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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 101

Car and Tram Collision at Burwood

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 2

In a collision between a motor car and tram at Burwood on Monday night two occupants of the car, Allan M'Donald, 28, of Surry Hills, and W…

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Motor Accident. Boy Seriously Injured. Driver Op Car Stopped at Singleton

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 1

As a result of being knocked down by a touring car early on Saturday morning Harold Maher (8), only son of Mr. and Mrs. William Maher, of…

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Car Skidded Newcastle Alderman Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 2

Alderman Harold O'Neill, of the Newcastle City Council, suffered injuries to the chest and right ankle when the motor car he was driving…

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Machine Complete Wreck. Owen and Moir Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 1

The latest message concerning Captain Moir and Flight-Lieut. Owen states that the machine is a complete wreck. Only the engine will be…

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Struck by Car. Boy Seriously Injured. Driver Arrested. Muswellbrook

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 2

Whilst a boy named Maher, eight years of age, was crossing the street near the Soldiers' Memorial this morning, he was knocked down by a…

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Vellore Wrecked Moir and Owen Injured. Plane Hits Tree in Landing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 2

Captain Brain, pilot of the Quantas 'plane Atalanta, in an official report to the Department of Civil Aviation, states that Moir and Owen were injured when the Vellore landed at Cape Don lighthouse. The 'plane struck a tree and was…

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Car Crashes Into Sulky Driver Committed on Grievous Bodily Harm Charges. Echo of Collision on Wollombi Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 5

Before Mr. M. C. Nott, S.M., at the Cessnock Police Court this morning, Alfred Beckett was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to…

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Tram Accidents. Conductors Swept From Footboard Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 5

The dislocation of various tramway services was caused this morning by an accident as a tram was passing a parked lorry in…

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Accident on Lennoxton Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1929 · page 7

When the recent grant of £3000 was made for Lennoxton Road the residents and others using the road fully expected that the most…

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£8,000,000 for Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 2

Sir Gerald Bellhouse, Chief Government Inspector of Factories at the annual meeting of the Association of Technical Institutions in London, said…

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Collision at Sea Trawler Sinkks. All Hands Saved

Singleton Argus · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 4

As mentioned in our telegrams of last issue the Palmerston and Millimumul, units of Sydney's trawling fleet were in collision off Jervis Bay shortly…

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McCully's Gap. ACCIDENTS

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 2

While Mr. Stan. Turner was engaged in yarding horses, his horse fell on him. The injured man was taken in the Scone ambulance to the Scone…

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Accident on Salisbury-eccleston Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 5

On Tuesday afternoon Rev. Mr. Baily, was proceeding to his home at Eccleston and had just reached the top of the divide between Salisbury…

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Cessnock Collision Two Men in Sulky Injured. Car Driver Charged. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 7

After several adjournments, the charges against Alfred beckett, arising out of a collision between his car and a sulky on November 10…

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Collision at Hamilton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 2

Stanley Thomas Andrews, 17, driver of a motor lorry, which came into collision with a motor car at the corner of Lindsay and Elcho…

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Footballer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 8

Thomas Winters, of Church-street, West Maitland, while playing football with Homeville this afternoon sustained a fracture of the left…

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Motor Accidents. Man and Boy Severely Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 3

David Berry, 59, if Manly, was in a lane adjacent to a Sydney hotel, when a lorry backed in and the wheels passed over him. He received a probable…

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Little Girl Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 8

Joan Holcombe, aged 11, residing in Old Rome-street, West Maitland, sustained a probable fracture of the left leg above the ankle, when she…

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Injured at Play

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 2

Falling over while playing in the yard of his parents' home at Morewether, Geoff Gunn broke his left arm. Newcastle Ambulance took…

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Boys Injured Gunpowder Explodes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 2

Waiter and Edward Winner, aged 15 and 18, of Cassilis, accompanied by a young man of over 20, were walking through the bush near their…

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