avoca-street, Coogee, met with an accident as the result of a motor car which he was driving overturning at…

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Lorrien in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 6

Two large motor lorries, one owned by Mr. Lewis Merris, and the other by Guy Bros, came into collision yesterday afternoon in…

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Launch Swamped Young Man Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 14

France Fisher, 13 yours of age, of Kiama, was drowned last night when a fishing launch was swamper. Fisher and Charles Christian[?]…

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Fell Sixty Feet. Steel Works Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 13

George Williams, 29, fell 60ft, to his death at Broken Bill steelworks on Sunday morning. Williams was adjusting on oil transporter when he…

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Woman Arrested. Motor' Collision Near Katoomba

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 9

Following, a head-on collision between a motor cyclist and a motor car on the main road between Loura and Katoomba on 25th ult., the…

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Body Recovered. Drowned in Waterhole. Rockhampton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 14

The body of Carl Lohfeldt, who was drowned in a hole, near the Fitzroy River on Saturday, was recovered yesterday…

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Seven Injured. Car Skids and Overturns

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 9

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

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Woman Injured. Crushed by Motor Lorry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 7

When a motor lorry collided, side on, with a motor car at Wilioughby, last night, Adele Barber, 54, of Manly, was crushed against the side…

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Scaffolding Falls. Three Men Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 5

Three men were injured, one seriously, when a scaffolding, on which they were working fell 20 feet at the new D.M.A. Building…

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Four Killed. Fatalities in Melbourne. Others Seriously Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 9

There were four fatal accidents in Melbourne on 26th ult. Samuel Grundry, 61, a cab driver of South Yarra, was driving his…

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Burned to Death. Shocking Motor Coach Disaster. Many Seriously Injured. London, April 28

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 12

When a motor coach, travelling from Reading to London on Saturday night turned over and caught fire four were burn…

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Toll of the Road 38 Killed; Scores Injured. Family Wiped Out. New York, April 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 2

At least 38 persons were killed, and scores were injured in motor accidents during the past week-end…

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Toppled Over. Accident to Motorist. Singeleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 8

Owing to the front wheels of his Studobaker car, becoming looked a young man, Ernest Harrington, of Avoca-street Coogoe met with an…

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Nine Killed Week-end Motor Accidents Three Sydney Fatalities

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1929 · page 14

In New South Wales and Victoria nine persons were killed in motor accidents at the week-end. Three of the deaths…

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Boy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 4

Neville Hatcher, two, living at Government road Homeville sustained a probable fracture of the right forearm when he fell down the steps at…

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Sulky and Car in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 4

A motor car, driven by Mr. Walter West, of of Salt Ash, and a sulky driven by Mr. Kenneth G. Sparke of Homeville West Maitland collided…

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Youth Killed Shocking Fatality at Brokenback

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 2

Four youths residing at Sawyer's Gully, Thomas Hassey, 20, Arthur Hassey, 17, William Brickman, 19 and Rector Joseph Brickman, 16 left their…

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Toll of the Motor. Two Children Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 6

While crossing Military-road Mosman Margaret Allerton aged 8, of that suburb was knocked down by a motor car. She was [?] to hospital…

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