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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

1,300 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 65

Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 November 1937 · page 3

Knocked down by a horse while at work at Aberdare Colliery on Wednesday, Austin South, 57, a surface hand…

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Scout Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 6

Ross sullivan, 17, of Collison-street, Tenambit, a boy scout, was chopping wood at the scout rally at the West Maitland park this afternoon, when the axe…

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News of the Day Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 4

THE Maitland District Coroner, Mr. C.G. Carr-Boyd, will conduct an inquest at the Maitland Courthouse at 10 o'clock on Monday next…

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Riders Injured Three Horses Fall

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 11

During the running of the Trial Handicap at Bathurst yesterday, three horses fell and three Jockeys were Injured, two seriously…

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Two Killed Head-on Collision Midnight Smash Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 1

Two men were killed late last night in a collision between a motor cycle and a car on the Northern Pacific Highway, Thurrmurra. The men killed…

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Deputy's Death Accident Verdict Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 6

The Kurri kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W.Johns) returned, a Verdict of accidental, death at the Kurri Courthouse to-day, when he…

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Kurri Inquest Mine Accident Probed Coroner's Finding Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 6

Struck by a fall of stone weighing approximately 12 tons in Richmond Main colliery on November 19, Richard Jones, 53, a miner, of…

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Gar Hits Pole Accident at Sandgate NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 8

Milton Delaney, 19, of Mayfield, was seriously injured into yesterday whim the car in which he was a passenger crashed into a telegraph polo on the Maitland…

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Bolting Horse Killed in Collision Car Damaged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 November 1937 · page 4

A bolting horse, which galloped madly along Melboure-street, East Maitland, on Saturday night last was killed instantly when it struck a sedan motor car which…

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Sub-station Accident Electrician Burned Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 November 1937 · page 4

Raymond Hopple 37 elecrtician of Pine-street Auburn received severe burns when he accidentally touched apparatus carrying 1500 volts of…

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ACCIDENTS Week-end Road Toll Fatal Injuries Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 November 1937 · page 8

Numerous accidents, several of which ended fatally, were reported on the roads during the week-end. John Lawrence Bent, 8, of…

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Accident to Touring Party

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 November 1937 · page 2

The manager and some of the employees of a firm controlling the popular electric "dodgem" cars were involved in an accident at…

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Fatally Injured Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 4

Riding a motor eycle, Harland Walthour thor (30), of Albion Park, collided with a lorry on a bridge near Brownsville, and suffered fatal injuries…

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Injured While Chopping Wood

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 3

Clarry Sneddon, of Mount View-road, Cessnock, was chopping wood at the scouts' rally at the West Maitland Park on…

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Dutch Prince Injured in Smash Now in Hospital Amsterdam, November 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 1

Prince Bernhard, the husband of Princess Juliana, heiress apparent to the throne of Holland, who was injured in a motor car accident, is…

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ACCIDENTAL Traveller's Death Smash Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 7

The Maitland District Coroner (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M.) to-day conducted an inquest into the death of Samuel Bridge (23), a…

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Painful Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 2

While branding bullocks at Sugarloaf last Thursday evening, Mr. Reg. Cox suffered a severe blow on the head from, a pole. He was conveyed…

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Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 2

Mr. Milton Delaney of Mayfield, a labourer employed at Bullahdelah by the Forestry Department, received a probable fracture of the skull,…

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Two Mine Fatalities Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 30 November 1937 · page 3

At the Kurri Kurri , Courthouse last Saturday morning, the District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) held an inquest into the…

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Two Girls Fall Into River One Drowned

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 December 1937 · page 2

While two sisters were standing on the bank of the Clyde River at Hamilton (Tas.) watching a boy fishing both fell into the water…

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