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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

1,226 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 62

Artificial Foot a Great Success. Echo of Accident to Cessnock Boy

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 5

Lionel Sydney Patten, the Cessnock boy who three years ago had the misfortune to lose a foot as the result of a lorry accident has how been…

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Diving Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1933 · page 6

Diving into shallow water at All Worth, near Booral, on Sunday, Fred Williamson, 28, cole-street, Islington, struck head the bottom, and…

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Harbour Thrills Speedboat Accidents SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 December 1933 · page 2

A great deal of excitement prevailed on sydney Harbour when the speed boat Century Tire, while travelling at 50 miles an hour in a trail…

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Cars in Collision Narrow Escape from Injury

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 December 1933 · page 3

During the week-end Mr. H. Lett and Mr. J. Berry had a narrow escape from serious injury, when the car in which they were travelling…

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Car Accident. Culvert Needs Wings

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1933 · page 2

A car driven by Mr. Geoff. Pike, of Ward's River, met with an accident on Saturday night about 8.30 p.m. When he was travelling down Hooke…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1933 · page 2

Whilst using a broad-axe in the bush above Fosterton, on Friday, Mr. Max Quinn sustained a severely cut leg, some 27 stitches being found…

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Little Girl's Painful Accident Nose Broken While Playing

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 December 1933 · page 3

While playing at her home on Sunday afternoon, Marie Todd, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Todd, met with a paintful…

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Drowned in Stormwater Channel

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1933 · page 3

Barry Thomas M'Hugh, aged two, was drowned at Bankstown on Monday, afternoon, when he crawled through the entrance of a drain and foil into:…

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Motorists Injured Encountered Mob of Cattle

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1933 · page 1

While motoring along the Forbes road, 14 miles from Orange, Mr A. Spencer and Miss M. Kennedy, both of Orange encountered a mob of cattle…

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Moth Aeroplane's Dive Pilot Not Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1933 · page 2

Thomas Johnson ,aged 42, an aircraft inspector' attached to the Civil Aviation Department at Mascot, narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday when a…

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Dog, Overturns Canoe a Boy Drowned

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 1

A pet dog overturned a tin canoe in Duck Creek, Granville, on Wednesday, and Ronald Edward Pox, aged 13, of Granville, was drowned. Francis Bede…

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Fall From Bicycle School Boy Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 10

A fall from a bicycle, on Tuesday last, resulted in a badly broken arm for Max Brind (12), of Deninan. The boy was returning from school, when the…

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Miner Buried Badly Injured BATHURST

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 8

Albert Roberts, 53, miner, underwent an ordeal when he was crushed beneath a large quantity of earth and stones at the bottom of a 40ft, shaft…

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Injured List League Tourists LIKELY, December 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1933 · page 1

Madson's knee was again trouble some after training to-day revealed there was no cartilego trouble. Hoy…

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Head Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1933 · page 5

During a storm William Irwin, 64, was struck by a falling branch of a tree, at Grafton, and suffered injuries to the head. He was found…

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Two Drowned Quarry Hole Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 3

Richard Norris, 10, and Eric William Sly, 17, both of Clayon, were drowned in 10ft, of water in a quarry hole at Clayton, Vic, on Sunday…

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Man Dies Motor Car Collision NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 1

William Calderwood (21), unemployed, of Swansod, who was injured last night when a car and motor lorry collided died in Newcastle Hospital…

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Two Injured Gar Hits Tram SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 2

Joyce Folks, 18, of Newtown, received a fractured left thigh, lacerations to the face and hands, and severe shock, and Joseph Mckcae,…

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Man Killed Road Accident Fractured Skull Fractured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1933 · page 4

Nisbet Easton, 40, Solwyn-street, Morewether, who was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a fracture of the…

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Cessnock Jockey Injured Maitland Races Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 December 1933 · page 3

An unfortunate accident happened hi the Novice Handicap at Maitland last Saturday, when a young Cessnock apprentice…

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