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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Driver Fatally Injured When Van Overturns Accident Near Tamworth

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

When a panel van he was driving from Sydney to Tamworth turned over a number of times, about 20 miles from Tamworth, on the Goonoo Goonoo road,…

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Injured Boy Travels by 'Plane Dislocated His Spine

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

Bill Elleston, eight years, of Broken Hill, who was unable to be brought to Sydney by train, owing to the fear that excessive vibration would be…

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Fatal Fall of Coal Bellbird Colliery Fatality CORONsR Praises Rescue Party

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

At the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday Mr. A. W. Johns, Kurri District Coroner, conducted an inquest, at Cessnock…

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Darwin Wrecked by Cyclone. Houses Lifted Bodily, Then Crashed. One Dead; Hundreds Injured During Cyclone. Fears for Fifty Luggers. Darwin

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 1

People screamed in terror, houses were lifted bodily from the ground and smashed to pieces, wreckage hurtled wildly through the air, as a…

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Mine Fatality Muswellbrook Sympathy MUBWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 7

Sincere sympathy has been extended to Mr. and Mrs. C. Dever in the death of their son, who was killed by a fall of coal in the Maitland Extended…

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"A Pure Accident" Le Havre, March 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 1

After a meeting with Miss. Oxford the Magistrate decided that the death of the…

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First Football Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 7

The first football accident of the season occurred at East Maitland this afternoon, where Maitland United and Morpeth-East…

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Two Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 4

The Maitland Ambulance handled two accidents last night. R. Williams 11, of Main-road. East greta, fell while playing near his home and…

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Picnic Tragedy Kurri Youth Drowned DUNGOG, Monday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 2

Gordon LIller, a Kurri youth, aged about 16 was drowned yesterday afternoon in the Williams River, at Bandon Grove, about eight miles from…

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Car Capsizes at Belmont Visitors From Victoria Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 1

Mrs E. J. Smith, of Footseray (Vic), was seriously injured when a motor-car in which she and her husband were driving skidded and overturned on the…

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Drowning Fatality At Bandon Grove. a Kurri Kuuri Resident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 2

While swimming with two mates at the junction of Williams and Chichester rivers, just above the Bandon Grove bridge, on Sunday afternoon…

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Car Overturns. Local Resident Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

Mr. Lloyd Wall, son of Mr. C. E. Wall, is at present an inmate at Brentwood Hospital, suffering from injuries received when his car overturned a…

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Boating Tragedy Cricketer Drowned Wellington (N.z)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 5

A Farewell party to E. Cowle, a New zealand cricketer, who wil visit England shortly ended in tragedy at the week-end A dinghy which E Dun…

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Muswellbrook Boy Injured. Crushed by Fall of Stone

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 1

Harold (Tom) Irwin (19), son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Irwin, of Muswellbrook, was the victim of a serious accident while at work at the Glenrock No. 2…

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Drowned in Presence of Wife

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 2

Ernest. Alfred Milnes, aged 26 of Stalker (Vie.), was drowned in th presence of his wife at Crayiish Bay, two miles from Cape Otway. With a party,…

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Bernard O Reilly in Car Collision

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 2

A motor-car, in which Bernurd O'Roilly, finder of the lost Stinson monoplane was a passenger, was involved-in a collision outside the Hotel…

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Young Man Injured Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 6

When his car overturned on the Aberdeen-road a young Muswellbrook resident Mr. Lloyd Wall, suffered a dislocated shoulder, lacerations and…

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Star's Anxiety Hurt In Accident "How's My Face?" London, March 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 1

"Is my face disfigured?" asked Meris Oberen the well-known film star anxiously to-day as the doctor attended her at a Middlesex…

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Picnic Tragedy Kurri Boy Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 3

Gordon Lilier, a Kuril youth, aged about 16, was drowned at the week-end in the Williams River, at Bandon Grove, about…

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Motor Fatality Accountant Charged SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 1

On a charge of having folonlously claim Arthur Stutchbury in the city ast night Aexander Parkins (22) in accountant was remanded until…

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