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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

1,341 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 68

Position Grave Rioting at Bombay Many Injured Calcutta, April 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 1

A grave situation is developing in Bombay, where fierce rioting between the cotton-mill strikers and police. followed the former's defiance of…

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Did Not Stop Motorist Charged Accident Sequel Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 7

Charged in Newcastle Court to-day with having been the driver of a motor car he did stop after an accident, Norman Harris (45), wine…

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Man Drowned Body Not Recovered SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 7

The man drowned near the Coast Hospital yesterday was William Fixton (28), of Little Bay. The body has not been recovered…

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Out of To-morrow's Game Bill Parker Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 5

Cessnock will be without the services of full-back Bill Parker in to-morrow's game against South Newcastle, at the Newcastle Sports…

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Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 4

Mr. J. Flood had a lucky escape from serious injury on Sunday last, when his car collided with a lorry owned by Mr. J. Stacey. The car was…

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Motor Cycle Accident Infant Thrown Out of Mother's Arms

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 5

Caught by its shawl, an infant's fall was arrested when it was thrown out of its mother's arms in a motor cycle accident, and it was saved from more…

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Boy Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 12

William Pearce, 2 son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pearce, of Tenterfield, was found drowned in the Tenterfield creek. The child had been playing…

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Two Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 12

When a motor car and a sulky came into collision at Brighton-[?]-Sands last night, Arthur Thompson, 26, of Mitchell-street, Bondi, suffered…

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Hit by Car Terribly Injured Was on Errand Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 1

Struck by a motor car as he was crossing the road in front of his home last night, Leslie Atkinson, 11, son of Major Atkinson, Corps Officer of…

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Hit by Car Labourer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 3

Hit by car at Broadmeadow on Saturday evening, John Patrick Callaghan, 48, labourer, of Hamilton, was severely injured, Callaghan was…

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Three Injured Swerved to Miss Cycle Lorry Overturns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 3

When a lorry skidded and overturned into a ditch after swearing to avoid a motor-cycle in Liverpool Road, Bankstown, on Sunday, three…

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Child Killed Pathetic Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 7

While crossing St. John's-road, Glebe, to-day, Bessie Stanley (8), was killed instantly when she fell beneath a lorry, and the back wheel passed…

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Road Accidents Many Week-end Smashes Fatal Injuries Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 2

Frederick John Charlesworth, 42, of Beach-street, Coogee, was fatally Injured on Saturday night, when a motor car struck a post…

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Fatal Accident Court Charge Follows SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 7

Following the fatal motor accident at Randwick on Saturday night, in which Frederick Charlesworth was killed, Albert Leslie Gordon (39), a…

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Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 2
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

Albert Overton, 49, living in Maitland land-road, Cessnock and employed at Aberdare Central colliery, was admitted to hospital with severe…

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Farmer's Death Magisterial Inquiry Accident Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 7

The accident at Lochinvar on the night of April 18, when Albert Ernest Philp (65), a Lochinvar dairy farmer, was struck by a…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Bob Landers, of Hanley's Creek, sustained a fall from the young horse he was riding and injured his head. He was…

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Hip Fractured Car and Cycle Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 3

On the Toronto-road at Teralba yesterday, a motor cycle and side-car, ridden by Mr. Anthony Porter, 25, of Fennell's Bay, with his mother as…

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Injured at Dance Goulburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 3

Lewis Sturgess, of Tarago, met with an unusual accident. When a square dance was in progress at Tarage golf house he received a bump on…

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