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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

1,226 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 62

Two Injured Car Strikes Bicycle CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1933 · page 10

Thomas Roddom, of Paxton, was driving a car from Cessnock to Bellbird last night when it collided with a bicycle ridden by WIlliam Thomas…

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Man Fined Collision Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 5

A collision at Four-mile Creek on the Maitland-road, on June 16, had a sequel at the East Maitland Court of Petty Sessions to-day, when Richard…

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Badly Injured Golfing Mishap Loose Club-head Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 1

Percy Baker, a well-known golfer, was the victim of a remarkable accident at Titirangi Golf House during the week-end…

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Cars Collide Accident at Tarro

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1933 · page 5

Motor cars driven by Mr. Herbert Lysaght, of Darling McGilvary, of Lismore-street, Abermain collided on the…

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Footballer Injured. Kurri Player

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

While playing football at Cessnock on Sunday, Walter Johns, 24, of Rawson Street, Kurri Kurri, injured his right shoulder. He was conveyed to…

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Car Smashes Passengers Pinned Five Injured Armidale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 8

A car left the road when the lights failed, and fell down an 8ft, embankment on the Armidale-Grafton road, five passengers…

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Woman Killed When Car Somersaults Over Bank Fell 30Ft. Another Hurt Sad Accident Murrurundi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 1

Early on Monday morning Mrs. Hilton Doyle, of Merawah Station, Boggabilla, left Goondiwindi in a…

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Shocking Car Accident. MRS. J. H. Doyle Killed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

The distressing news of a fatal car accident involving the death of Mrs. J. H. Doyle, reached Scone early last evening, and has cast a gloom over the…

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Fractured Left Forearm Simple Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 3

Bruce Purser, an employee at Farr's Markets, fractured his left forearm in a simple work yesterday…

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Inquest Opened Kankool, Fatality Car Smash

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 2

MURRURUNDI, Wednesday. The inquest was formally opened by the District Coroner (Mr. G.B.White). into the cause of death of…

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Young Man Shot Dead Fatality at Quirindi

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 1

Ross-Chapple, a god 20, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Chapple, of Quirindi, was shot dead on Monday afternoon. With a companion, he was shooting on the…

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Police Car Skids Four Detectives Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 2

Four detectives had narrow escapes last evening, when the northern suburbs. wireless patrol and overturned in pittwater-road, St. Ives…

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Car Smash Detectives Injured Narrow Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 5

When a wireless patrol car skidded and overturned an the edge of a 30 foot embankment in Pittwater-road, St. Ives, four detectives…

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Car, Falls Into Creek Tragic Accident at Murrurundi

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 1

Mrs Hilton Doyle, of Goondiwindi, Queensland, was killed when the cur in which she was travelling to Murrurundi full into a creek on Monday afternoon…

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Car Fatality Medical Evidence Driver's Condition Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 7

An inquest was held at Cessnock Courthouse to-day by the District Coroner, Mr. W. S. Johnston, into the death of Herbert…

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Kitchener Road Motor Fatality. Story at To-day's Inquest. South Cessnock Youth's Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 3

When a motor car crashed over a bridge on the Cessnock-Kearsley road at about 11 p.m. on June 14th, Herbert Bradley Black, of McFarlane Street, South Cessnock, was killed almost instantly. Four…

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N.R.M.A. ADVICE After an Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 5

The N.R.M.A. advises motorists that when they are involved in an accident it is most essential for them to obtain the name and address of…

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Fatal Lorry Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 3

While coming from Dungog last night to Clarencetown with two others, in a motor lorry, Mr. Patrick Foley, a well known resident of Clarencetown, was killed…

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Peculiar Cart Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 2

There was an unusual accident in Brown Street, Newcastle when the wheels of a cart which was standing at the top of a steep hill shipped on the wet…

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Tragic Boating Fatality 12 Boys and a Priest Drowned. Paris

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 6

When one of a party of 16 boys fell into the river from a flat-bottomed boat near Argent, the others crowded to the side, causing the craft to overturn, with…

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