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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Cage Fatality Compensation Awarded SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 10

In the causes Court the jury awarded Edit Wilson £900 her two daughter Olive £450 and Elsie £15O, plus funeral expenses and the cost of…

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Boy Saved Drowning in Lake Narrow Escape Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 10

A fully clothed man plunged into a small lake to save the life of a bay who had fallen into the water and had disappeared at The Lakes golf…

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Fell From Jetty Sailor Drowned BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 4

When two men fell from the jetty at Ingham, one was saved, but the other was washed away. They were members of the crew of the sugar…

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Three Injured Motor Car Overturns Narrow Escapes Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 4

Although a car proceeding towards Newcastle turned over three or four times on the Maitland road near Sandgate, last night, the three occupants…

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Accidental Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1936 · page 7

The Kurrl District Coroner (Mr. A. W, Johns held an Inquiry today Into the death of Samuel Morton, 24, which occurred in the…

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Horse and Lorry in Collision Rider Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 1

Mr William King, aged 25, a farmer, of Paterson, was seriously injured near Vacy on Wednesday afternoon. He was riding a horse when it came into…

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Tragedy at Wollombi Kearsley Man Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 4

James Russell, 60, residing at Kearsley, was found drowned at 5.40 p.m. on Wednesday, in a waterhole at Yango, about a mile and a half…

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Muswellbrook Footballer's Death Injured in Week-end Match. Muswellbrook

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 2

Jack Gilholme, a member of the Muswellbrook "B" grade team, which was engaged in a match against Aberdeen at Muswellbrook on Sunday last…

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Struck by Train Milk Verdor Injured Lorry Wrecked Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 1

When a motor lorry he was driving was struck by a coal trin at Catherine Hill Bay to-day Harold White man, 28, milk vender received a…

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Serious Accident at Paterson

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 2

William King, 25, of Paterson, a farmer, was riding a horse across a culvert at Paterson on Wednesday afternoon last when the horse was…

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Fell From Top of Stairs Accident That Brought on Neuritis

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 2

This old lady survived a fall downstairs from top to bottom, only to become a victim of neuritis and rheumatism. But in Kruschen she…

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Driver Killed Head-on Collision Four Injured Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 4

When a head on collision occurred between a motor car and a [?] truck he was driving James Barnes 45 of Moonbl, was…

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100 Persons Drowned SEOUL (Korea), June 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 1

A motor launch, with 120 Koreans on its way to smuggle them into Japan in defiance of immigration laws,…

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Twelve Drowned New York, June 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 4

Twelve school children were drowned when a motor boat carrying them to a picnic on Lake Oardner, near Marion (Maine), capsized in choppy…

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Car Smash Remarkable Escapes Fatal Collision Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 3

Lucky escapes from death were had by six people in a collision on Liverpool road, Chullora, when a truck laden with timber ran into…

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Youth Killed Car Overturns Three Injured Dubbo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 1

When a car capsized on the Wellington road, eight miles from Dubbo, last night, Donald Joseph Potts (20) Dubbo, sustained a fractured skull,…

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Car and Truck Collide One Killed and Four Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 1

In a head-on collision between a motor car and a utility truck he was driving. James Barnes, aged 45, of Moonbi, was killed on Friday night. Four other…

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Killed in Motor Accident Car Turned Over Three Times. Dubbo

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 June 1936 · page 3

When a car turned over three times on the Wellington-road, eight miles from Dubbo last night, Donald Joseph Potts, aged 20, was killed and four…

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Fatal Accident Head-on Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 2

When a head-on collision occurred between a motor-car and a utility truck he was driving, James Barnes, 45, of Moonbi, was Killed on Friday…

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Man Drowned Sister Sees Tragedy ADELAIDE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 2

Archie Honderson, a young man of Pine Point, Yorke Peninsula, was drowned when his dinghy capsized in a heavy sea…

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