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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Two Drowned AUCKLAND

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 July 1932 · page 1

Two fishermen at Glucina were drowned off Whangarei Heads when their boat capsized as they were hauling…

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Footballer Injured a Fractured Skull. Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 July 1932 · page 2

John Titus, a prominent Richmond, footballer and Interstate player, who, it was first thought, had fractured his nose in a match on Saturday against…

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Barque Rammed by Steamer Sinks in Five Minutes Captain and 10 Men Drowned

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 July 1932 · page 4

The British oil tanker Seminole and the Finnish barque Melbourne came into collision off Light, near Cork, on Friday night. The…

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Three Injured Mining Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 3

Sydney Farray, 42, a miner, living at Neath, had the first finger of his left hand severed, while working at Neath colliery…

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Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 3

Arthur Day, 70, of Gordon, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon, when he was knocked down by a motor car. He was hurried to the…

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Mine-workers Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 3

As a result of being struck by a fall of coal, while following his occupation as clipper at Aberdare Extended Colliery yesterday, Aleric Good…

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Five Injured Car Hits Bowser SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 1

Five people were injured early this morning when the car in which they were riding crashed into a petrol pump at Annandale. Mrs…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 6

Mr. Reg Coppard on Thursday, met with a nasty accidcnt which, fortunately, did not have very serious results. Mr. Coppard was exercising a horse on…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 5

Mr. Jack Campbell, son of Rev. Reay Campbell and Mrs.. Campbell, suffered severe abrasions as a result of a motor cycle accident. The…

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Cars Collide Bellbird Accident Damages Claim

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1932 · page 5

A claim for £62 as compensation for damages received in a motor collision at Skinner's Hill, near Bellbird, on…

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Between Platform and Train Chinese Critically Injured. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 July 1932 · page 2

Painful injuries were received by a Chinese, Fong Low, aged 59, a gardener, when he fell between a moving train and the platform at Turramurra…

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Mine Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 July 1932 · page 7

Joseph Shakespeare, 19, employed at Cessnock No. 2 colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital with an injury to the third finger of his right…

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Two Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 8

Harold Yates 14, while riding a bicycle at Goulbura was struck by a car, and one of his rids was fractured. His couain Margaret…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 5

Struck by a fall of coal while following his occupation of miner at Aberdare Extended Colliery yesterday, John Sneddon, 45, received…

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Car Smash Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 6

John Glimore, 15,a minor, residence at Gilles street, Kurri kurri, was injured when a motor our sinced and overturned on the maitland…

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Injured Hand Caught in Mangle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 5

Mlan McQueen (50), a laundrous, employed at the Calodeuain Hotel, West Maitland, suffered a painful injury, to her hand this morning,…

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Collision Between Cars Settlement in District Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 2

At Maitland District Court, before his Honor Judge Sheridan, a settlement was announced by Mr W. J. Enright, who appeared for the plaintiff, in an…

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Echo of Motor Collision Verdict for Plaintiff

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 2

The case in which Alfred Francis Alexander Parker, postmaster at Wollimbi, claimed from Richard Andrew Sweetman, sawmill proprietor, of Mill…

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Submarine Disaster Sixty-six Drowned. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Cherbourg

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 1

Sixty-six were drowned in a French submarine which sunk suddenly in 150 feet of water while performing surface tests, in the roadstead, seven miles…

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Accident at Football

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1932 · page 5

Mr. R. Farley, one of Stroud's leading footballers was severely injured at Bullahdelah on Saturday. He came heavily to the ground as the result of…

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