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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Earth and Moon Future Collision? Scientist's View

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 4

The time when there will be full moonlight all night long was described in a broadcast talk by Sir James Jeans, secretary of the Royal…

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Jaw Broken Hit by Cricket Ball Player Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 10

Mr. Donald Robson, of Dungog, met with a painful and unusual accident while playing in a cricket match at Fosterton…

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Fruit Scatter When Horse Bolted Driver Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 1

When a cart, laden with fruit, was being driven along Oxford Street, Paddington, this morning by Ernest Batemen, the horse…

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Train Accident Death Narrowly Averted BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

Shortly before noon yesterday the northern bound Townsville mail train crashed into a railway motor tricycle at Midgee, smashing it to…

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Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 8

Mr. B. Penton, of Harriett-street, who is 73 years of age, met with an accident on new year's Day. He was stepping from his cart his cart to…

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Two Drowned While Bathing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Two people lost their lives in the Thomson River, near Walhalla, yesterday. They were James Murray, 21 of Walhalla,…

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Bellbird Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

While following his occupation' as miner at Bellbird Colliery to-day, Thomas Murray, aged 25, was struck by a fall of coal, and received…

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Muswellbrook Boys' Heroism. Saves Girl from Drowning

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

We have just been advised at a very fine feat having been performed by Allan Peachey, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Peachey…

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Pillion Rider Killed Companion Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

Charles Barson, aged 19 years, was Hilled, and Alan Miller, aged 19, of Pitt-street, City, seriously injured when a motor cycle collided with a motor…

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Schoolboy Drowned Body Found in Four Feet of Water

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

A schoolboy, William Norman Rynun, aged 12 years, of Mimosa-road, Banks town, whilst bathing with, his, brother, Harold Rynan, aged 14 years, and other…

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Three Drowned. Tragedy on Wallis Lake. Motor Boat Sinks

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Three well-known residents of Tuncurry and Forster, Arthur Prior, aged 67; Geoffrey Prior, 25; and Stanley Hart, 27, were drowned OR…

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Passengers' Lucky Escape. Motor Truck Overturns Women Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Three persons travelling in a motor truck had a lucky escape from meeting with serious injury when it overturned at the foot of a hill, near…

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Double Fatality Eche of Maitland Road Smith. Coronial Inquiry Next

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

The Deputy Coroner (Mr. J. R. Scott) will held an inquiry, at Cessnock Courthouse next Thursday, into the tragic motor smash which…

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Men Buried Fall at Pelaw Main Three Injured Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

In a fall of coal which occurred about 11 o'clock this morning at Pelaw Colliery, three men were buried…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

Master Jeff. Newbery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newbery, of Mitchell-lane, Muswellbrook, while holidaying near Tamworth during Christmas, had the…

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Colliery Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

John Doyle, a miner, residing at Heddon Greta, mat with a painful mishap yesterday at Stanford-Merthyr co[?]ry…

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Thigh Broken Surfing Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

Struck by another surfer while bathing at Coogee Beach yesterday afternoon, Aubrey Walsh, 11, or Randwick, sustained a fractured…

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Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

During the holidays Mr. W. Duncan sustained severe injuries to his head through divine too deeply in the river at Fosterton. He struck bottom and…

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Horses Fall Riders Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 10

In the last race at Hill End on Friday, two horses came down. George Toohey (3), rider of Hopaway, suffered a fractured skull, besides…

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Truck Overturns Two Women Injured East Greta Accident East Greta

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 9

One woman was admitted to hospital, and another injured as the result of a motor truck, driven by Mr. B. Flick…

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