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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 77

Maori Tragedy Double Drowning Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 3

The second double drowning tragedy in the Dargaville district, within a week, occurred when two Maori sisters. Emirl and Poriti Edwards, aged…

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Through Fence Motorist Injured ARMIDALE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 2

When Ell Najor, 35, of warw[?]e[?], Queensland, was motoring from Warwick to Tamworth, at the week-end, he mistook a bend in the road and…

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Car Collision One Victim Dies Skull Fractured Armidale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 2

Injuries received in a car collision at the corner of Danger and Mann streets caused the death of Clydo Mehrton, 33, married, of Rocky Hill,…

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Racing Car Strikes Crowd Four Killed and Many Injured. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) PARIS

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 1

Four were klled and 12 severely injured when a racing car, driven by an Italian named Cattaneo, in a hill climbing contest, dasned into the crowd…

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Accident in Quarry

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 4

Ernest Burton, of Burwood, Sydney, whilst working on the permanent way metal quarry at Martin's Creek, near Paterson, sustained serious injuries to…

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Drowned in Copper

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 5

Derick John Phillips, 2, of Buckland Hill, Perth, fell head first into n copper containing only a few inches of water, and was drowned. He was…

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Cyclist Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 7

Whilst riding a bicycle along All[?]dale road, Cessnock, last night. Les[?] Hughes, 19, of Cessnock collided w[?] a car. He was admitted to hospit[?]…

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Collided with Car Cyclist Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 3

Leslie ("Stumpy") Hughes, 19, of Cessnock, was riding a bicycle along Allandale Road yesterday afternoon when he collided with a motor car as…

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Child Injured Horned by Cow LIVERPOOL

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 5

While Lily Bull, of Sydney-road, Liverpool, was going on a message she Was bumped by a cow, which caused her to drop a doll she was…

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Accidentally Shot

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 4

Sydney Stanforth, 17, of Macquarie Fields, placed a rifle between his knees while on a shooting expedition in order to roll a cigarette. The rifle…

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Collision Near Dunolly Bridge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1935 · page 2

An accident occurred about 7.50 a.m. yesterday in at the John-street, at the approach to Dunolly Bridge, in which a timber lorry and trailer, driven by Mr…

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Top-hand Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 April 1935 · page 3

Bert York, a top hand, employed at No. 3 section of Abermain Colliery, was packing coal in a truck when his hand was caught, and his right thumb…

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Road Accidents Council's Liability Tarro Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 April 1935 · page 7

The question whether council was liable for an accident which occurred on one of its roads arose when a letter was read at a meeting of Tarro…

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Fatal Collision SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 1

When his bicycle collided with, a motor lorry this morning at Balmain, Frederick Parnell (16), of the same…

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Stood Over Collision Claims Part Heard Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 7

Cross-actions for damages arising from a collision between two motor cars, were again before Judge Nield at the Maitland District Court, to-day…

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Unfortunate Men Badly Burned by Molten Solder in Bad Way Loss of Speech Eyes Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 1

Arthur Smith (45); of Manly, and Henry Lake (27), of Marrickville, suffered terrible injuries when…

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Hit by Car Accident at E. Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 6

J. Kremyborg (21), of Wickham-street, Wickham, was struck by a car near Ebbeck's garage in Newcastle street, East Maitland, last night, and…

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£400 CLAIMED Youth's Fractured Skull Weston Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 7

There was a ripple of amusement through the District Court to-day, when a witness persisted in calling plaintiff in a case "the…

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Leg Amputated Crushed in Collision SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 1

Edward Frost, 21, of Malabar, had his right leg so badly crushed in a collision involving his motor-cycle in Anzac Pardo, Kensington, last night,…

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TETANUS Man's Thumb Injured BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 1

Resuming work after a prick on the left thumb from a gardening fork had been attended by a chem'st, Allan Clarence O'Connor, 20, of…

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