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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

1,341 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 25 of 68

Government Official Drops Dead at Wheel of Car ACCIDENT Two Injured Son Lucky Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 1

Geoffrey Smith (14) had a narrow escape from serious injury to-day when his father, Percy Smith (54), an audit…

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Miners Hurt Bellbird Accidents CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 7

Two minors employed at Bellbird Colliery were admitted to the Cessnock Hospital to-day as a result of accidents…

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Fatal Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 3

Three hours alter a log rolled over him, Edward A. Ford, of Stroud, died on Thursday last. He was working in the Ebsworth Brush with his father, Mr. R…

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Injured Finger

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 7

When a spanner slipped at South Maitland Railways workshops to-day, Richard Moore, a bollermakers' assistant, of Louth Park-road, West…

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Staging Crashed Man Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 4

John Tolj, 30, a Yugoslav, employed by the Lake View and Star Co., died in the Kalgoolie Government Hospital as a result of injuries suffered…

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Man for Trial Sequel to Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 4

The district corner conducted an inquiry at Maclean into the death of Mary Johnson, who was fatally injured by a motor car on Woodford…

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Child Drowned Mother's Tragic Find

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 May 1934 · page 7

Violet Mary Rushton, a 19 months old child was found by her mother drowned in a pit in the back-yard of her home at Queanbeyan…

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Fall in Mine Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 May 1934 · page 12

While working in a gold mine at Wyalong. Mr. Bert Beazley, a prospector and his brother Frank were injured…

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Youth Dies Sequel to Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 May 1934 · page 7

Mervyn Harrison (17), of Hunter-street, West Maitland, who sustained a fractured skull and other injuries when his bicycle collided with a…

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Fatal Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 May 1934 · page 1

Struck by a car at Redfern to-day, Robert Bee, aged, about 45, had his skull fractured, and died in…

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Boy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1934 · page 5

Norman Moody, 13, of Abermain, yesterday fell down an embankment while playing. He was admitted to Kurri Hospital with injuries to his…

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Ghastly Wound Shooting Fatality Was on Holidays Forster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1934 · page 1

Ray Fagan, 32 years of age an orchardist, of Lisarow, who arrived with his wife and two children last night to spend a holiday, was the…

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Five Deaths Week-end Mishaps Fatal Collision Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1934 · page 2

During the week-end there were numerous road accidents and a number of persons fatally injured. Ernest Blanch, 39, of Strathford,…

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Football Supporters Injured Lorry Dives Over Embankment. Dorrigo

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 May 1934 · page 2

Driving over the edge of the road and falling 20 feet down an embankment, a lorry containing a party of football supporters came to rust on a…

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Leg Broken Football Accident Maitland Player

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1934 · page 7

Don Fleming, a well-known district footballer and a member of Maitland United Rugby League Club, had his left leg fractured during the country…

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Maitland Team's Joy of Victory Marred by Fleming's Accident Forward's Leg Broken Cessnock in Brilliant Form Big Scores in All Games

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 May 1934 · page 9

So far as Maitland United was concerned, Saturday brought both gladness and gloom. The joy of a convincing victory over Central, the joint leaders in the competition when the game commenced, was marred when the news came from…

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Elrington Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 May 1934 · page 2

Arthur Reay, a miner at the Ellrington Colliery, and residing at Old School Hill, Abermain, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri District Hospital…

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Eye Removed Miner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1934 · page 4

Arthur Charles Lowis, 54, a minor employed at Elrington colliery, and living in Aberdare-road, Aberdare, was struck by a fall of coal yesterday…

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Boy Drowned Fell from Bridge SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1934 · page 4

When he stumbled because of a lame log, Ronald Henricksen, 10, or St. Peter's fell from a bridge over a crook near his home last night, and…

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Guard Killed Crushed Between Trucks Spine Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1934 · page 5

G. George Whittaker, a railway guard, of Nelson-street, Mayfield, was caught in an automatic coupling white a train was shunting at Teralba…

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