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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

1,382 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 70

Two Injured Cycle Strikes Pedestrian NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 5

A motor cyclist and a pillion rider wore injured when the machine collided with Ernest Kelly, 18, of Robert street, Argenton, who was walking…

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Walked Out to Chase. Bull Clergyman Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 1

The Rev. L. Anderson, Presbyterian minister at Walkerston, near Mackay (Q.), was badly gored by a bull. The animal disturbed the sleep of…

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Under Train Woman Gravely Injured Leg Severed Gosford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 3

Mrs. Walter Owens, 40, of Matcham, near Gosford, who fell under a train between Tascott and Point Clare stations was gravely injured last, night…

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Two to Pay Compensation Sought Farmer Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6

William Turnbull Duffin. c/o Cessnock Hotel, and Morgan Shakespeare, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, were each ordered at Cessnock Police…

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Struck by Train at Level Crossing. Baby Killed and Mother Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 1

A baby was killed and his mother and brother injured on Friday night when a motor truck on which they were riding from Bendigo to Swan…

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Tragic Road Accidents Week-end Toll Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 4

Pour people were killed and ten injured when the Murray Valley service 'bus and a motor-car collided on the Murray Valley…

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Schoolboy Suffers Shocking Head Injuries Instant Death Accident Near Floodgates Fell Beneath Lorry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 7

With shocking injuries to the head, a 12-year-old schoolboy, Clive Palmer Northmore, of King-street, Lorn, was killed instantly near the floodgates in West Maitland about 8.20…

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Local and General News. Accident on Sewerage Work

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

Mr Clive Haggarty, of Elizabethstreet, while engaged with a pick on the sewerage work this morning, met with an accident. The pick struck a…

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Motor Accident Near Gunnedah a Woman Killed

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 1

A motor accident which occurred on Mullaley road, about six miles from Gunnedah, on Friday, resulted in the death of Mrs Watson, wife of…

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Fatal Accidents in New Zealand. Shocking Death at Woollen Mills. Auckland

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

There were nine fatal accidents in New Zealand over the week end, apart from the loss of six lives in Saturday's train smash…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

William Chalmers (31), of Ferguson Street, Cessnock, a wheeler employed at Bellbird Colliery, received an injury to…

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School Girl Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

Irene Flaskas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Flaskas, of Denman, received injuries, for which she is receiving medical attention, when hit on…

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Cars in Collision On the Pacific Highway GLOUCESTER

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 5

A car, owned by Mr. Charles Robert Crossman, of 13 Bennett-street, Cremorne, travelling south on the Pacific Highway, near Stratford, came…

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Cask Toppled Bellbird Wheeler Injured CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 7

William Chalmers, 31, of Ferguson-street, Cessnock, a wheeler, employed at Bellbird Colliery, received an injury to the right leg and abrasions…

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Fying Boat Crash. Crew of Six Drowned. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 2

A naval flying boat, with a crew of six, participating in combined naval and aerial exercises, crashed into the sea near Brest. All were drowned…

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Injured Man's Ordeal Crawls Two Miles Leg Broken Goondiwindi

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

After one of his legs had been broken in a fall from a horse yesterday, Edward Binney, a station hand, crawled two miles on hands and knees…

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Crops That Went Bad Injured Farmer's Claim for Compensation. Echo of Assault Case

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

Echoes of an assault case which came before the court early in February last, in which the Complainant was…

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Fatal Accident Inquest on

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 6

The inquest into the death of dive Palmer Northmore (12), victim of yesterday's will be accident, will be held by the District Coroner, Mr. C…

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Simple Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

While playing at his home on Sunday, Fred, the elder son of Mr. H. Urquhart, fell a crack in his leg and fell over. On medical attention being…

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Colliery Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

Ernest Seymour, 37, of Kitchener, a wheeler employed at Aberdare Central colliery, was struck by a haulage rope…

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