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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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General News Colliery Employee Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 7

William Wilkinson, 25, of old Maitland-road, Cessnock, employed at Aberdare Central colliery, received an injury to his…

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Pursued Car Crashes. Two Youths Injured. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 2

The Police Safety Bureau car and a new motor car, which was alleged to have been stolen, figured in an exciting chase through several suburbs…

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Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 2

It is reported that on Sunday night last a car accident occurred on the Tuncurry-Taree road. It appears that the car, which contained Bullahdelah…

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Peppered with Shot While Mushrooming Shooting Accidental

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 4

Two sisters and their brother—Mildred Hamburge, 12, Joan Hamburger. 10, and William Hamburger, 8—who live in Blacktown Road, Prospect, were…

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Two Boys in the Harbour Narrow Escape From Drowning Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 2

Two boy, Peter Shelly and Peter Clark, had a narrow escape from drowning in Sydney Harbour this morning, when their small craft capizc…

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Woman Drowned Body Found in The Lake NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 5

The body of Mrs. Louisa Thompson, 56, of Main-road, Swansea, was found drowned in Lake Macquarie this morning. Deceased, who had been in ill-health,…

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Point Margin Players Injured Norths Reserve Premiers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 6

By a single point-16 to 15-Central Newcastle downed Waratah on Saturday, and will now have to meet Cessnock, the minor premiers, in the grand final. Really, to say that Central downed Waratah is not quite…

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Home-built Monoplane Crashes Pilot Not Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 3

A home-built inonoplane, with a young South Grafton pilot, Ales Mackie, at the controls, crashed from a height of 50 feet at South Grafton…

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Car and Train at Crossing Man Killed and Two Women Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 3

Charles Barton, an Inspector of the State Government Insurance Office, was killed on Friday, and two women were injured, when a car was struck by a…

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Two Men Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 2

Two men were injured in a collision between a motor-cycle and a car at Martin's Creek on Saturday night. William Bevan 20, of Martin's Creek,…

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Deputy Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 1

David Kerr (52) of Chamen-street, Cossnock, a deputy employed at Eiriugton Coilery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital to-day with an injury…

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Fatally Injured Girl Struck by Car SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 4

Beryl Williamson, 15, of Mascot, was fatally Injured when knocked down and run' over by a motor car close to her home…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 2

While carrying out his duties as a deputy at Ellington Colliery on the dog-watch shift last night, Dave Kerr, 50…

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Car Skidded Schoolteacher Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 5

When a motor car in which he was travelling alone skidded and overturned on the Pacific Highway near Charlestown, Cecil James Cox, 23, a…

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Fatal Shot Lithgow Boy's Death Accident Finding Lithgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 2

The Coroner (Mr. James Bamber) returned a finding of accidental death in the case in which Donald Whalan Bunyan, 9 was found shot in a…

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Accident to Telephone Linesman

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 2

While engaged at work on the trunk telephone line, between Antiene and Grassetree, on Monday afternoon, Mr Robert Spinks, aged 39, of High-street…

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Child Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 6

Joan Prosser, 17-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Prosser, of Rhenddn, near Teralba, fell unuoticed into a well 5ft. deep in a yard…

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Fatality at Quarry "Hit or Miss" Criticism of Farmers Mr. Dunlop's Reply Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 4

Mr. M. P. Dunlop, M.L.C., general president of the Primary Producers' Union, endorsed the sentiments of Lismore farmers whon he referred to…

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Three Accidents Treated by Ambulance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 6

Three accidents were given first aid treatment by the Maitland Ambulance Transport Brigade yesterday afternoon. Val Lawrence, 8, of Elgin-street, west…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 10 September 1937 · page 5

While following, his occupation of miner at Elrington Colliery yesterday, Jack Brown, 68, ,of Main-street, Kearsley…

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