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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Accident Figures Alarm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. Safety department expresses alarm at the number of road accidents, which have occurred in this State since the beginning of the year…

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Cycle Skidded Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 2

Through a motor cycle skidding in loose material, Cyrill Worrell (17),of Grafton, who was holidaying in Armidale, and Frederick Cox (24), of…

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Arm Fractured H.S. Bend Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 January 1934 · page 4

Holidays in West Maitland for Gordon Stevens, 14, ended unfortunately last night. Stevens, who lives in Allandale…

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Accidents

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

While playing in the biggest of the three pine trees near the waterfront, Vaun Bobs had the misfortune to fall from a branch and break his arm…

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Motor Fatality Companion Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

Frank Bull, 37, of Forth-street, Ashbury, was killed, and Arthur Gordon Copeland, 34, of Beuiah-street, South Kensington, was seriously injured last…

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Pea Rifle Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 9

While playing with a pea rifle on a farm at Lake Brown (W.A.), Basil John Conway, 10, son of the chairman of the Mu[?]budin Road…

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Heavy Toll. Holiday Accidents Seven Drowned Sydney

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

The holiday enjoyed by many thousands on the beaches yesterday was not without its tragic toll of lives…

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Youths Safe Drowning , Report Unaware of Fuss Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

Despite the fact that they were reported to have been drowned yesterday in a canoe, two youths, Jack Stout (19), and Leslie Lloyd (16)…

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Child Drowned Sympathy at Kurri KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 7

As was briefly reported in our final edition yesterday afternoon, residents of Kurri Kurri and Pelaw Main received another severe blow when it…

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Man Killed Pinned by Earth Mine Fatality Sydney

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

One was killed and another seriously hurt when two men working in a gold mine at Newbridge struck an underground river…

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Critically Injured in Collision Motor Cycle Strikes Tram. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 2

Arthur Linton, aged 40, received critical injuries late last night when the motor cycle which he was riding collided with a tram at the intersection of…

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Yarra Fatality Witnessed by Wife

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 6

Lionel Pearman, 25, of Altena, was seized with cramp while bathing in the Yarra near Warandyle, Vic., and was drowned despite the efforts of…

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Ladder Fell Cleaner Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 6

William Jonnings, of 35 Searl-street, Petersham, was admitted to Balmain Hospital in a serious condition…

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Injured Helped Sister's First Aid Roadside Cases Sydney

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

While on her way back to Sydney, Sister A. B. Parry, of the St. John Ambulance, who has been touring the north delivering lectures on first aid,…

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Japanese Ferry Boat Overturns 200 Workmen Drowned (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Tokio

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 1

A ferry boat, which was overerowded with 250 workmen, capsized at Mitsubishi this morning, only 50 being saved…

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Over Cliff Car Accident Two Hurt Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 6

When a car swerved off the road and crashed 40 feet over a cliff about 22 miles from Gosford one man was critical injured and another…

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Cars Collide Newcastle Accident Lucky Escape

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

The occupants of a sedan car, which overturned at Newcastle yesterday, had a miraculous escape from serious injury…

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Mine Explosive Which Eliminates Accidents Many Advantages

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 1

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

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Double Drowning Fatality Brothers Could Not Swim Four Hours' Search for Bodies

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 3

While police from Branxton and Lochinvar dragged the river, local residents dived for four hours last night before they recovered, the…

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Constable Injured Finger Joint Amputated Car Accident Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 January 1934 · page 4

constable Houlahan, now stationed at Clarence Town, and formerly of Dungog, had the misfortune to have the top of one finger on his left hand…

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