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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

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Reg. Harris Seriously Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 2

Reg. Harris, Muswellbrook Club's guardian and well-known in sporting circles generally throughout the Upper Hunter, was seriously injured while…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle Tuesday, September 1, 1931. Muswellbrook Footballer. Reg. Harris Injured. Condition Regarded As Critical

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 2

Reginald Harris, a member of the Muswellbrook Football team which visited Tamworth on Saturday, received serious injuries to the…

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ACCIDENTS Compensation Court SYDNEY, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 1

The Acting Premier Mr, Baddeley, in reply to a question. said that only, two percent. of accidents under the Workers' Compensation…

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Bus Accident. Down Mountain MELBOURNE, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 September 1931 · page 2

When portion of the roadway gave way and a 'bus rolled down the mountain-side 18 passengers on Mt, Buffalo were…

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Horses in Heap Serious Gosford Smash Jockeys Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 September 1931 · page 7

Perhaps the most serious provincial smash for many years occurred at Gosford yesterday, when five horses fell in…

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Iniured Youth Displays Amazing Fortitude Arm in Machine Terribly Crushed Bakery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 September 1931 · page 5

Amazing fortitude was displayed by a youth when, at an carly hour this morning, his left arm became…

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£135 for Girl Sequel to Accident Ankle Fractured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 September 1931 · page 5

As a sequel to a motor accident, £135/4/ was paid into court to-day by Bert Hughes. of Railway Street. Merewether…

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Carter Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 September 1931 · page 2

Leslie Langdon, employed as carter by Mr. E. E. Winder, missed the footplate when attempting to jump on to the cart yesterday. He fell under the…

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Sequel to Boy's Fall Into Sewer Trench Coroner Returns a Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 September 1931 · page 1

At the Cessnock Courthouse on Wednesday, the District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) held an inquest touching the death of Francis…

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Hand Blown Off Girl Injured CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 5

Hazel Hopkinson 10, who resides with her parents at Kitchener, had her right hand blown off this afternoon…

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Gar and Lorry Collide Man Killed, Three Women Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 4

A collision between a motor car and a lorry, at the corner of Canterburyroad and Wiley's avenue, Lakemba, on Saturday night, resulted in the death…

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Struck by Car Hit-run Driver Badly Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 5

Struck by a motor car at the corner of Shorts and McGrane atreets, F. Davis of Miller-street Cessnock, was…

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Strange Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 6

A Mr. Monaghan while driving from Coff's Harbour to Kempsey, came Suddenly upon two cows on the roadside near Repten Jambig on the Brakes…

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Dropped Dead Racehorse Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 5

While jockey George Pope was exercising Spring Bark at Canterbury Racecourse to-day, the horse got out of control, crashed into the rails and…

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Through Window Motor Cyclist Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 September 1931 · page 6

Reginald Harold Henry, 29, of Colane-street, Concord Wost, was critically injured when he lost control of his motor cycle and was thrown through a…

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Branxton News a Collision

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 2

On Friday evening Miss E. Burns, of Lower Belford, in attempting to turn in High-street, Branxton, in her car ran into Mr L B. Picton's car,…

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Accident Relief £19,971 for Beneficiaries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 3

A departmental report dealing with the operations of the Minister Aceident Relief Act shows that during the year the allowance paid to…

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Model laws Reducing Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 4

The chactment of model lodistation government drivers' [?] compuascry inspection, financial responsibility and other regulations…

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Car Overturns Dr. Solling Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 4

When his car overturned near Hilldale yesterday, Dr. Maxsolling, of West Maitland, who was on his way to see a patient,…

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Pinned by Lorry Boy Frightfully Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 1

Although frightfully injured when crushed against the wall of a shop by a five-ton lorry which mounted the footpath at Camperdown yesterday,…

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