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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

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Many Riders Injured GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 September 1936 · page 6

So many cyclists were injured during the Gosford Cycle Club's 93 miles road race this afternoon, that two…

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Girl Killed Road Accidents Many Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 September 1936 · page 2

In Sydney and suburbs many motor, accidents occurred at the week-end, and a girl was killed. Joan Carroll, 19, of Cremorne, was…

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Boy Drowned Fell Into Canal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 September 1936 · page 3

Brian Harry Gilbert, a nine-year-old boy, was drowned in front of his sister in a canal at Kogarah. The boy was playing with his…

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Fatal Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 2

As a result of a collision between a bus and a car near West Cessnock Post Office about 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, Gladys Forbes, 21, of…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 3

Sam Dodds, 29, a wheeler employed at Abermain colliery, had the second finger of his left hand badly crushed while at…

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Injured in Car Smash Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 6

A motor car, driven by W. Burke, of Tamworth, crashed into the railway permanent way about a mile from Somerton, and finished on its side…

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Fatal Collision Motor Car and Bus Young Woman Killed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 3

Tragedy attended a collision between a bus and a car near West Cessnock Post Office, about 1 o'clock on…

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Lorry Accident Crashed Through Fence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 4

Driving a motor lorry belonging to Mr, Frank Hector, a butcher, from East to West Maitland, late yesterday afternoon, Mr. Norman Hellyer,…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 5

When he second finger of his left hand was caught in the door of a carriage while travelling in the Dungog train from Tolarah to West Maitland…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 1

Mr. E. Green was the victim of a peculiar accident last week near Stroud when he was run over by his own car. He had entered a paddock…

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Two Killed Belmont Fatality Motor Collision Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 September 1936 · page 2

The deaths of Paul Askew (42) and Jack Ernest William Stacey (32) miners, of Swansea, who were instantly…

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Crossing Fatality Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 September 1936 · page 5

In a collision between a tram and a motor car at a level crossing at Dandedong yesterday, William Doyle, commercial traveller, of Black Rock,…

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HOOFBEATS Jockey Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 September 1936 · page 9

Serious injuries were suffered by John Kelly (14), an apprentice jockey, of Merrylands, when he fell from a two-year-old, which trod on his head,…

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Boys Drowned Tragedy at Inverell. Inverell

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 September 1936 · page 2

The bodies of two young boys, Clarence Garrett and Edward Evans, were recovered from the Maclntyre River to-day. The boys failed to return…

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His Worst Smash Van Praag Injured LONDON, September 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 September 1936 · page 3

After losing a challenge exhibition match to his compatirot, Grosskreutz, at Wimbledon Stadium last night, Van Praag, the Australian speedway motor…

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Boy Injured Hit-Run Driver SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 September 1936 · page 9

Police are searching for a car which, they allege, knooked down Lecnard Pationce, 15, of Mount, Vernon-street in Bridge-road. Globe, and drove on…

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Two Inverell Boys Drowned Bodies Found in River

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 3

A dog standing guard on the river bank at Inverell on Tuesday was the only clue for searchers who, after some hours, had failed to find Clarence…

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Guard Injured Knocked by Engine SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 8

In the course of Shunting operations at Singleton about one o'clock this morning, Guard A. Peake, met with serious injury through being knocked…

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Severe Storm in North Coast District Houses Wrecked and People Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 6

Houses were unroofed, and blown down, telephone wires broken, and several persons injured when the worst storm for years struck the…

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The Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 7

It was a sunny day when Pollyanna went walking through Pendleton Woods. As she had brought a book, Pollyanna sat down in the shade of a…

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