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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

1,226 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 62

Kurri Drowning Fatality. Coroner's Inquest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

The Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) will conduct an inquiry on Thursday next, January 12, at 10 a.m. into the circumstances…

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Carter Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

Jack Gibson, 18, of 48 Odd-street, West Maitland, a coal-carter, employed by [?] Colliery, [?], had the first joint of the second finger…

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Boy Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 2

While riding a horse on Wednesday morning, Jack Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dunn, of Carl-street, was thrown by the animal, and received…

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Cricket Fatality SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 1

While playing cricket at National Park, David Hitch enson (55), of Helensburgh, was struck in the side by a…

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Another Bridge Fatality. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 2

The body of a woman who hurled herself from the Harbour Bridge last night was recovered this morning in Lavender Bay, and removed to the…

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Eight Injured Truck Over Bank

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 2

Eight persons were injured, one seriously, when a motor utility truck overturned on the Yeppen-road, eight miles from Rockhampton…

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Struck Post Motor Cyclist Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 8

Thomas Winter, of Coogee, sustained a compound fracture of the skull and abrasions when a motor-cycle, which he was riding skidded…

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Ran Into Motor Car During Storm. Railway Porter Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 1

The violent storm at Muswellbrook on Wednesday evening was directly responsible for an accident in Market-street, as a result of…

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Demented Man Fires Shots Condition of One Victim Critical. Two Others Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 6

Becoming temporarily demented, James Joseph Dennett, aged 68, shot and injured three persons at Clevelly yesterday morning…

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In Hospial. Car Accident Victim. Remarkable Escape

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 1

Mr. Peter Griffiths, who received injuries to the base of the skull as a result of a motoring accident on the Aberdeen road on the 23rd. ult., is…

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Fatally Hurt Car Accident Driver Charged Orange

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 3

When a motor car travelling from Lucknow ran off the road, dropped down a 12ft ombankmont and overturned, Francis Mannix, 36, of Orange…

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ACCIDENTS. During The Holidays

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 5

Whilst Mr. E. T. Oram, Police Magistrate was motoring from Taree towards Dungog, he met trouble on the well-known "Linger and Die" hill. His…

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Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

Several nasty accidents occurred over the holidays. Mr. W. J. Avery, of Tea Gardens, while motoring to Bullahdelah, met with disaster at a…

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Preventing Road Accidents New British Scheme

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 8

As to conferences between the British Ministry of Transport and various road-users' organisations, a new scheme has been evolved whereby…

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Drowned in Creek Nowra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 7

Fredrick Pincheme (46) was drowned when he fell into the YalWal Greek, near here,on Friday…

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HOOFBEATS A. Reed Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 11

A Melbourne message states that Jockey A. Reed sustained concussion of the spine and a fractured arm when Rarhy fell in the Maiden Plate…

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News in Brief. Labourer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 6

When a large billet of wood he was taking from a sulky rolled on his leg yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hook (45), a labourer, living at 21 Ward-street,…

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Serious State Injured Child Fall From Cliff Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1933 · page 1

The three-year-old child, Dorothy Halstend, who was badly injured by falling from a cliff into a street at Miller's Point, her mother being…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 2

Archibald Thredgate, aged 21, of Greta, died in the Maitland Hospital yesterday from a fracture of the skull received when his motor cycle came…

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