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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

1,341 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 68

Cart and Car. Collision at Intersection. Mr. Harold Jones Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 2

A regrettable accident, which could easily have been attended with fatal results, befel Mr. Harold Jones, son of Mr. J. A. Jones, Dungog, on…

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Well Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 5

Cyril Renton wills, of comet (q) [?] a single man, was killed when a bucket filled with [?]arth foll on him from the top of the well which he was…

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Car Fatality Doctor Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 5

When the Liverpool District Coroner (Mr Poolman) yesterday committed D. W. L. Kirkwood for trail on a charge of having feloniously slain…

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Boy's Death by Drowning Mother Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 3

At an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ronald M'Kenzie, aged five, whose body was recovered from the pier at Cowes…

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Motorists Swept Away Three Drowned in Fierce Storm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 2

A terrifically dense storm which struck the Castlemaine (Vic.) district on Sunday afternoon last was responsible for three deaths…

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Two Injured Cars Locked Together Newcastle People

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 6

Two residents of the Newcastle district were injured in a collision between two motor cars at the corner of High and Hourke…

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Street Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 4

Accidents in the London Metropolitan area for the month of June increased by over 2,000, but, under the private car heading, the iiguren show a…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 3

While falling a tree for a girder last week, Mr. Jack Barry, junr., met with a very painful accident. He and his brother Cecil were falling the tree,…

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Bullahdealah. Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 4

Mr. Chas. Gooch, who suffered a painful injury to the index finger of the left hand is still undergoing treatment. His injured finger is progressing…

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Father Injures Baby Son Peculiar Accident

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 8

As the result of a singular accident at his home a 13-mouths-old baby boy, John Fletcher, son of Mr W. Fletcher, of Capham, London, was taken…

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Two Injured Cycle—Car Smash

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 11

Harry 'Hart, 31, a motor, driver, of Sunshine-street, Manly, and Eric Munn, 16, of the same address, were badly injured when the cycle on…

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Horse Bolted Two Boys Injured MOREE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 2

While Thomas Pitt, 10, and Cecil Saunders, 18, were birdnesting on horseback, the horse took, fight and belted, and collided with a tree…

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Car Capsized Kyogle Couple Injured Lugky Escape Kyogle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 5

While rounding a bend nine miles from Killarney, on the Tooloom-road, a car skidded, ran into a bank, and turned over…

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Street Accidents. London Statistics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 10

Accident in the London metropolitan area for the month of June Increased by over 2000, but, under the private car heading the figures show…

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Golden Rules Minimising Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 8

The following, seven excelleal rules if observed by every motor vehicle drivers should be to his her benefit and would go a long way…

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Two Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 October 1934 · page 8

E. R. Lake, 31, butcher, of Clovelly-road, Randwick, and Mrs. Lake, 31, who was riding pillion, were injured when the motor cycle on which they…

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Man Drowned in Drain Pinned Underneath Tractor

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 October 1934 · page 2

Trapped in a pool of water underneath an overturned tractor at Leeton, Joseph Fuller, 25, was drowned. He was driving the tractor across a…

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Launch Ablaze Two Boys Drowned Petrol Ignites Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 October 1934 · page 2

When a motor-launch caught fire and sank yesterday morning in the Hawkesbury River at Windsor, Frederick Stevens, 14, of Willoughby, and…

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Under Water Pinned by Tractor Man Drowned Leeton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 October 1934 · page 3

Joseph James Fuller, aged 35, a well-known district footballer, was drowned when the tractor he was driving on W. Taylor's farm capsized…

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Hit on Head Caddy Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 October 1934 · page 1

Caddy Walters was struck on the head with a golf ball driven by one of the Englishmen during a practice hi[?] just before the golf lost between…

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