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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 3

Struck by a fall of coal at Paxton Colliery yesterday, Joseph Jobson, 58. miner, of Francis-street Cessnock, received severe lacerations to…

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Shiftman Injured Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 7

Franck Rasenbrug, 50, of Fourth-st., Weston, a shiftman employed at Richmond Main Colliery, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri Hospital to-day with…

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General News Roadlayer Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 3

David Roper, 42, a roadlayer employed at Bellbird colliery, was lifting a skip yesterday when the horse moved forward…

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Echo of Fatality at Aberdare Central Colliery. Miner Killed by Fall of Goal Coroner Returns Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 3

At Cessnock Courthouse on Wednesday the District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) held an inquest into the death of John Waiter Fleming, 62, miner, of Love-street, Cessnock, who died at Cessnock Hospital on May 20…

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Restoring Her Beauty Surgeons to Remould Injured Girl's Face

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 4

Her broken features held together by a thin wire cage, 21-year-old Brenda Dawson, of East Meadway, Shoreham, Sussex, lies in Guy's Hospital, cheered…

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Inquest on Death of Late Mr V. T. Boyce Sequel to Elderslie Fatality

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 7

Three witnesses of the accident in which Vincent Thomas Boyce, 41, of Elderslie, was killed on May 12, told the Singleton District…

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Mine Accidents Bellbird-Stanford Main CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 7

Thomas Brown, 39, of Abbostsford-st Bellbird, a road-layor, employed at Bellbird Colliery, had his left hand jammed between a ship and a rail…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 4

Last week Mr. Hubert Gorton met with a painful accident when a piece of steel from a wedge he was using broke off and lodged In his thigh. He…

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Another Shotgun-fence Accident

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 6

George Murray, GO, a farmer, of Glossodia, near Windsor, was killed instantly when a pellet from a shotgun penetrated his chest while he was climbing…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 2

While following his occupation of roadlayer at Bellbird Colliery to-day. Thomas Brown, 39, of Abbotsford-street, Bellbird…

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Motor Road Accidents in British Isles Lessons to Be Learned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 8

Following on an exhaustive research into tho causes of 100,000 road accidents involving personal injury in Great Britain, valuable…

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ACCIDENTAL Lostock Man's Death Coroner's Finding Gresford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 4

A verdict that Stanley Clifford Skaines died at Newcastle Hospital on May 22 from a fracture of the spinal column accidentally received when he was thrown…

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Steel Explodes Man Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 7

John Patch, 20, of Canley Vale, was critically injured in unusual circumstances. He was sharpening a pice of…

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Youth Injured Struck by Axe CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 5

Aland Caban (18), of [?]long, was admitted to the Cessnock Hospital to-day with extensive lacerations to the left leg. When he was chopping wood in a…

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ACCIDENTAL Singleton Man's Death the Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Maitland District Coroner (Mr. C. G. CarrBoyd) in the West Maitland Court…

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Three Killed Accidents on Road Week-end Toll Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 4

An elderly woman a girl, and a youth died at the week-end as the result of road accidents in the metropolitan area…

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Drowning Tragedy at Grafton

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 2

Edwin Slocks, 31, a postal assistant, of Grafton, was 8 drowned, and! a companion, Leonard Cassidy, 17, a…

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Injured While Chopping Wood

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 3

When Alan Cabun, 18, of Ellalong, was chopping wood in a padd[?]ck next to his homo yesterday, the axe slipped and…

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Motors Collide Passenger Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 2

Mr. John Coyle, Secretary of Dungog Hospital, was involved in a motor accident on Friday afternoon, when a utility truck in which he was riding,…

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Man Drowned Capsize of Dinghy GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 5

When a 10ft, dinghy overturned in the Clarence River, 150 yards from shore, yesterday afternoon, Edwin Stocks, 81, a postal assistant, of…

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