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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

1,301 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 66

Railway Employee Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 3

While engaged in shunting operation, Mr, Ken Thorley had his hand badly crushed between couplings, He won taken to hospital for treatment,…

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Show Fatality. Well-known Rider Killed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 4

A fatality marred the ring events at Brisbane Show on Wednesday night, the well-known N.S. Wales rider, Geoffrey ("Snowy") Carr, losing his…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 2

On Sunday Mrs. Albert Burrage met with an accident which might have had very serious consequences. He was riding down Monkeral Hill…

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Youth Drowned. M[?]roubra Tr'agedy. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 4

Bert Auberson, 19, a movie-picture operator, was drowned in Maroubra Bay this morning. He was in a canoe some distance…

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Canoe Overturns Young Man Drowned in Maroubra Bay. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 2

Bert Auberson, aged 19, a moving picture operator, was in a canoe at Maroubra Bay this morning, when the craft overturned, throwing him into…

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Car Over Bank. Two Men Injured. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 7

Imprisoned in a car which turned over several times it toppled over a ste[?]n wooled slope on the Newcastle-Sydney road, about eight…

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Child Killed. Peculiar Flying-boat Fatality. Rome. Aug. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 5

When a giant flying-boat took off from Lussino, the propellor blade broke off and was hurled into the passenger…

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Cycle Skidded. Fatal Accident at Cessnock. Accidental Death. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 4

At Cessnock Courtheuse to-day, the coroner, Mr. Scott, conducted an inquest concerning the death of Edward Bates, 50, of Muswellbrook, who…

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Ferry Accident, on Hawkesbury River. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 5

Tending an Inquiry into the [?] to the vehicular ferry at the Hawkesbury [?] crossing yesterday, he captain and engineers have been…

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Colliery Employee Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 5

Lyall Peters, 23, an employee of Abermain No. 2 Colliery, was to-day admitted to Cessnock Hospital as a result of injuries received whilst at…

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Quarry Fatality. Struck by Falling Rook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 8

Working at the quarry of the [?]orthcots Brickworks (Vic.) John Baker, of Mansfield-street, Northcote, was struck on the head by a…

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Echo of Motor Cycle Fatality Crashed Into Telegraph Pole in Hall Street Coroner Returns Verdict of Accident Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 6

At the Cessnock Courthouse, yesterday the Deputy Coroner (Mr. J. R. Scott) held an inquiry concerning, the death of Edward Thomas Bates…

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Channel Disaster. Yacht Founders in Storm. Six Drowned. London. Aug. 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 1

In the worst Channel gale since November, the eight-ton auxiliary, yacht Islander broke up in furious [?] off St. Austell to-day. All on…

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Railway Guard Injured Skull Fractured in Fall. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 8

Walter West, aged 39, a railway guard, fell 25 feet over a bri[?]k wall at the side of the railway embankment at Stanmore this morning…

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£1000. Award in Accident Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

A verdict for [?] was given Alfred Bertram Butler, of Chatswood, by the jury in the Jury Court Sydney, in an action which he brought against…

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Local and General ACCIDENT

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon, the well-known local auctioneer, Mr. Dick Abbott, whilst riding over his property at Stroud Hill, sustained a fall…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 4

Mr. George Dvies whilst working on the s.s. "Coweambah," loading timber from Nelson's (Bay wharf, received an injury to one of his legs…

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Shunting Fatality Married Man Killed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 4

Walter Gibbons, 58, a married man, and a resident of Ouyen, Vic, was killed during shunting operations at the Ouyen railway station last…

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Girl Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 4

Mary Stephens, 10, of Mt. Pleasant-street, West Maitland, was admitted to Riverview Private Hospital on Saturday afternoon, suffering from a…

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Toll of the Road Accidents in Victoria

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 4

Two men were killed and five others injured in motor accidents in Victoria yesterday. Prank Storer, aged 28, engineer, of…

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