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Accidents, 1937

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Back Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 8

Henry Fullick, 49, of Hobburn Estate Weston, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri Hospital with abrasions to the back. He was injured while…

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Aberdare Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 6

While Robert Pacer, 54, miner, of 39 Cumberland-street, Cessnock was topping off a skip at Aberdare Colliery…

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Level Crossing Smash Condition of Injured Men

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 3

William Lang, who was a member of the ill-fated party of Aberdare Central miners whose car collided with a coal train at…

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Level Crossing Smash Condition of Injured Men

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 4

William Lang, who was a member of the ill-fated party of Aberdare Central miners whose car collided with a coal train at…

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Injured at Work Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1937 · page 7

William Self, 31, or Pelton, a wheeler, employed at Bellbird Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital to-day, suffering from abrasions to the right shoulder and…

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Accident to Polo Player

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1937 · page 6

Tho first accident to mar the, progress of the Riverview Polo Club occurred at the week-end, when Mr M. G. Burgess was struck in the…

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Former Singleton Residents Victims of Car Accident Baby Daughter's Both Legs Broken

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 July 1937 · page 2

The news that Mr and Mrs Ronald C. Millar, of Manilla, and formerly of Singleton and their young baby daughter, are suffering…

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Fisherman Drowned Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1937 · page 10

Herbert George Wagstaff, about 45, married, of Matraville, was fishing off the rocks at Long Bay, when a large wage swept him into the sea…

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Driver Drowned Truck Fell into Creek MILTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 July 1937 · page 9

Arthur Gardiner, junr., of Milton, was drowned last night when the lerry he was driving crashed through the railing of Narrow wallce creek and…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 7

William Self, 31, of Pelton, a wheeler, employed at Bellbird Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital on Wednesday…

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Several People Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 4

Several people were injured in Belgrade on Tuesday when fresh disturbances occurred over the Concordat between Yugoslavia and the…

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Injured Finger Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 6

Robert Nicholas Hopper, 52, of Haddon Estate, a miner employed at Haddon No. 1 Colliery, was admitted to Kurri Hospital to-day with a cut finger…

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Woman Killed at Tenterfield Four Others Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 4

Mrs Grace Lydia Burnham, aged 54, was killed, and her daughter, Mrs Mervyn Kneipp, and Miss Avie Woolnough were seriously injured at Tenter…

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Runaway Motor Car. Five Men Injured. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 2

When a runaway motor car, after bolting down a steep hill at Marrickville to-day, crashed into the brick wall of a house in…

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Lightning Flash Two Men Injured Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 1

A remarkable escape from death was enjoyed by J. Harnett, and Norman Black, two agricultural workers, when they were struck by lightning…

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Runaway Car Crashes Into Brick Wall Five Men Injured Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 6

When a runaway motor car, after bolting down a steep hill at Marrickville to-day, crashed into the brick wall of a house in Shaw-street, five men…

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Car Overturned. The Ron Millar Family Injured. on Goonoo Goonoo Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 6

Mr. Ron C. Millar, his wife and their young daughter, former Merriwa residents but now of Manilla, who paid a visit to town at the week-end…

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Accident to Princess Elizabeth a Fall White Cycling (Australian Press Assn. Message) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 1

It was stated at Buckingham Palace to-day that Princess Elizabeth badly grazed-and sprained her left knee when she fell while cycling in the Palace…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 7

Thomas McGill, 45, of Rawson Street, Aberdare, who is employed at Aberdare Extended colliery, had the little finger of…

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Man Drowned Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 3

While duck sheeting Leonard Foreman, sewerage worker, of Altkenvaie, Townsville, was drowned in a deep hole in the Ross River, about 13 miles…

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