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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

1,226 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 62

Three Killed Shocking Accident Vic. Collision Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 January 1933 · page 5

A shocking accident occurred near Werribee to-day, resulting in the death of three persons. The victims were Messrs. W. D…

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Child Fatally Injured Car Turned Over Five Times

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 January 1933 · page 1

Joyce Amy Brazel, aged 12, of Kempsey, was fatally injured when a motor-car left the road on a steep mountain near Bullahdelah and turned…

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Accident Inexplicable. Melbourne, Wednesday Afternoon

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 January 1933 · page 2

The victims of the smash, were W. D. Manning, G. Smith, and J. A. Little, all residents of Colac, who were in the car at the time…

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Girl Fatally Injured

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 3

Joyce Brazel, 12, of Kempsey died on Sunday morning from injuries received in a motor accident on the road between Bullahdelah and Nabiac on Saturday. A…

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Priest Drowned While Attempting to Rescue Man UNTIMELY? Cricket Protest Press Comment London, Jan. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 1

The "Daily Herald," in an editorial, says that the Australian Board of Controls protest at what it is pleased…

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Kurri Man Katoomba Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 7

While at the bottom of Linda Falls, Katoomba, Frack Lee (84), of Aberdare-street, Kurri Kurri, fell and fractured a leg. To being him to…

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Strange Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 10

An unusual accident occurred on Alcock's tennis court, Glen Innes, when Mr. R. Patterson, prior to the…

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Cars in Collision At Neath Hill Driver Arrested

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 8

As the result of a collision between two cars at the top of Neath Hill, at midnight on Tuesday, the driver of one of the cars— Patrick Hanson, of…

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Gored by Bull Father Killed, Son Injured

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 2

James Forrest (65), a farmer of Cacl, near Perth, was killed, and his son taken to hospital with several broken ribs when they were gored by a bull…

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Priest Drowned in Rescue Attempt Gave Life to Save Youth. Lifeboat Swamped

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 1

Father, Felix Conlon, S.J. a member of the staff of Xavier College, Melbourne, and attached temporarily to the Jesuit Novitiate, Loyola,…

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Road Accidents in England

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 7

Extensive inquiries by the National Safety First Association in England. have established the following intereating facts:—…

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Colliery Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 4

Caught between two skips while working at Eirington Colliery yesterday, John Kelly. 62, a miner, received Injuries to the ribs, and was…

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Boy Injured Struck by Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 January 1933 · page 4

First-aid was close at hand when Michael Connolly (10), of 20 Lindsay-street, East Maitland, was knocked down by a car opposite his home late…

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Child Drowned Gestures Unheeded SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1933 · page 2

A Melbourne message states that when a foreign woman frantically endeavoured to tell people at Parkdale Beach that a child was drowning…

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DR. A. A. KING Seriously Injured Motor Smash

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1933 · page 4

Word was received in Maitland last night that Dr. Aubrey King, who for many years practised his profession in Maitland and left 3½…

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Car Over Bank Week-End Accidents Lucky Escape Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1933 · page 2

When his car ran over an embankment while returning from a holiday at Bateman's Bay, with his wife, daughter and a boy…

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Priest Drowned. Rescuing Youth

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 2

Father Felix Conlon, S.J., a member of the staff of Xavier College, Melbourne, and attached temporarily to the Jesuit Novitiate, Loyola,…

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Valuable Blood Mare. Injured by Stray Bullet

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

Mr. Roy Wilkins, of Sandy Creek Road, received a stroke of load luck on Saturday night last, when a valuable blood mare, which…

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Explosion in Old Balmain Colliery Two Miners Badly Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 2

As the result of an explosion which occurred in the Old Balmain Colliery late yesterday afternoon, two miners were very seriously injured and were…

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The Late Joseph A. Heffernan. Coroner Holds Inquest. "Accidentally Killed."

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. W. T. Seaward) on Friday last conducted an inquest touching the circumstances surrounding the death of Joseph…

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