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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

1,300 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 65

Fell Over Cliff Boy Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 August 1937 · page 3

Alexander Sparks, 10 of Crown Road, Queenscliff, fell 45 feet over a cliff at Queeniscliff on Sunday, and was critically injured…

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Twenty Injured At Soap Works Fire £85,000 Damage Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 August 1937 · page 1

Twenty firemen were injured, one sev-erely, and damage estimated at £85,000 was done, in the [?] which destroyed the greater part of the works of Australian…

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Two Injured Coalfield Accidents CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1937 · page 1

When a horse knocked a prop from Its position in Aberdare Central Colliery to-day Ferderick Brown, of Moore street, Cessnock, a shifiman, was…

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Motor Mechanic Injured

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

Haydn Roberts, 21, a mechanic employed at Cessnock Motor Works, fractured his right forearm yesterday when a…

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Killed in Collision Athens, August 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1937 · page 1

Nine persons were killed and 30 injured in a collision between two Greek vessels in Piraeus harbour…

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Child's Bravery, Mountain Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 August 1937 · page 8

Joy Howells, aged eight years is the heroine of a mountain accident on the slopes near her home (states the "South African Newsletter"). A…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 6

When the motor cycle he was riding came into collision with a car at Kurri Kurri yesterday afternoon, John Wells, of High-Street, West Maitland, received a…

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Passengers Hurt in Tram Collision

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 3

When two trams collided at Kensington ou Monday, seven passengers were injured, two seriously. Francis William Thomas, 22, of Coogee,…

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HOOFBEATS Jockey Knox Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 9

Loading lightweight Jockey, A. Knox was injured in a fall at Richmond yesterday, an is believed to have a fractured collarbone. If the diagnosis is correct,…

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Struck Car Motor Cyclist Injured KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 August 1937 · page 2

When the motor cycle he was ridding came into collision with a motor car at the intersection of Victoria and Land streets last night John…

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In Collision Destroyer Damaged LONDON, August 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 1

The Admiralty announces that the third destroyer flotilla leader, Faulkiner, came into collision with the Clan McFadyen in a fog off Ushant while…

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Mine Accidents Admitted to Hospital CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 1

Frederick Henry, 25, of McDonald Avenue, Paxton, a labourer, employed at Stanford Main, No. 2 Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital…

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Trams in Collision 20 People Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 6

Twenty persons were injured when a crowded traincar collided with another, which was near the North Sydney tram depot last night…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 3

George Smith. 4S. of Vincent Street, Cessnock. a miner, employed at Aberdare Extended Colliery, received concussion…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 4

William Watson, 58, of North-cote-street, Aberdare, a miner, employed at Aberdare Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock…

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Tram Smash Glass Splinters Fly Twenty Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 3

Twenty people suffered injury when a crowded tram came into collision with another which was stationary, near the North Sydney…

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Horse Fell Mustering Accident CILOUCMSTMR, Friday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 3

James Seinbock, of Williamtown, kad a nasty fall from a horse while mustering cattle at Waukivery. He was brought to Gloucester for…

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Mine Accident Glen Innes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 3

E. Giffey, employed at the New England mine at Torrington, was admitted to hospital at Emmaville, suffering from broken ribs a crushed chest…

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Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 3

About midnight on Sunday a relief worker named Wormleaton was taking his wife and family to Bullahdelah from Newcastle when his car ran off…

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Woman's Fall From Window Man's Death Accidental

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 5

Mr lugleby Oddie, London coroner, in recording a verdict of suicide in connection with the death of Mrs Mary Warburton, who last week fell from a…

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