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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Cars in Collision Both Turned Over in Ditch

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 3

On Sunday night a car which was being driven along the Newcastle-Maitland road, in the direction of Cessnock, collided…

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Echo of Motor Collision Claim for Damages Success

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 3

Echoes of a collision which occurred on August 21, between a motor lorry and a motorcycle at the intersection of…

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Echo of Motor Collision Claim for Damages Succeeds

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 3

Echoes of a collision which occurred on August 24, between a motor lorry and a motorcycle, at the intersection of…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 3

Harry Ball, 46, a miner employed at Aberdare Extended Colliery, and residing at Shedden-street, Cessnock received a…

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Late William Gordon Benson "Accidental Death." Coroner's Finding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 1

Mr, A. E, Sluman J. P. (District (Coroner) held an inquest at Denman into the circumstances surrounding the death of William…

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Three Deaths Traffic Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 10

Three deaths arising from accidents occurred yesterday. Boryl Singleton, 20, Berowra, who was riding pillion on a motor cycle at…

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Accident at Railway

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 2

While taking in a supply of water for a railway locomotive at Dungog station on Saturday night, Fireman Payne missed his footing on the…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 3

Harry Ball, 46, a miner employed at Aberdare Extended Colliery, and residing at Shedden-street, Cessnock. received a…

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Mother and Son Injured Collision with Car

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 2

A young Albury man was riding a motor cycle, with his mother on the pillion seat, on Monday when both were injured in a collision with a motor car…

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Shot Explodes Miner Badly Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 7

John Johnston, a miner, 66, employed at Maitland Extended colliery No. 5, on Rothbury estate, was seriously injured this morning and admitted to hospital…

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Motor Fatality Inquest Date Fixed CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 1

The Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) will held an inquest at the Cessnock Courthouse on Tuesday, October 19, into the death of Paul Allan…

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Fatal Collision with Tram Girl Seeking Employment

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 2

Alma Munro, aged 17, of Adams town, died in Newcastle Hospital on Monday about half an hour after the bicycle she had been riding had…

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Mine Accidents Two at Pelaw Main KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 1

Two miners from the Pelaw Main colliery were admitted to the Kurri Kurri Hospital to-day as the result of accidents in the mine…

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Serious Accident to Miner Mistake Over Explosion Rothbury

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 2

John Johnson, a miner, aged about 60, was very seriously injured while working in a cut-through at Maitland Extended colliery No. 5 at Rothbury…

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Four Drowned Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 9

A woman named Butler and three children, were drowned near Darby Chalet, Wilson's Promontory. They had boon staying at the…

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Fall of Goal Kurri Miner Injured CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 12

Struck by a fall of coal in the Cessnock No. 2 Colliery to-day, Noah Banks, 53, a miner, of Alexander-street, Kurri Kurri, received injuries…

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Motor Fatality Inquest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 3

The Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston), at Cessnock Courthouse next Tuesday, will conduct an…

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Shotfiring Accident Miner Severely Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 9

John Johnston, 66, a miner, living at Aberglasslyn, was seriously injured as a result of a shotfiring accident while…

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Painter Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 3

Ernest Coleman, 53, of Nelson-street, Toronto, a painter, received an incised wound to his left wrist when struck by…

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Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 3

Mr. J. Piercey, well-known member of Aberdeen Rifle Club, sustained a nasty injury on Saturday. He was riding pillion on a motor bike with…

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