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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 77

Gar Smash Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 4

J. W. Butcher, softgoods manufacturer, and Kenneth Moore, traveller, both of St. Leonards-avenue, St. Kilda (Melbourne), were more seriously…

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Grafton Romance Critically Injured Man Married in Hospital

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 2

Ernest ("Pat") Fox, who lost both legs through an accident at a meatworks nine days ago and who is still dangerously ill, was married to his…

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Caustic Soda Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 4

Joan Hall, 1 year and 4 months of Matcham, near Gosford pulled a bucket containing a caustic soda solution over herself. She was admitted to a…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1935 · page 2

Mr. Wm. Cobran, 25, timber getter, of Coolongolook, was squaring timber last when the axe glanced on to his left foot, causing an incised…

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Back Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 10

Mr. John Dernler, employed by Mr. J. Mate at Milton was treated by the Maitland Ambulance to-day for injuries to his back. he was trying to…

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Speedway Crash Two Riders Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 3

Travelling at 65 miles an hour, in the chief, match race at Sydney show ground on Monday night, Wally Little (Australia) and J. Abbott (England)…

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Two Killed Motor Car Overturns Five Injured Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 2

Two persons werE Kiled and five Injured at about 10 o'clock last night when a motor car overturned on the Armldale-road, three…

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Car Overturns Near Tamworth Two Killed and Five Injured. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 February 1935 · page 2

A young man and a young woman were killed, and five were seriously injured, a few minutes before 10 o'clock last night, when a…

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Boy Drowned Swept Away in River SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 9

Ronald Gardener, 12, was drowned [?] cooks's River at Enfield yesterday afternoon. With his brother, Roy, 10 he was…

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Warder Injured Fell from Wall Prisoner's Effort

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 7

A Prisoner working outside at the East Maitland Gael made a gallant effort to save a warder from serious injury when he fell…

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Four Injured Escapees from Farm Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 2

Six boys of a party of nine escaped from the weraroa reformation farm and took possession of a car, which went over a bank near wanganui…

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Car Overturns Accident Near Denma DENMAN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 2

A motor car driven by Mr. Wales returning to Leadville from Sydney overturned two miles along the morriwa road Mr. Walsey was asco[?]…

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Man's Fortitude Ordeal After Accident Caught in Storm Paters On

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 6

Amazing fortitude, while suffering Intense agony, was shown by a wood-cutter, Charles Collins (23), of Islington, who severed…

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The Branch Mill and ACCIDENTS

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1935 · page 3

Partial work only has been obtained at the saw-mill since the ushering in of the new year, but greater has been tie risk. No less than three major accidents have…

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Motoring Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 2

Two persons were killed and five injured at about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night when a motor car overturned on the Armidale road, three miles…

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Axemen Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 3

An axe, with which William Towers of Taree, was cutting wood, caught in a clothes line, and the blade struck him on the head. He was taken 10…

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Caught in Current and Drowned

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 8

While collecting driftwood in the swollen Coo[?]'s River at Enfield on Wednesday, Ronald Gardiner, aged 12, of Enfield, was caught in a strong…

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Fatally Injured by Car

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 5

Knocked down by a motor-car at Woollahra on Wednesday night Miss Mary Hill, aged 50, of Waverley, was fatally injured. She was admitted to…

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Gored by Bull Man Fatally Injured

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 4

An agonising death was suffered by a man named William Thomas Brown, 47 years, at Mount Murray, near Robertson, on Monday night. In…

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Two Persons Killed. Five Others Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 February 1935 · page 10

Two persons were killed and five were seriously injured late on Tuesday night when a single-seater car in which they were travelling…

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