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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Gun Accident Leg Shattered

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 2

Albert Edward jackson (26), farmer of Attention when out fox shooting was sitting on a log with a made a waiting the arrival of the…

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Pelaw Main Miner's Death Evidence at Inquest. Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 3

The Kurri Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) conducted an inquest at the Kurri Courthouse yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the…

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A Chapter of Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 5

Misfortunes never come singly. After travelling all the way from St. Albans to Cessnock—a distance of 44 miles—to got medical treatment for…

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Four Injured Lorry Overturns ARMIDALE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 May 1932 · page 3

When a neavy-moon [?] over about 30 miles from Armidale, near Woodstock, Yurrowyck, four men employed by Foster's…

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Two Injured Motor Car Overturned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 3

Marly on Sunday morning, Frederick Underwood, 19, baker of Raymond Terraco, was driving a car along Helenst, Morowether, when it…

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In Bad Way Collision Victim Grave Injuries Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. When a motor cycle and car collided near Liverpool inst night both machines were wrecked…

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Serious Riots in India Many Killed and Injured British Troops Called Out (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Calcutta

Singleton Argus · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 1

Free rioting between Hindus and Moslems continued throughout Satuday and Sunday, resulting in 13 being killed and 250 injured…

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Leg Fractured Unusual Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 6

Erie Fisher, 40. has leg fractured in peculiar circumstances at Launceston. Twenty-five men word riding on a Launceston Council lorry…

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Accident to Mr C. A. Maguire

Singleton Argus · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 2

Mr Chas. A. Maguire, of Campbellstreet, met with an accident about 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. It appears that he was standing on a…

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Mine Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 3

David Henderson, 52, a shift man at the Coalellff Colliery was killed by a fall of stone in the colliery Four men who were working near…

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Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 7

Bartul Viscovitch, a jugesigy, was drowned in water hole in [?] Crick, Mosman, Q. He had gone away to spear fish in a deep hole, and…

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Cyclist Killed Head on Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 3

Geoffrey Charles Hellicar, of Kincumber was killed in a motor collision at Narara on Monday afternoon…

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SINGLETON Motor Lorry Fatality Driver Charged Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 2

In connection with the fatality at Redbournberry, on Saturday, when Valeric May Muller, four years, was run over by a lorry,…

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Collision on Aberdeen Road. Motor Car and Sulky

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 2

On Saturday last a runaway horse and sulky on the Aberdeen road collided with a motor car at the railway gates at the junction of the Kayuga…

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Peculiar Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 5

While Mr. C. Clay, a well-lviiown resident, was riding from Sydney-street to Bridge-street recently, and passing through the subway under the railway…

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Cessnock Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 6

Adam Frow was admitted to Cessnock Hospital yesterday afternoon with injuries to his foot, leg, and shoulder caused by a fall of coal in…

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Painful Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 2

On Wednesday George Townsend, attendant in Mr. A. Kennedy's fruit mart, Victoria-st., Taree, was cleaning some Shelves in the storeroom…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 3

Struck by a fall of coal at Aber-Extended Colliery yesterday, Adam Frew was admitted to Cessnock Hospital with injuries to his foot, leg and…

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Students' Prank Tramdriver Injured by Chemical

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 9

A phial containing an explosive was flung into a tram Parramatta-road, during student demonstrations. The victim, Albert Greer, attached…

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CLOUDBURST Worshippers Trapped Five Drowned Berlin, May 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 1

Praying in a church at Guel, near Coblenz, 35 people were trapped by a flood following a cloud-burst, which extensively damaged the…

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