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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Three Killed When Service Coach Capsizes Accident Due to Breaking of Back Axle

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 1

When a service coach capsized yesterday, after breaking the back axle, and somersaulting three times before bursting into flames, three women were…

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Two Injured Car Rolls Over Cessnock Accident Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1934 · page 7

Eight young people returning from Wollombi at a late hour last night had miraculous escapes from serious injury, when the car in which they…

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Car Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 6

When a motor car capsized on the Yandina-Coolumb Beach road (Q.), Philip Brown (80), was killed. His wife and other members of his family…

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Four Injured Carnival Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 2

At a carnival at Wagga on Saturday night there was a series of accidents, involving a girl, a boy of 12, and a youth of 15…

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Two Drowned Bendigo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 6

A double drowning fatality occurred at Long Gully on Saturday, in which Francis Hubert Harvey, aged 9, and Mavis June Draper, 7½, lost their…

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River Tragedy Young Man Drowned SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 3

At Douglas Park, near Picton, Frederick Keith McRoric, 22, of Guildford, was drowned in the Nepean River. His 21-year old brother, Albert…

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In Whirlpool Young Man Drowned TRANCHE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

Eric Smith (21), son of the manager of the Wyalong branch of the Bank of New South Wales was drowned yesterday in a whirlpool in…

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Tumut Drowning Police to Inquire Foul Play Unlikely Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) to-day stated that in all probability a detective will be sent from Sydney to investigate the drowning of…

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Drowned in Macquarie Sucked Down by Whirlpool. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 2

A message from Trangie states that Eric Smith was drowned in the Macquarie River yesterday in a whirlpool caused by a rush of water over the…

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Motor Smashes Many Accidents Five Dead

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 2

During the week-end motor and other road accidents resulted in five being killed and many injured in New South Wales and Victoria…

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Diving Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 3

Allan Craig, 15, of Westcott-street, Cessnock, was admitted to hospital on Sunday with Injuries to his back. He was diving at Toranto when he…

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Long Bridge Accident Last Night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 4

The urgent need of repairs to the Long Bridge was strikingly illustrated last night, when a prominent citizen of West Maitland stopped into a hole…

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Boy Drowned Lithgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 2

Frederick Burgess, 7, was drowned in Piper's Flat dam, Portland. He was catching ladpoles, and walked into a deep hole. It was not until several…

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Car Accident Near Wollombi Two People Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 3

A car accident, in which John Pettigrew (21), of Bell-street, Bellbird, and Myrtle Caddis (20), of Aberdare Road, Cessnock, received slight…

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Youthful Cyclist Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 2

Struck ty a lorry while riding a bicycle on Saturday last, William Trubody, 15, of Villas-street, Cessnock received severe abrasions to…

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Drowned in Macquarie River. Sucked Down by Whirlpool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 5

A message from Trangie states that Eric Smith was drowned in the Macquarie River on Sunday in a whirlpool caused by a rush of…

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ACCIDENT! Cause of Death Boy Crushed Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 1

Crushed between a travelling electric crane and an upright girder at Cardiff Railway Workshops on January…

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Car Capsizes Fatal Accident Five Hurt Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1934 · page 2

A man was killed and five persons who were members of a Cromorne family, were injured, three critically, when a motor-car capsized on the…

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Man Killed in Car Smash Five of Another Family Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 1

Harry Parkin, 45, of Raglan-street, Mosman, was killed, and five members of another family were injured, two seriously, when a motor car overturned…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 2

On Monday morning a rowing boat capsized in the river at Hexham, and six persons were thrown into the water. Mr. and Mrs. Spence and their son Donald…

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