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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

1,300 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 65

Man Drowned Tractor In Creek LISMORE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 10

Stanley Charles Gray, 23, laborer, of Eitham Farm Was drowned in Pearce's Creek when the tractor on which he was working capsized into…

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Police Injured Tram-Motorbike Smash SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 12

Constable Frank Hume, 31, of Edgecliffe. Esplanade, Seaforth, who received very extensive lacerations and other injuries and Constable Fred…

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Horse Drowned

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

A draught horse owned by Mr. Cecil Hancock and valued at £20 was drowned at the "Deep Hole" in the Williams river at Dungog on Tuesday…

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Lighthorsemen Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 10

Whilst practising "leaping from a horse" as part of his training in the Light Horse Troop, Toby Day dislocated his shoulder. This is the second…

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Boy Injured at Baths

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 5

When diving into the Municipal swimming pool to-day, Jack Tinkler, aged 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Tin[?], of 10 Alfred-street Cessnock,…

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Motor Cycle and Car. Collision in Bridge Street

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

A motor cycle and car came into collision at the intersection of Bridge and Hill-streets ort Sunday night last. The motor cyclist, Thomas Arthur…

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Motor Accident on Pike's Gap. Slipper Caught in Accelerator Pedal. Mrs. R. Townsend Badly Injured. Other Occupants Escape Injury

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 5

Several Merriwa residents figured in a car accident on Thursday night of last week, as a result of which Mrs. R. Townsend is at present an inmate…

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Fatal Motor Smash One Killed and Four Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

When a car crashed over an embankment at Camberwill, near Singleton, during the early hours of Tuesday morning, Patrick Turribull,…

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Power House Fatality Plunges Town Into Darkness Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 7

A large area of Auckland Province was plunged into darkness and the city tram traffic brought to a standstill for 12 minutes as a result of a…

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Improvement in Injured Victims of Car Crash Tragic Smash at Camberwell Bridge

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 5

An improvement was registered recently in the condition of all the four injured men who were in the motor car which crashed into Glennie's…

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Accident Victims Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 4

No change is reports in the condition of the victims of the Glenuis's Greek accident Los Wright, whose logs are badly crushad, is being…

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Fatal Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

Leslie William Turnbull, 29, of Muswellbrook, was killed, and three men and a boy injured late on Monday night when a…

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Man's Spine Broken Accident At Lostock

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 5

Suffering from a fracture of the spine, Mr. Walter Jenkins, of Allynbrook, was taken by the Maitland Ambulance on Tuesday from…

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Soccer Star Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 7

Westen took the field to-day at wallaend without one of its stars jacky Drinwater, who is suffering from an injured ankle He has been…

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Girls Injured Negligent Driving Case GLOUCESTER

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 5

Austin Tull pleaded "Guilty" at the Gloueester police court to a charge of negligent driving He was fined £10, in default 20 days' hard labor…

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First Aid Traffic Accidents U.S.A. SCHEME

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 8

During a recent convention of the American Academy of Surgeons, a noted surgeon of St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago (Dr. E…

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Injured in Mine Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 2

Mr. G. price, star goal-keeper of the Kurri Kurri soccor team, tho is a resident of weston, was unable to play on saturday owing to injuries…

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Man Drowned Fell Into Harbor SYDNEY, Monday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 3

When he fell from a motor launch into the harbor, [?] Beaten, 10 of North Sydney, was droned, His body has not been receivered…

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Man Drowned From Launch Companions Helpless When Engine Stopped

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 2

Falling from a motor-launch into the habour on Saturday night, Malcolm Beaton, 40, of North Sydney, was drowned…

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Sulky Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 4

Mr. J.J. O'Hearn, 35, a farmer of Miller's Forest received an incised wound to the right side of the bead, contusions to right eye and abrasion…

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