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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,301 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 66

Judge's Wife. Injured in Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1930 · page 5

Judge Foster's wife and Mrs. J. P. Jones, wife of the Minister for Public Works, were injured in a motor accident near Mornington, Victoria…

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Orchardist Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1930 · page 2

Joseph Lodge, aged 29, an orchardist, of Arthur's Creek, Victoria, met his death on Monday in peculiar circumstances. He intended to go to…

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Street Battle Five Hundred Injured at Bombay

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1930 · page 1

Calcutta, Monday.—Over 500 people were injured, in a three-hours battle at Bombay yesterday between mounted and foot police and congress…

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Serious Mutiny in India Organised Attempt by Convicts Forty-five Killed and 68 INJURED (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Calcutta, Wednesday

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1930 · page 2

A serious meeting broke out at Rangoon Central Gaol yesterday afternoon, resulting in two warders, two military policemen, one lorry driver, and 40…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 4

Riding a motor cycle which came into collision last night with a motor car at East Maitland, Kenneth Bayliss, 38, a fettler, employed at…

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Injured Cranking Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 5

Mr. William Richards aged 41, a resident of Luskintyre had the [?] of his right leg badly bruised to-day when cranking a car. The…

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Two Injured Motor Car Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 6

As L. Pegier, of Glen Innes and Alderman Thomas of Inverell were proceeding by car to Glen Innes the steoring gear failed and the car…

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Denman Fatality. Body of Victim Recovered. Denman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 4

The body of Cyril Ness, who was drowned at Sydney Creek, on the Pickering Estate, was found this mornning by Alex Almond in close…

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Jockey Injured. Kicked by Racehorse. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 4

While attending to a horse in the sand pit at Randwick racecourse this morning, Edward Silver, 15, an apprentice jockey, had his pelvis…

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Fatal Shot. Revolver Accidentally Exploded. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 4

Allison Wood, aged 6, the daughter of a, fisherman at Albert Park, accidentally shot herself this morning while playing with a revolver. She…

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Thighs Fractured. Timber Worker Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 2

Edrick Daunt, 36, living at Stroud, a timber-worker, was handling a log yesterday when it struck a stump and knocked a lover loose. The lever…

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Skull Fractured Motor Car Fatality. Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 6

A man in whose pocket a bank book in the name of Ernest Eden Topscot was found, was walking along the Port Kembla road last evening, when…

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Ducks Were Drowned Kurri Man's Heavy Loss

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 7

It is not often that one hears of ducks being drowned, but MR. Bill Donne, of Rawson-street, Kurri Kurri, tells us that he lost eighteen…

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Motor Ship Overturns. Fifteen Persons Drowned, Rockhampon

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 8

Including the Resident. Magistrate, Mr. F. Berge, and his four children, most of them natives, were drowned when the motor ship Vaivin overturned…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 4

Thomas Butler, 61, of Hopetoun-street, Kurri Kurri, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri District Hospital yesterday, suffering from injuries to…

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Eleven Killed Canadian Railway Smashes. Many Injured. Toronto, June 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 June 1930 · page 2

Four children were killed, and 21 persons injured, when the Canadian National Railways train, No. 4, from Winning to Toronto, was deralled…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 June 1930 · page 8

While engaged putting sonic [?] into a yard in the evening. Mrs. Joseph McNulty, who is 76 years of age, tripped and fell. The old lady…

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Fell Through Roof Constable Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 June 1930 · page 3

While taking part in a hunt for hurglars at a Waterlee factory late last night. Constable Gilbert Barwick, attached to the Redform station, fell…

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"Supposed Drowning." "Victim" Safe and Sound

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 5

At 2 p.m. yesterday a boy named Kobert Gilmorc (8) was seen playing near a big hole in Muscle Creek in the vicinity of the Bell-street bridge. A…

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Body Found Drowned in Waterhole

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 5

The body of John McNeil, who has been missing from his camp, about four or five miles on the Gloucester side of Krambach, since Thursday…

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