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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,301 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 66

Motor Fatality. Lorry Driver Charced. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 2

At the Police Court to-day, Ernest Flunle, 23, laboyrer, was charged with having foloniously stain Robert Scrcon at Broadmeadow on July 3,…

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Crashed Into Tree Man Killed Three Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 6

A man who was killed when thrown fram a lorry, which crashed into a tree, in the Adclaide hills, has been identified as William…

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Cycles Collide. Maitland Resident Injured. Smash at Mayfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 8

Three persons were injured about 10 o'clock on Sunday night. when a motor cycle and a motor cycle with side-var attached, proceeding towards…

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Five Killed When Steamers Collide Seventeen Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 2

A message from Zaria states that when the Yuge Slav steamer Karageerevitch collided with the Italian motor boat Francesco Moresini, five…

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Passenger Killed In'plane Crash Pilot Seriously Injured. Tragedy Occurs in Blinding Rain

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 3

Crashing into a fence in a blinding rain squall at Manly on Saturday, a small aeroplane was wrecked. A passenger was killed, and the pilot lies…

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Boy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 4

Victor Woodbury. 15, of wattagau, was steadying a stump, which his brother was chopping on Monday afternoon, when the are glanced off…

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Jockey Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 5

A Watson, an apprentice Joekey, while riding work at Randwick this morning, fell heavily and fractured his right leg…

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Drowned Mother and Young Babe in Waterhole

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 5

Mrs. Helen Isabella McAlpin, of Lansdowne, was found drowned on Tuesday last with her baby girl. Peggy Georgina Adelaide, aged six…

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Footballers Injured At Week End Broken Collarbones

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 5

Two Kurri Kurri footballers-Henry Richards, of Hopetoun-street, and Ernest Bagnall (18), of Hopetown street, had their collarbones broken…

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Chemical Works Explosion. 11 KILLED; 20 Injured. Debris Scattered for Miles. Many Houses Damaged. London

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 4

Heralded by a pall of yellow fumes, due to a fire in the middle of the works, which overhung the nitration plant, a huge sheet of flame followed,…

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Two Injured. Serious Accidents at Waratah

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 6

Basil Johnson, 31, a fittor, residing at Mayfield, sustained a fracture of the [?] arm, a probable fracture of the akull, and shook, when he fell…

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Mining Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 4

Martin Drain, 32, clipper residing: in Church-street, Cessnock, was struck by a set of runaway skips at Bellbird Colliory, and received injuries to the…

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Collision in High Street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 4

A collision occurred at the corner of High and Eigin-streets, shortly before 8.30 this morning, between a motor bus. the property of Rover…

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Forced Down. Flying Boat in Heavy Sea. 'Five Drowned. Berlin, July 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 5

Five were drowned, including four passengers, one of whom was an American woman, when e, Dorniwal flying; boat,…

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Peculiar Accident Runaway Motor Lorry Wheel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 2

A heavy motor wheel, which flow off the broken axie of a motor lorry at Globe, strack Mrs. Ina May Nakken, 99. of Cariton. and [?]…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 7

Richard Oliver (34), miner employed, at the Pelaw Main Colliery, was caught by a fall of coal in the colliery on Tuesday and received scalp…

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Injured at Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 5

Mr, Alfred Joseph Brosaman, aged 81, a resident of Mount Ephram, and a boilermaker, employed at East. Greta Junction workshops, was…

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Canon's Death Mystery Strange Delusions Followed by Drowning Tragedy

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 2

Owing to the non-return from an early morning walk of Canon George Herbert Whitaker, 84, of Woughton Rectory, Bletchley, Bucks (Eng.),…

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Wheel Flies Off Motor Lorry Mother and Infant Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 1

A mother and her infant daughter were seriously injured on Wednesday when they were struck by a heavy when which flew off the broken axle…

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Accident in Port

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 4

Errol Forbes, waterside workers, of Pindimar, whilst engaged loading poles on the "Pert Walkato" last Saturday, sustained injuries to the…

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