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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Double Drowning Facility Boat Capsizes at Hexham Woman and Child Were VICtIMS

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1

There was a distressing occurance at Hexham on Sunday afternoon, when a woman and child were drowned after a beat…

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Terrific Storms. Woman Killed by Lightning Woman, Girl, and Two Boys Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 5

Pive deaths occurred during the terrific storms which swept the central and south-eastern parts of the State during the week-end…

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Cut Corner Sharply Lorry Driver Fined Echo of Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 3

An echo of an incident in which a motor lorry driven by William Charles Harrison collided with a youthful cyclist at the intersection of Vincent…

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Five Injured Two Accidents Tram Collision Melbourne, Wednesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 1

Within the space of a few minutes, two accidents in which two trams and a motor car were involved, occurred in St. Kilda-road this mor-…

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Doctor Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 6

Dr. J. L. Davies, of Richmond, suffered a fractured collarbone when a car overturned owing to the storm and landed in a drain. Mr. C. B…

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Body Found Drowning Case GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 5

The body of William McCaughey, 13, who last his life while trying to save a man and girl from drowning in the Nymholda River on Sunday, was…

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Fell Into River Patient Drowned SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 4

Wandering from the mental hospital at Wilson Island, Hawkesbury River, yesterday, an inmate, John Camphield, 21, fell into the river and…

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Human Torch Woman Terribly Burnt Cessnock Fatality Cessnock, Wednesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 7

At the inquest to-day into the death of Alice Vera Durie, 35, who was fatally burnt at her home in Alexander-street, on December 19,…

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Struck by Wheel Accidental Death NEWCASTLE, Wednesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) at the inquest hold at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into the…

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Drowning Fatality

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

During the storm at Hexham on Sunday afternoon, a boar capsized and Mrs. Florence Germyn, (34), of Weston, and Bernice Ellis, (7), of Kurri were drowned…

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Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

William Dronnant, of Tenterfiold was drowned in a flooded crook near Stanthorpo (Q.), He was accompanied by his son, who after swimming a…

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Rider Injured Swerved and Fell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Swerving to avoid striking a child, who ran across in front of his motorcycle, Robin Willard (19), living at Campbell's Hill, West Maitland was…

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Two Injured Steel Works Mishap NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 5

when the top or au empty acter , tank, on which they were working, foil in at the B.H.P. Company's Steel Works yesterday, two workmen fell…

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Tragic Motor Smash on the Hume Highway Three Dead Eight Injured Coach in Flames Gundagai

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 7

When a service coach capsized to-day, after breaking the back axle, and somersaulted three times before…

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Mine Explosive Eliminates Accidents Many Advantages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

A new explosive, for use in mines and quarries, will, it is claimed, eliminate all the accidents caused by other explosives (says the ."Sunday…

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Three Injured. Six Injured in Car Smash

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

A collision occurred between a service car travelling from Sydney to Melbourne and a motor car going in the opposite direction near Gundagai…

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Lorry Fatality Driver Fined NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 5

At 10. p.m. on November 10 a motor lorry, driven by Jack Neal (20), labourer, overturned and a passenger was killed…

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No Trace Victims of Drowning Diver on Scene

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 5

On inquiry at 3.20 this afternoon, the Newcastle police stated that there were no further developments in the search for the bodies of the Hoxham…

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Echo of Burning Fatality. Coroner Inquires Into Tragic Death of Mrs. Durie. Verdict of Accidental Death Returned. .: -T. . i

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 8

The circumstances attending the tragic death of Alice Vera Durie, 35, who received frightful injuries when her clothing caught fire at her home in Alexander Street, West Cessnock, on the morning…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

A serious accident was narrowly averted one night last week. Mr. Jack Hunt was manipulating, his petrol lamp when it exploded. With great…

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