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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

1,300 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 65

Ex-mayor Injured Uralla

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 8

When returning to his some, Mr. Thomas Martin Heagney, ex-Mayor of Uralla, was struck by a car in Bridge-street, Mr. Heagney, who was…

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Dived Off Ship Stowaway Drowned BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 5

A 1500-mile search for work by two young men ended tragically On Wednesday they stowed themselves away on the steamer Ngatore, at port…

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Sequel to Collision Car Driver's Claim Against Bus-owner. Verdict for £41/18/-

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 3

In the Cessnock Small Debts Court yesterday Leo C. Kelly claimed from Alexander McMurray the sum of £41/18-…

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Road Accidents During 1936

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

During 1936, there were 10,625 road accidents reported in New South Wales, 550 persons were killed and 6,894 others were injured, according…

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Hand Amputated Accident at Sawmill WINGHAM

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 1

Morvyn Allport, 20, had his right hand almost severed while sawing firowood at Erickshon's sawmill this morning His grip on plea of wood…

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Drover Injured Moree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 8

Jack Carter, 20, a drover, of McKenzie-st., Morce, was unharnessing horkes at Carele Crook when one of the animals holted, He became…

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Hand Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 7

When he had his left hand caught in the chain of a concrete mixer at his residence to-day. Harold Partridge-Well received a fracture and severe confusions…

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Motor-cyclist Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 1

When the motor-cycle he was riding collided with a car in Vincent-street yesterday afternoon, Jack Stevenson, 21, of…

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Girl Injured at Shooting Gallery

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 8

While walking in the crowded grounds of the Ney Plymouth (N.Z.) winter show, a girl, aged 18, was struck in the back by a bullet fired from a…

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Australians Injured London, June 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 1

The second speedway test match between England and Australia, which was scheduled to take place on June [?] has been cancelled owing to…

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Level Crossing Smash Near Bellbird Two Men Killed Five Others Injured Cessnock

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 6

When a laden coal train and a sedan car, in which seven miners residing in Cessnock district were on their way to work, collided at a level crossing near…

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Woman Injured by Mental Defective Heavy Damages Awarded (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 1

Mrs Holgate, of St. Anno's, was awarded £3500 and her husband £708 damages against the Lancashire Mental Hospital Board and two officials, who,…

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Miners Killed on Their Way to Work Two Dead Car and Train In Collision Five Other Men Hurt Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 1

In a terrific smash between a fully loaded coal train and a closed car about a mile from Cessnock this morning, two Cessnock men met their death, the body of one being…

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Tragic Level Crossing Smash on Kitchener Rd. Two Men Killed and Five Others Injured. Coal Train Collides with Car Carrying Miners to Work

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 3

A shocking accident occurred on the Kitchener-road this morning, when a motor car conveying a party of miners to their work at Aberdart Central Colliery came into collision with a coal train at the…

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Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 2

Jack Stevenson, 21, of Allandale-road, Cessnock, received a confused right eye, and abrasions to nose, hands and hips, when his motor cycle…

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Stop Press Accident Victims Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 7

Inquiry at Cessnock Hospital late this afternoon rev[?] that Filby was slightly improved, but the condition of the other four…

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Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 4

Mr. Arthur Kalie met with an accident at Neville's mill on Friday, when a log rolled on his foot and his ankle was badly injured. He is now in…

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Accident to Mrs M. Collins

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 6

Mrs M. Collins, aged 82 years, is an ininate of the Dangar Cottage Hospital with a fracturod right thigh. The old lady fell some days ago while coming…

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Colliery Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 3

G. Matthews, 32, a miner, of Hetton-street, Bellbird, had the fourth finger of his left hand crushed between a skip and a…

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Forest Devil Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 10

Erneat Douglan 17, of Howral-road, Mitlagong, while tree felling, was working the lover of a forest devil machine, which sprang back and struck him on the head…

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