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Accidents, 1937

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 5
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

While walking underground to his work at Aberdare colliery yesterday. William Duffn, miner, Gallagher-street…

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Grandstand Collapses. Many Injured. Cologne

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 2

A grandstand, from which 5000 people, including highly-placed officials and diplomats, were watching a military parade, collapsed without…

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Toll of the Road. 543 FATALITIES; 7687 INJURED. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 2

In a report released to-day by the Commissioner for Road Transport, it was revealed that 543 people were killed and 7687 injured in 11,460 road…

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Four Accidents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 10

An inmate of Denman private hospital Mr. F. Brock sustained broken ribs when thrown from a horse. Later, pneumonia developed, and Mr Brock's…

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Girl's Death Sequel to Motor Accident SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 7

Alleged to have admitted to the police that he was travelling 45 miles an hour, and did not stop after the accident, Percival Charles Robinson…

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School Accident Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 7

Ronald Hill, aged 10, of Nulkaba, was admitted to the Cessnock Hospital to-day with a probable fracture of the left forearm, and suffering from shock. He fell…

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DENMAN Three Accidents DENMAN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 5

Mr. F. C. Brook was admitted to Denman private hospital suffering from broken ribs and injuries received when he was thrown from a horse…

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Motor Collision Gar and Truck Damaged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 4

When a motor and a utility truck collided at the corner of Elgin and Olive Streets, West Maitland, early this afternoon, the car uprooted a…

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Broken Arms Boys in Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 7

The Maitland Ambulance this afternoon gave first aid treatment for three fractured arms. One of them was the result of a fall at skating, the sixth…

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Gosford Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 9

Since September last year there have been 31 motor accidents (22 motor car, nine motor cycle) between Gosford and Peat's Forry. These have involved six…

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Crossing Collision Seven Persons Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 2

In a collision at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday, at a level crossing on a road entering Longford, 120 miles from Launceston, a mixed goods train was…

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Spine Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 7

Falling backwards over a chain at the Steel Works at Newcastle when drawing a bar out of a furnace, Christian Aus. 28, of Hamilton North,…

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Cricketer Injured Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 7

R. K. Oxenham, the well-known cricketer, was severely injured when a motor car eventurned at Toombul. He suffered a fracture of the skull and severe…

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Man Fatally Injured in Motor Smash Car and Lorry West Maitland Accident Clothes Torn Off

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 5

A lift to Maitland on a motor lorry had fatal consequences for a Kurri Kurri man this morning, for the lorry was involved in a collision with a car in West Maitland, and the man was…

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Petrol Explodes Two Men Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 6

A large hole was torn in the decking of a lighter moored in Shea's Greek, St. Peters, when petrol fames exploded inside. Two men on deck were hurled to…

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Caesar Injured Crashed Through Fence Out of Derby Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

Caesar was severely injured when he threw his rider and crashed through the fence at Randwick this morning. He will be unable…

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Figures Grow in Road Accidents Commissioner's Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 4

Despite efforts made to reduce the number of road accidents the figures continue to rise, according to statistics made available by the…

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Caesar Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 6

Caesar will not run in the Derby. The Silvius colt met with such serious injury on the track at Rand wick on Monday…

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Miner Injured Cessnock, Wednesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 7

Joseph Dixon, 46, a miner, of James-street, Cessnock, employed at Aberdare Extended Coillery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital to-day with a badly…

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