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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

2,016 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 101

Cyclist Killed. Collision with Tree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 6

Kenneth George Gibson, 36, of Edgar-street, Chatswood, was fatally injured at Peakhurst on Monday afternoon…

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Boy Drowned. Tin Canoe Sinks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 3

Geoffrey Curtis, aged 13, of Liverpool-street, Paddington, was drowned in Elizabeth Bay on Monday afternoon When his tin canoe filled…

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Car Capsizes Six Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

A serious motor smash occurred at Ballina at 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, when a car, containing four children and two men skidded and…

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Wharf Fight Fifty-two Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

Fifty-two men were injured, two seriously, in a desperate encounter between wharf labourers and volunteers on the steamer Mareeba at Port…

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Terribly Injured. Stepped in Front of Train. Cairns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 5

Mrs. Grimlisk, 48, stepped directly in front of an approaching engine at a level crossing near Malanda Station…

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Eye Kicked Out. Fight at Trades Hall. Old Man Badly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

James Digman, aged 64 years, member of the Bakers' Union and well-known Trades Hall personality, had his right eye kicked out, and he…

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Early Morning Blaze Outbreak of Fire in Tailors Shop Inquired Into. Coroner Finds Fire Was Accidental

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 2

An outbreak of fine in the premises of Cormack and Lewis, on December 23, formed the subject of an inquiry by the District Coroner…

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Electrocution of Baby Boy Coroner's Inquiry Into Allandale Road Horror. Verdict of Accidental Death Returned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 1

At the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday morning the District Coroner (Mr. J. T. Richards) conducted an inquiry concerning the death of…

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Motor Accidents Workmen Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 7

A motor 'bus, carrying 25 workmen from Albury to the Hume reservoir, overturned near the weir. Some of the occupants were pinned beneath…

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Upholsterer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Harry Simmons, aged, 20, employed at Fry Bros., High-street, West Maitland, as an upholsterer, received a severely contused lacerated…

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Injured at Play

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 4

Aubrey Brazier, aged 12 years, residing with his parents in Odd-street, Horseshoe Bend, was sliding down the river bank on a tin sledge…

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Struck by Train Man Frightfully Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

Henry Parry, of Ashfield, was frightfully injured at the Clyde railway station shortly before 8 o 'clock last night, when he was run down by a train…

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Drowning Fatality

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 3

A lamentable drowning fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon, about 3 p.m. at O'Brien's Point, Millers Forest, when Mr. J. McAleese, who was employed by Mr…

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Drunken Driver Causes Collision. Bucharest, Jan. 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 7

I strange concatenation of events resulted in 14 being killed or seriously injured in a railway accident. The express from Craiova broke an…

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Crew Drowned. Lifeboat Capsizes. Amsterdam, Jan. 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 7

Going out to the aid of a steamer, stranded in the Hook of Holland, a Dutch steam lifeboat capsized in mountainous seas, and the whole…

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Tug and Steamer Slight Damage in Collision. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 7

A slight collision occurred this morning at Pyrmont, between the Heroine and the steamer Calulu. Practically no damage was done…

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Education. Country Party's Views. an Accident of History

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 3

The resolutions appearing upon the agenda paper of the Annual Conference of the Teachers' Federation revealed the existence of two bodies of…

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Motor Accidents Lorry Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 3

A motor lorry driven by Mr. John Perrin, of Dubbo, and containing his wife and three-year-old son, overturned on the Ashford-Bonshaw…

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Gloucester. Motor Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

What might have been a serious accident happened on the Mograni Hill on Thursday last, when two motor cars came into collision on the…

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