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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

1,143 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 58

Searching for Wreckage Man Reported Drowned at Long Bay Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 6

A message reached the Dacyville police this morning that a man was drowned at Long Bay while searching for the wreckage of the Malabar…

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Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 7
Also in The Scone Advocate

On Thursday morning, 2nd. inst., William Osborn, a mutton slaughterman at the freezing works, sustained a very bad knife wound in the course…

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Safety First Echo of Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 3

The tragic collision between a motor car and a bicycle on the East Maitland Road recently, the resulted in the death of…

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The Final Echo Tragic Motor Smash on Maitland-road. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 5

The final echo of the tragic motor smash which occurred on the Maitland-road, Cessnock, on the evening of December 22, and in which Robert…

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Two Drowned Byron Bay Fatality Boys Carried Out Lismore

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 5

A double drowning tragedy occurred at Byron Bay yesterday afternoon when the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. Weir, of…

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Boy Shot Tingha Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 1

Thomas Smith, 16, was walking along the road at Tingha, carrying a rifle. His younger brother was some distance behind when he heard a…

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Show Accident Nina Clark Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 11

Nina Clark, 23, of Toowoomba (Queensland), received a probable fracture of the spine when she was thrown from a horse in the ring at…

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Two Drowned Mother and Daughter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 11

Mrs. Wilfred Hobbs and her daughter, of Horsham, Vic, were drowned in the Wimmera River. Mrs. Hobbs and some friends…

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Lorry Fatality Little Boy Killed NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 6

Struck by a motor lorry near the intersection of Kenrick and Union Streets, Junction, late yesterday afternoon, John Wiliam…

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Six Injured In Car Smash BATHURST

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 11

Six persons were injured in a collision between two cars on the Sydney road, outside Bathurst, last night. They were:…

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DUNGOG Painful Accident Soda in Eye

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 8

Mr. Jack Southan, an employee at Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory, met with a painful accident whilst breaking up caustic soda…

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Child's Death Result of Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 12

The City Coroner to-day inquired into the death of Holly Eleanor Thompson (10), who died as a result of injuries received when struck by…

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Serious Petrol Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 8

Whilst Mr. J. Griffiths, proprietor of a motor garage in Sydney-street, Muswellbrook, was engaged in filling a car bowser with petrol the oil…

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Damages Awarded Motor-Sulky Collision Court Story

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 5

A collision between a car, driven by Jack Suters, and a sulky, driven by James Feeney, near the Victoria Bridge, on the East Maitland-road, on…

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Man Killed Car Strikes Tree Six Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 6

Danlel Ryan, of newtown, was killed, and four women and two men were hurt, when a motor car crashed into a tree on the side of the Western…

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Many Injured Dynamite Explodes CAIRO, April 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 1

Several Europeans and many natives were injured when the exploded a quantity. of dynamite at the As[?]lan Dam, causing damage…

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Car Smash on Mountain Road Driver Killed, Others Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 1

Daniel Ryan of Newtown, was killed, and four women and two men were hurt, when a motor, car crashed into a tree on the side of the Western-road…

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Explosion in Egypt Heroic Attempt Fails. Europeans and Natives Killed and Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Cairo

Singleton Argus · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 2

When a fire broke out at the Assouan Dam, the British engineer in charge made frantic efforts to prevent it reaching the dynamite shed…

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Cars in Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1931 · page 2

Between 6.30 and 7 o'clock on Thursday evening two cars came into collision between the Homestead and Jack's Lane turn-off on the Stroud…

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