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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Twelve Injured In Submarine LONDON, Feb. 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 5

The Admiralty announces that an accident occurred in submarine 11, in the Thames Estuary. An explosion took place in…

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'Plane Crash In London Garden Two Injured London, Feb. 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 8

Luck aud skill combined to avert a disaster when an Avro biplane, piloted bv Richard Bush accompanied by Stanley Rodwell…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 7

John Westlake, of Bellbird, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital last evening, suffering from an injured right hand, sustained when he was…

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SINGLETON Found Unconscious Riding Accident Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 10

As the result of a nasty fall from a horse, Mr. Jack Andrews, aged 30, a married man, erising at St. Clair, is now an…

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Woman Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

Knocked down by a motor car on the Cardiff-road, Cardiff, Mrs. Mary Gimber, 39, of Cardiff, suffered a probable fracture of the skull. She was…

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Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

George Hunter, 31, of James-street, Hamilton, suffered broken right ribs in a spill from a motor cycle which he was riding on the old speedway. He…

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Two Married Women Drowned

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

Florence Murray, aged 25, wife of Edward Murray, telephone mechanic, and Rose Pines, aged 44, wife of Fredcrick Pines, Canonbar Pastures…

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Smart Rescue Drowning Girls. SYDNEY, Monday. [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

[?] men acted with such alacrity when called to University Park yesterday afternoon that they…

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Three Injured Car and Sulky Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 4

A motor our and a sulky came into collision on the East Maitland road, near the Victoria Bridge corner, early on Sunday morning, and three young…

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Cliff Falls. Jockey Injured MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

William Ryan, a well-known cross-country rider, had an unenviable experience at Nepunga, near Warnamboool yesterday…

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Three Drowned Launch Capaizes Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

Three lives were lost off a lonely stretch of coastline at Tera-whitl, near Wellington, early on Sunday morning, when a fishing…

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Hole in Path Woman Injured Council to Pay Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

Verdicts for £24 were given against Newcastle City Council in Newcastle District Court…

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Cyclist Collides with Car Italian Fatally Injured. Attempted to Avoid Pedestrianism. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 2

Riding a bicycle at Bankstown late last night, Joseph Raphaelo, an Italian, collided with a motor ear driven by a Woman, and died shortly afterwards…

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Newcastle Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

Edward Young, 48, of Mayfield, suffered a fracture of the left leg: and James Moore, 29, also of Mayfield, a probable fracture of the pelvis, when…

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Two Drowned Boat Capsizes Rescue Efforts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 4

When their fishing boat capsized in Botany Bay yesterday afternoon two members of a party were drowned, despite the…

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Three Killed. Aeroplane Crash. Fatality in Queensland Engine Failed. Rockhampton

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Three lives were lost at Rolleston on Saturday when, as the result of the engine stalling, a Gypsy Moth aeroplane crashed to earth from a…

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GLOUCESTER Shooting Accident Loss of Toe

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 2

Mr. H. Patrick, a young man lately residing at Lambton, was shooting with a friend at Baker's Creek, and when getting through a barb wire…

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Peculiar Accident 8-Inch Splinter in Boy's Leg

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 3

Arnold Caban, nine years of age, is still in the Cessnock Hospital, recovering from an injury to his leg, received in December, when he fell…

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Found Dead Collision with Horse Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 4

Motoring home from a dance yesterday, Joseph Clarkson, 20, employed by T. Shoa, of Bacchus Marsh, collided with a wandering horse…

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Tragedy in Botany Bay Two Men Drowned

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 1

Two men were drowned in Botany Bay on Monday afternoon when their fishing boat overturned near Ramsgate. They were Sidney Alfred Walker,…

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