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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Struck by Stray Bullet Pelaw Main Youth Week-end Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 2

Playing in the bush at Neath Street, Pelaw Main on Sunday, John Williams,fifteen year youth, was shot in the…

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Unusual Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 4

An unusual accident occurred at the motor racing carnival at Granville yesterday. While riding In the side car of a machine driven by J. Vogst…

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Case Adjourned Echo of Kearsley Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 3

At the Cessnock Police Court to-day, Alfred Pickles was charged with driving a motor-cycle on which the tax had not been paid…

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Little Girl Dies Kearsley Motor Cycle Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 3

The little girl Ethel Sproston, who had been In a very precarious condition following the injuries she received through being knocked down by a…

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Motor Fatality Mrs. McGregor's Death the Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1932 · page 5

The inquest regarding the death of Mrs. Ita McGregor, who was killed in a motor accident at the foot of the Long Bridge on…

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Car Capsizes on Glendon Road Old Lady Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 October 1932 · page 1

When motor car capsised on he Glendon-road yesterday afternoon, Mrs. M. Hartcher, aged 70, of New Laraliton-road, sustained a fractured left…

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Car Falls 150 Feet. Occupants Only Slightly Injured. Katoomba

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 October 1932 · page 3

Six motorists had remarkable escapes from death or serious injury when their car rolled 150 feet down an embankment five miles from Mount Wilson…

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Car Overturns Accident Near Branxton Narrow Escapes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 October 1932 · page 4

A car load of passengers had a narrow escape from serious injury, yesterday afternoon when a sedan car, driven by Mr. Hartoher, ran off…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1932 · page 4

Phillip Rearce, 45, a miner, of 30 [?]gh-root, Cossnock, sustained an injury to his loft foct when caught by a full of coal in Abermain No. 2…

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Three Injured Fall of Earth in Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1932 · page 3

Three miners were injured when a fall a earth [?]urred at the Horseshoe mine, Kaigoorlie. The injured men are Joo Vulich…

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Fell Thirty Feet Boy Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1932 · page 1

Jack Hill [?] a downpipe at Bexley Public School last night, to recover his pet pigoon from the reef…

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Struck by Car Teacher Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1932 · page 5

Reg[?]ald Stewart Bignall, 39, of Waverley, a teacher at Clovolly Public School, was knocked down by a car at the intersection of [?] and…

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Two Killed Seven Injured Motor Smash Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 October 1932 · page 2

A message from Melbourne states that Harvey Chalmers, 22, market gardener, and REginald Harrison, 29, butcher, both of Dandenong…

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Old Man Killed Car Accident Victim SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 October 1932 · page 2

When he was struck by a car at Ashfield on Saturday night, Carl Lioban, 77, of Tintorn-road, was fatally injured…

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Compositor Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1932 · page 3

Joseph Paul (19), an appreciation compositor employed by the Hrian bane Courier Pty.,Ltd., was found drowned in the Young Mon'n…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 October 1932 · page 2

While following his occupation of miner, at Aberdare Central Colliery to-day, John Lane, 65, of 21 Bridge Street, Cessnock, received injuries to…

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Crossing Smash Man Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1932 · page 6

A, H, christonson received serious injurios when the butcher's lorry he Was driving collided with the Ground! mill locomotive and a string of…

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Sad Happening at Kearsley Little Girl Fatally Injured by Motor Cycle Coroner Returns Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 October 1932 · page 1

The death of the little girl Echel Sproston, aged 10, who was seriously Injured through being knocked dorm by a motorcycle at Kearsley on August 6, and who d[?] in Cessnock (Hospital on October S, formed the subject of an inquiry by the District Coroner…

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Operation After Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 October 1932 · page 1

On Wednesday last Mrs. A. McTaggart was engaged at her home, "Arizona," on the Wybong road, when she fell and sustained a fracture of the…

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Mine Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1932 · page 2

Albert Taylor, so a wheeler of paxton fractured his left leg and injured his right foot while working at stanford Main No.2 Colllery. Glendon…

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