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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Motor Smash at Rydalmere. Stationmaster Killed Two Others Injured. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 7

Arthur Ernest Taylor (56), stationmaster, was killed, and his wife, Honriette Taylor (54), and William Taylor (67) were injured when a…

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Youth Killed. Fatality on Football Field

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 14

Milton Walkerton, aged 19, of Brookvale, died from a fracture of the skull, sustained while playing football at Manly on Saturday…

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Damages Awarded. Tram Passenger Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 5

Claiming £2000 damages against the Railway Commissioners in respect of the death of her husband, who fell from a tram at Drummoyne…

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Plane Crashes Spectators Injured. Bundaberg Sensation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 6

When Mr. S. K. Howard's new Avro Avian 'plane, piloted by Pilot Stephenson, with Mr. E. Helmut[?] of Woodgate, as a passenger, was…

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Sydney's Toll One Killed, Several Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 13

As the result of motor accidents in Sydney during the week-end two persons are dead, while several others were injured, some seriously…

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Car and Sulky Collision at Cessnock. Case at Sessions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 5

Alfred, Beckett was charged at Maitland Quarter Sessions, with that on November 10, at Cessnock, he then in charge of a motor car did by…

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Air Liner Disaster. Dived Into English Channel. Seven Perish. Melbourne Man Drowned. London, June 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 2

Since Christmas Eve, 1924, when an Imperial air liner was burnt at Croydon aerodrome, resulting in eight deaths, Imperial Airways has flown 3,800,000 miles without a fatal accident…

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£5,000,000 for Accidents

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 14

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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Cause of Accident. London, June 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 2

The Air Ministry announces that it has been decided to order a formal investigation of the accident to the air-liner…

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Industrial Accidents. Labour Office Principles. London, June 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 13

The Geneva correspondent of the Australian Press Association states that the Commonwealth Government's reply to the Labour Office…

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Death From Injuries. Victim of Motor Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 6

Mrs. Quigley, aged 46, of Lisarow, who was seriously injured when a motor car overturned near Gosford, died in the Royal Prince Alfred…

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Man Drowned. Launch in Heavy Gale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 4

The westerly gale, which swept over Sydney Harbour at a fierce rate, on Sunday was responsible for the death of a man in Botany Bay on…

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Footballers Injured in Play at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 3

Five footballers were hurt, one seriously, in games played in the Newcastle district on Saturday. They were Archibaid McKinnon…

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Seriously Injured. Knocked Down by Car. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 5

David Keirs, 61 of Paxton, was knocked down by a motor car in Vicent-street, Cessnock, on Saturday night…

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Car Overturned. Man Killed Near Kiama. Girl Injured. Kiama

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 5

When a car capsized on Mount Pleasant between Kiama and Geringong on Saturday night, Joseph Francis Love, 34, was killed…

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Motor Cycle Accidents. Two Deaths Result

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 4

The persons were killed and four others injured in four separato motor cycle accidents in Sydney and suburbs yesterday. In three instances the…

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The Singleton Argus. MONDAY, 24th JUNE, 1929. LOCAL & General News Accident to Footballers

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 2

When two ears conveying footballers, and driven by Mr Len Killalea and Mr Amos Khan respectively, wero returning from the match at Scone on…

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Fell Downstairs. Fatality at Sgone

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 1

A man well-known at Scone us Jerry" Mars land, fell down the stairs at the Golden. Fleece Hold on Friday evening last and died from his…

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On Wrong Side Motor Cyclist Fined Collision with Car

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 5

Charged with driving a motorcycle on the wrong side when turning into a street, Arthur L. Barnett was at Cessnock Court to-day, fined £2…

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Threads of Life Published by Special Arrangement. (Copyright.). Chapter Xv. Baffled and Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 3

Gladys left Bransmere with a feeling that she had been rather badly treated. Things had not gone as smoothly as she expected; her…

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