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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

1,300 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 65

Two Deaths in Road Accidents Motor Cycle Somersaults

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 2

Ronald Eric Slater, aged 20, of Mortdale, was killed, and Ralph Jauncey, aged 25, of Punchbowl, was seriously injured when a motor-cycle and sidecar…

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Australian Air Accidents Not Unduly Great Shown by Statistics

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 4

Regarding the suggestion that the recent unfortunate air accidents indicated that Australia had an unduly high accident rate on its regular air…

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Badly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 4

George White Thomas 23. a mechanic employed by a Melbourne Machinery firm was severely injured when a place of machinery…

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Schoolgirl Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 5

Marjerie Tranhoime a school girl of kearsley was admitted to Cessnock Hospital late yesterday afternoon suffering form a fractured left army she…

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WESTON Wheeler Injured WESTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 4

Mr.T. Norris of Weston employed at Hebburn No.1 colliery as a wheeler was attempting to sprag up a skip yesterday when his hand was…

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Cattle Injured a Dangerous Turn GRESFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 2

The dangerous blind turn at the bottom of Willard's Hill was the scene of a crash yesterday. A timber lorry and trailer…

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Car Accident Driver and Passenger in Hospital

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 2

As the result of a car accident on the Gloucester-Taree road on Sunday morning last Mr. Oscar Olsen of Dungog and Mr. Snape of Monkerai…

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Seamen Drowned Swam Flooded River CAIRNS

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

Two members of the crew of the Adelaide motor ship Manunda, which arrived at cairns were drowned in the Barron River. They were…

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Riding Pillion Young Child Injured GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 10

Ray Edwards, the 10-year-old son of Michael Edwards Oak-road, Matcham, received a fractured left collarbone and abrasions to the leg when…

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Car Accident Returning From Ball

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 7

While returning from a ball at Woodville early this morning, three East Maitland residents were inveived in an accident shot half a…

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ECCLESTON Tree Felling Accident ECCLESTON

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

Mr. J. N. Jarrett met with a painful accident while engaged with his brother mr. H, K, Jarrett, felling the limb of a tree…

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Bad Smash Eight People Injured ORANGE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 8

Eight people were badly hurt in a head-on [?] between two cars on the Molong-road 18 miles from Orange…

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Man Killed Another Injured Lorry Over Bank Bulahdelah

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 8

A [?] man met his death and another was injured when a lorry ran down an embankment and overturned near Sullivan's Gap about ten miles…

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Tram and Lorry in Collision Three Persons Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 1

A tram-driver and two woman passengers were slightly injured in, a collision between a train, and a heavily laden motor-lorry in College-street,…

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Collision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 4

A serious accident happened last week-end when a horse-drawn vehicle which was driven by Mr. Theo. Gorton was overtaken and crashed into…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 8

A baulk fell and fractured the left foot of Lewis Philby, 30, a wheeler, at Aberdare Central Colliery to-day. He was…

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Cattle Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

A timber lorry and trailer travelling towards Gresford ran into a mob of bullocks at the turn at the bottom of Willard's Hill on Monday…

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Leg Broken Cyclist In Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 4

Late yesterday afternoon John Hunter, 37, of Stanford street Kurri kurri a laborer employed at Huxham work[?] was severely injured when…

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Boy Injured by Fall

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

While walking across a footbridge in front of his residence early last night, Allan Bourke 9 of High Street East Maitland fell and struck his…

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FOOTBALL. Two Players Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 7

The first match of the season, as far as the Merriwa Club is concerned, took place on the local showground on Sunday last between Muswellbrook and…

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