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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 2

Members of the Scone Band, returning by lorry from Moonan Flat on Sunday morning last, had a most unenviable experience and providental…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 June 1932 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon a motor cycle driven by John Davies, 43, and in which his daughter, Olga 17, was a passenger in the side car, over…

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Child Injured Struck by Motor Car KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1932 · page 7

At about 5.45 last night a car, driven by Robert Stanley Logue, of View-street, Cessnock, which was proceeding to Maitland knocked…

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Accidents. Boy Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 8

Little Ken Reynolds the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Reynolds, met with a very nasty accident on Saturday. He was playing on the…

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Collision Fortunate Escape

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 8

A serious accident was narrowly averted at the corner of Vennacher and McCartney-streets on Saturday morning. Mr. Stan Spilsted was…

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Bush Epic. Injured Prospector's Courage Comrade's Loyalty

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 June 1932 · page 7

An epic of human courage and endurance was told when a 68-year-old prospector named William Allison, who broke his left leg in rough…

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Car Fatality Victorian Mishaps Others Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 2

On Sunday in Melbourne, George William Jervis, 74, died from injuries received when knocked down by a car at the corner of Montague and…

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HOOFBEATS Filly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 7

The three-year-old [?]naid, owned by Mr. W. H. Mackay, and trained by George Bailey, was injured on Saturday. She was…

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Car Capsized Woman Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 3

Getting out of control while descending Kalamunda Hill (W.A.) on Sunday afternoon, a car crashed into the side of a hill and Mrs. E. Spear,…

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"Welcome" Port Boisterous Trip Crew Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 5

The British freighter "Welcome," which arrived to-day from New Zealand, encountered terrific weather during the voyage. A native…

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Struck Pole Motor Car Crash Priest Injured Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 4

When his car and another, driven by Mr. R. E. Smith, of Cessnock, collided in Chinaman's Hollow on Saturday night, Father M. O'Dwyer, of…

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Condition of Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 2

Medical reports indicate that the head injuries suffered in Tuesday's riot by Police-Sergeant A. Westig, of Lambton, are considerably more serious [?]…

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Manilla Fatality Cart and Car Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 3

Mr. Charles Arthur Baker (57), a business man of Manilla, was driving a cart when he was struck by a motor car and thrown heavily to the…

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Motor Mishap Father O'Dwyer Hurt in Collision. Cessnock Party's Escape

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 1

As a result of a motor accident at Western on Saturday night, Father M. O'Dwyer, of Kurri Kurri, was admitted to the Kurri Hospital suffering…

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Ripped Open. Explosion on Oil Tanker. 23 KILLED; 63 Injured. Montreal

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 3

Twenty-three were, killed and sixty-three injured in a series of explosions which ripped the oil tanker Cymbeline wide open while under repairs in the…

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Clay for Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1932 · page 6

And, speaking of clay, there was a certain clay at Cooplacurripa that was largely used in connection with accidents by the blacks. I remember a…

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Car Over Three Injured Sudden Slip Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1932 · page 1

Skidding on a slippery patch of Liverpool-road, Bankstown, to-day, a motor car overturned, and three…

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Collision at Limeburners

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1932 · page 3

A collision between two-motor-cyclists at Limeburners' Creed last Sunday, resulted in three people being treated at Newcastle Hospital. Albert Casey, 3, and…

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Accident Victim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1932 · page 10

Knocked down and seriously injured by a motor car, while on her way to church at Northcote, on Sunday night, Mrs. Florence Hicks, 40,…

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Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 June 1932 · page 2

Whilst employed at the Freezing Works siding on Monday last Mr. Frank Phelps was jammed between, a truck and the platform, and suffered nasty…

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