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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

1,485 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 75

Struck by Car Woman Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 1

Grossing the intersection of Hunter and Union streets, Newcastle, with a baby in her arms, Mrs. R. Charlton, 21, of Union-street, was knocked…

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Victim of Cycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 8

Mr. John Shearman, of Mayfield, formerly of Portree, Nelson's Plains, who was knocked down by a motor cyclist on Thursday afternoon, is an…

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Youth Injured Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 5

During the procession through Kurri Kurri last night, Jack Caldwell, 18, of Maitland-street, Kurri Kurri, was knocked down by a motor…

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Wheeler Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 5

John Butler, 26, of Anstee-street, Cessnock, a wheeler, employed at Bellbird No. 2 Collery, was admitted to…

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Man Killed Car Overturned Two Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 4

Shocking Injuries, to winch no quickly succumbed, were sustained by a Sydney man when the car he was driving overturned on the…

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Car's Plunge Two Miners Drowned Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 3

John Stevens, 62, widower, and William Cole, 26, single, were drowned when a car in which they were travelling fell into a stream at Waingure, in…

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Four Injured Fire Engine Overturns Ran Into Cow Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 August 1936 · page 3

After running into a cow on the road between Windsor and Parramatta a fire engine plunged over an embankment and overturned. Four…

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General News Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 3

Charles Wi[?]mo[?] (62), miner, of Northcote Street, Aberdare, who is employed at Aberdare Colliery, was admitted to hospital yesterday with…

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Skier Injured Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 2

Ski-ing down a hill at Ruapehu, at between 50 and 60 miles an hour, L. V. Bryant, of the Everest reconnais[?]isteice expedition of 1935, struck a…

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Train Mishap Runaway Engine Four Injured Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 August 1936 · page 3

Four men suffered injuries at Mayne Junction railway yards when an engine got out of control, and crashed into another engine which was…

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Premature Gelignite Explosion One Killed, Two Injured. Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 August 1936 · page 2

One man was killed and two others injured in a gelignite blast at a quarry at Ballarat West to-day. Charles Williams, of Ballarat West,…

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Head-on Collision Wagga

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 2

A Action of Holbrook, received serious head injuries when a car he was driving collided head-on with another car in Baylis-at…

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Billycart Accident Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 2

Two boys, David John Easton, 14, and Jack Emery, 12, were travelling down Ernest-street, North Sydney, in a billycart when a collision occurred…

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Man Killed Accident at Warialda Car Overturns Waiualda

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 August 1936 · page 2

When a car overturned near Warlaida yesterday, Algernon C[?], 43, of Brook-street, Clovelly, a city traveller, was killed. His son, Nell, aged…

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Injured at Sea Freighter in Storm SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 1

Such rough weather was encountered on the voyage from Capetown by the British freighter, Karamea, which arrived in Sydney to-day, that a…

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Airfield Mystery Aviator Found Injured. in Blood-stained Pyjamas

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 3

A message from London states that the police are inquiring into the mysterious injuries of Flight-Lieut. G. L. Menzies, R.A.F. of Sydney,…

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Motor Colisionin Pa?amata-road Sergeant and Constable Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 5

Yesterday morning a sensational motor collision occurred in Parramattaroad, Homebush, in which a police Bluebird car was badly damaged…

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Cells of Used Wireless Battery Woman Injured by Explosion

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 5

Mrs A. Holmes, of Giant's Creek, was the victim of an unusual accident. She had placed some rubbish, in which were some cells of a used wireless battery,…

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Two Injured Motor Car Somersaults Lands on Wheels Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 3

Two people were injured when a car driven by Henry Percy Owens, 75, legal advisor, of Bellevue Hill, Sydney, skidded in loose gravel 10 miles…

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Small Debts Court Sequel to Collision. (Before Mr N. L. Sheridan, P.M.)

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 1

Arising out of a collision on the New England Highway, at Dunelly. oil June 30th last between a motor car and lorry, James Frazer, of Jerry's Piains,…

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