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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Miss Wilson Dies Injured in Show Ring NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 6

Miss Winifred Wilson, aged about 24, who was seriously injured in a hunting event at the Newcastle Show yesterday afternoon, died in the…

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Accidentally Shot

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 8

Waller Pittman, a young man, was injured with a shotgun at Merriwa. He was reloading the gun when it went off, and he received the charge…

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Woman Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 February 1935 · page 1

Miss Winifred Wils[?], aged about 24, who was known in New South Wales and Victoria' as' it particularly able horsewoman, fata[?]y injured in a…

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Show Fatality Death of Miss Wilson NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 February 1935 · page 5

That death was due to injuries accidentally received was the finding of the Coroner, Mr. A. g. Chiplin, this afternoon concerning the accident at…

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Two Injured Bar of Cycle Broke NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 February 1935 · page 3

When the bar of a bicycle on which they were riding broke and threw them to the roadway, a man and his wife were injured…

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Accident Sequel Car Driver Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 February 1935 · page 4

There was an accident in which two cars were involved in High-st., West Maitland on February 4, and a sequel was the appearance of one of the…

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Boy Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 12

Noel john seraggs, 11, of cochrane-street Red Hill, was drowned in the curumbin creek, Q. He was one of a party of 12 spending a holiday at…

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Cars Collide Three Men Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 6

There men received injuries when two cars collided about two miles on the Gosford side of peat's Ferry. Goorge Fealy, of Oaklands, near the…

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Colliery Employee Seriously Injured Waggon Ran Over Foot

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 2

Robert Curnow, 58, of Main Road Paxton, waggon packer, had his foot badly crushed when a waggon ran over it at Maitland Main Colliery…

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Serious Motor Accidents. Dubbo and Kiama. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 2

Thomas Bird (18) sustained shocking injuries, and nine other persons had remarkable escapes, when two cars collided in the…

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Kicked by Horse Show Ground Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 5

Mr. J. Hain, of stanford-street pelaw rain, was treated by the Maitland Ambulance on the west Maitland show round this afternoon for small lacera…

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Foot Crushed Cessnock Accident CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 February 1935 · page 5

Robert curnow (58) of Main Road, [?]stion a waggon packer employed at Maitland main Colliery, sustained a [?] crushed foot when a waggon…

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Thirty-Four Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 1

CASTRIES (St. Lucia), Feb. 26. Thirty-four were drowned on Sunday when the excursion launch, St. George,…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 4

When Albert Smith, 38, engineer, of Strathfield, was riding a motor cycle at Paddington he collided with a tram. He received a compound fracture of the…

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Car Crashes Down Embankment Teacher and Children Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 2

Eight school children and their teacher had fortunate escapes from serious injury (says a message from Grafton) when a motor-car in which…

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Excursion Launch Capsizes 34 People Drowned. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Castries, St Lucia

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 1

Thirty-four persons were drowned and many have been given up as lost owing to the capsizing of an excursion launch in the Caribbean Sea. There…

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Collision of Battleships Three Court-martials to Be Held. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 1

Rear-Admiral Bailey to-day faced a court-martial on a charge concerning a collision between two battle cruisers. This is the first court-martial of three,…

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Rev. S. W. Mikibbin and Mr W. Weiss in Accident

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 2

Rev. S. W. M'Kibbin and Mr W. Weiss, of Singleton, who left in the latter's, car on Monday morning-to attend the Methodist Conference in Sydney,…

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Serious Accident to Eye

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 February 1935 · page 2

Mr A. J. Reason, a share dairyman on the property of Mr W. F. M'Donald, at Wambo, met with a nasty accident, resulting in a serious injury to one…

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Injured Ankle Father McNamara

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 February 1935 · page 6

Father McNamara, of Maitland, was the victim of an unfortunate accident while he was visiting the Gloucester Convent on Tuesday. He was entering…

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