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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

1,300 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 65

Four Injured in car Smash SYDNEY. Friday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 5

Whon a motor car went over an embankment on the Pacific Highway, about 18 milos from Gosford to -day, four persons were injured…

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Boy Drowned After Meal Food Impacted in Larynx and Windpipe

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 6

"If the boy had not had a big meal shortly before he entered the water his life might have been saved," said the deputy coroner at the conclusion of an…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

Alan, son of Mr. Alf. Aurisch, of Segenhoe-street, Aberdeen, met with a nasty accident on Thursday last. The boy was sharpening a knife and…

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Accident to Electric Train Two Carriages Leave Rails Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 6

When portion of an electric train leaped the rails at Campsie this morning a carriage broke completely in two. A second car, which also left…

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Cricketer Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

When O. Chapman 32, of Boomerang street, Cessnock, tried to heck a ball from the fast howler, T. Wallace While plating for Weston against Hast…

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Baby Injured Lithgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 10

Shirley Faber, aged nine months, had a tee severed from the left feet when it was jammed in a collapsible chair, at her parents' home at…

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Bathing Fatality Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

Los[?] Mills cook, 31, a clerk, of Borwick - street, [?] was drowned while bathing in lake Parramatia will several of his friends. He was…

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Two Men Drowned Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 2

When a party of six yatchmen wan going ashore at Tauranga In a dinghy, the craft capsized four reached the shere, but the other two were drowned…

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Hit by Mattock Relief Worker Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 4

An Incised wound about an Inch long on the back of the head was received by Raymond Stows (23), a re. Het worker, of Charles - street, vent…

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Five Killed Motor Car Fatalities Many Injured Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 3

Edward William Lamperd, 35, of Hawthorn, son of Mr. J. Lamperd. who is the Advisory Traffic officer of the City Council, was…

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Three Cars Hit Belmont Accident Sequel Driver Heavily Fined Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 8

Charged In the Summons Court to - day with having driven a motor car negligently at Belmont and with falling to stop after an…

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Shocking Accident at Mascot Woman Pilot and Passengers Incinerated

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

A woman pilot, Miss May Bradford, aged 30, and two women passengers were incinerated at Mascot yesterday afternoon when a Klemm Eagle, after coming in contact with another machine, rolled into a spin, dived…

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General News Cricketer Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 3

While batting against East Maitland in the Hunter reserve grade competition, at East Maitland, on Saturday…

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Three Women Burnt to Death. Tragic Collision at Mascot. Crowd of Hundreds Could Give No Aid

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 3

Miss May Bradford and two other women were burnt to death in a 'plane crash at Mascot aerodrome on Sunday…

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Helled in Road Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 2

During 1936, 539 persons were killed in road accidents in New South Wales, an increase of 16 per cent, on the number of deaths in 1935. The…

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Shocking Accident at Mascot. Woman Pilot and Passengers . Incinerated. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 5

A woman pilot, Miss May Bradford, aged 30, and two women passengers were incinerated at Mascot yesterday afternoon when a Klemm…

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Fatal Collision Car Driver For Trial NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 5

On the night of January 15 James Anderson (45), laborer, of Seahampton, West Wallsend, was fatally Injured when a bicycle he…

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Boy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 6

When to fall while playing at the want Malt land park yesterday, James morral 10, of St, andrew - strool, West Maitland, received a probable fracture…

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Riding Fatality Goulburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 4

Harry [?] of Wingello was fatally injured when he was thrown from a herno near his home. Garb[?] body was found by his two sons…

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