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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Painful Trip Carpenter Injured MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 6

Albert Weigmann, 53, carpenter, of Powelltown, was struck by a wire cable, which fractured his right leg He had a long and painful journey of…

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Car Overturned Three Persons Injured WAGGA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 6

Three persons were injured when a motor car, driven by Robert Cunningham Young, a Wagga business man, overturned on the Albury-road, about…

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Seven Injured Thrown Out of Lorry Light Horse Men Goulburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 6

Thrown out of a motor lorry loaded with forage when it swerVed on the road near Roslyn, about 12 miles from Goulburn, seven men who were…

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Cessnock Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 2

Annette Couste, 17, of Desmond-street, Cessnock, fell from her bicycle and was admitted to hospital with a probable fracture of the skill and…

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Three Killed Victorian Accidents Two Critical Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 February 1936 · page 3

When a van containing a party of bowlers crashed into a telegraph Pole after colliding with a car at Chelsea. Alexander Mattinson, a bowler, living…

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Drowned in Dam Temora

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

Charles Marshall Wells, 42, disapeared while swimming in a dam, but his body was not recovered until some hours later…

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Fatally Injured Lithgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 2

Alleged to have been knocked down, by a horse and sulky, Wm. Rea, of Mort's Estate, received facial injuries. His clothes' were also badly…

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£105 AWARDED Relief porker Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 4

In the Workers Compensation commission, William Arthur Garvan, 28, of Carrington-street, Rozelle, claimed from the Public Works…

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Three Injured Motor Cars Collide Driver Critical Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 5

When two motor cars collided in Edgecliff-road, Woollahra, last night, three persons were injured, one seriously…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 6

Whilst, skinning a bullock Max Merrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Merrick, received a deep gash in his left hand. Eight stitches were required to…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 3

There were several accidents in Cessnock on Saturday. Annette Coust, 17, of Desmondstreet, fell from her bicycle, and was…

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Drowned in a Dam Suffered From a Heart Complaint

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 2

Mr Charles Marshall Wells, aged 42, a well-known farmer of the Temora district, was drowned in a dam about a quarter of a mile from his homestead on Sunday…

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De Valera's Son Killed Victim of Riding Fatality Dublin

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 1

Mr Brian De Valera, aged 20, an engineering student at Dublin University, and fourth son of President De Valera, was galloping with a cousin in Phoenix…

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Tram Accident Claim for Damages SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 5

Judge Sheridan to=day gave reserved judgement in the case in which Thomas Henry Mercer, of Randwick, was awarded £300 in his claim for…

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Plane Fatality Hobart

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 7

Strong criticism of Hawker Demon machines used by the R.A.A.F., was made by Captain F. G.Huxley, aviation expert of the…

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Car Fatality Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 10

When a motor car skidded, turned several "somersaults, and crashed into a telegraph pole near Hawern, Chaille Arnold Haylock, railway fireman,…

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Motor Cyclists Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 February 1936 · page 10

Two men were injured when a motor cycle they were riding collided with a motor car opposite the Central School, Broadmeadow, William…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 5

While following his occupation as miner at Pelton [?] on Tuesday afternoon, Thomas Sinclair,41,of Desmond-street,…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 5

David Bryce, 30, wheeler, of Sargent Street, Cessnock, and employed at Aberdare Extended Colliery, was admitted to hospital yesterday…

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Cars in Collision an Ill-fated Family

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 February 1936 · page 1

In a collision between two motor-cars at Kockdale on Wednesday afternoon, Alan Atkin, aged 21, of Rockdale, was killed. His mother, Mrs…

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