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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

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Maitland's Great Effort Against Waratah With Weakened Team Players Injured Kurri's Narrow Win Over West Team for Country Week

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 May 1935 · page 7

The sun of Mainland United's premiership hopes was hastened to its setting on Saturday by a series of accidents which ended, for some time at least, the football activities, of P. Maher and G. Bowtell…

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ACCIDENTS. Boy Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 6

Thrown from his pony, whilst out riding with his father, Neil Thornton 8), son of Mr. R. Thornton, of "The Glen," received a compound…

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Man Injured Tossed by Bullock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 6

Tossed by a bullock last night, William Cook, 59, of the Pensioners' Camp at East Maitland, sustained probable fractured ribs on the right…

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Corio at Fault Newcastle Collision NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 5

A Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry, consisting of Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M. (chairman) and Captains W. T Howell and S. M. Day…

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Finger Crushed Wheeler Injured CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 7

Archibaid Bamback (39), of Miller-street, Cessnock, a wheeler, employed at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, had his left index finger crushed when it was…

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Bumped Tram Motorist Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 8

Guy Kingsbury, 42, of Victor avenue, Melbourne, suffered a bad lacerated, chin, a lacerated wour over the left eye, and shock, when…

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BOXING Win for Pluto Bible Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 9

The two 15 rounds contests at the Rushcutter Bay Stadium last night had disappointing endings. In the first contest, Billy Singleton,…

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Sir Thomas Henley Meets With Tragic Death To-day DROWNED! Fell off Ferry Active Life Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 1

Member for Burwood for many years, Sir Thomas Henley, ex-M.L.A., met his death in tragic circumstances…

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Grazier's Death Sequel to Accident Car Capsized

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 8

When a motor-car failed to negotiate a sharp bend five miles from Bonshaw, near Inverell, and overturned into a ditch, James Edward Kemp, a grazier,…

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Car Capsized Women Injured SCONE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 2

Mrs. T. H. Fleming, or "Russiey," Aberdeen, and her sister-in-law, Mrs, H. C. Lewis, had a narrow escape from more serious consequence…

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Death of Sir Thomas Henley Drowned From Manly Steamer

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 2

Member for Burwood for many years, Sir Thomas Henley, exM.L.A., met his death, in tragic circumstances yesterday, falling…

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Accident Compels "Smithy" to Turn Back CRIPPLED! One Engine Slow Flight Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 1

Taking off from Richmond aerodrome early this morning for New Zealand with the big Jubilee Air Mail, the…

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Man Drowned Boat Stove In HOBART

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 5

The river steamer Excella, travelling from Hobart to a Huon port crashed into a small fishing boat near Sandy Bay. Ronald New, who was in the boat,…

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Boy Injured Slipped Beside Train SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 4

A twele-years-old boy sustained severe injured late yesterday afternoon when he slipped between a carriage of a train and the platform of…

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Youth Injured Attacked by Shark BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 4

Bitten by a Six-feet shark at Co-ochin Crook, Steve Chaplain, 16, of Glass-house Mountains, received an ugly gash on the thigh and suffered shock…

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Kull Fractured Freezing Works Accident ABERDEEN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 7

Whilst engaged loading out boot at a freezing works an employee, Harry sudden, of Muswellbrook, was struck a frozen hind quarter of…

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Ward Sacrificed Changing Players' Positions Maitland's Injured Men

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 8

Instead of going too deeply into the probabilities and possibilities of to-morrow's, matches, let us give heed to the fashioning of the district's team to do battle in country week. Let us be frank about it, too…

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Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

Whilst engaged loading out beef at the freezing works on Tuesday afternoon an employee, Harry Budden, of Muswellbrook, was struck by a frozen…

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Two Dead Result of Accidents SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 1

George White, of Watson-street, Woollabra, who was struck by a taxi near his home and taken to St.Vincent's Hospital suffering from shock…

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