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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 77

Cars Collide Five Persons Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 4

When two cars collided at the corner of Everton-street and Gordon-avenue, Hamilton, yesterday afternoon, a man and four women were…

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Struck Hurdle Ortolan Destroyed Jockey Injured Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 1

When Ortolan crushed into a hurdle at Flemington this morning during training operations, he cracked a bone in his neck, and was later destroyed…

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Gessnock Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 5

First aid to 18 minor cases was given by the St. John Ambulance Brigade at Cessnock May Day sports yesterday. Mr. J. Self is…

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Boy Injured Hit by Motor Car SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 1

Severe concussion, possible fracture of the skull, and contusions to the right eye were sustained by Joseph Maree (7), of Campsic, when he was…

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Ship's Dash Injured Engineer Fall Down Hold Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 1

The freighter, Mahana, had to make a dash for Sydney last night to secure medical attention for a member of the crew who had been…

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Shot in Office Mr. J. B. Thorpe Dead Accident Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 4

Mr. James Thorpe (48), Newcastle Manager of the Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Co., Ltd., was found shot in his office in Hunter-street West,…

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Local and General ACCIDENT

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 4

Miss Eileen Evans, an employee at the Port Stephens Canning Factory, had the misfortune to get her thumb caught in the cog of a wheel while at…

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Accidents at May Day Sports Axemen Taken to Hospital

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 5

During a wood-chopping contest at the May Day sports on Cessnock Showground on Wednesday, George Wilmott; of Keansley, was injured…

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Motor Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 May 1935 · page 3

Coming home from Sydney last night, Mr. Ern. Sternbeck had the bad luck to overturn his car, near Gosford…

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Driver Arrested Sequel to Collision NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1935 · page 1

As a sequel to a collision between two motor-cars, near Charlestown, last night, a man was charged with having driven while under the influence of…

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Two Hurt Tram Collision Many Escapes Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1935 · page 1

When a tramcar jumped the rails and crashed into the side of another crowded tram at the corner of…

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Child's Death Accident Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1935 · page 3

June Marie Lackey (4), of Emerald-street, East Maitland, died in the Maitland Hospital this morning, following injuries received when she…

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French Premier Injured Paris, May 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1935 · page 3

The Prime Minister (M. Flandin) was motoring in his constituency in connection with the municipal elections to-day, when his car collided…

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Car Somersaults Three Persons Injured WAGGA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1935 · page 3

Six visitors from Tasmania were in a car which somersaulted on the main Sydney-Melbourne Road. Three were injured and admitted to hospital. They…

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Car Overturns Two Men Injured Ambulance Busy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1935 · page 2

Two men were hurt when a car in which they were driving towards The Entrance, Tuggerah Lakes, overturned near the Wyong turn-off…

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Second Victim Motor Accident CANBERRA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 May 1935 · page 5

The second victim of the motor cycle accident on the Yass-road, Lawrence Clifford Hales, died this morning in Canberra Hospital…

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Father Killed Son Severely Injured Shooting Accident Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 8

Harold Smith, a well-known Hastings business man, met his death, and his 17-year-old son, Douglas, was critically injured, in an extrordinary…

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Vacy Fatality. Mother and Son Killed. Tragic Aftermath to Gresford Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 2

Returning to their home at Lennoxton, Vacy, on Saturday evening, from the Gresford Show, Mrs. Emma Jane Hudson, 52, and one of…

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Peculiar Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 4

Robert Morris, 9, of Adamstwon, was the victim of a strange accident yesterday, when a calf which was being driven across the kolara road bridge,…

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Child's Death Struck by Lorry Was Accidental

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1935 · page 6

Knocked down by a motor lorry at East Maitland on Thursday last, June Marie Lackey, aged four, of Emerald-st., East…

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