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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 April 1938 · page 4

[?]orge Rennix, 34, of Hickey [?] Cessnock, a wheeler em[?] at Aberdare Extended [?] had his right hand…

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Head-on Collision

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 April 1938 · page 2

A head-on collision in which two cars were involved last night resulted in Mr A. S. Noble, of Ravensworth, sustaining fairly severe…

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Log Rolled Man Badly Injured GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1938 · page 5

While unloading logs from a waggon at Ourimbah, William Brownlee, of Ourimbah, was badly Injured wehn a log rolled off a lorry and dropped on…

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Distressing Night Fatal Accident and a Fire GILGANDRA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1938 · page 10

A pensioner named Emerson was knocked down by a car and killed on the Warren Road last night. Among the crowd which collected was the…

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Miner Injured Cessnock, Thursday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1938 · page 7

Struck by a fall of coal while at work at Aberdure Central Colliery to-day Edward Thirtle, a miner, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, received a…

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The [?]smellbrook Thronicle Thursday, April 14, 1938. Claim for £150 DAMAGES Aftermath of Collision. Plaintiff Awarded £35. District Court Action

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1938 · page 3

Leslie Raymond Lee (an infant), by his next friend, Rachel Margaret Lee, claimed £150 damages from Ronald Riddle in an action heard at the…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 14 April 1938 · page 5

While following his occupation of miner at Aberdare Colliery yesterday, M. Loosemore, 38, of Congewai Street,…

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Man Drowned Night Fishing Tragedy NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1938 · page 2

Reginald Brown, about 30, residing at Mayfield, was drowned near Walsh Island shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday morning when a fishing punt,…

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Four Injured Good Friday Mishap NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1938 · page 3

A man and three women passengers were injured yesterday afternoon as a result of a car skidding and overturning on the Pacific…

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Body Found Drowning Victim NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 3

The body of Reginald Brown, 30, of Villiers-street, Mayfield, who was drowned when a fishing punt capsized near Walsh Island early on Friday…

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Boy Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 4

David Pettigrew, 14, of Boyle-st., Bellbird, stood on a broken bottle yesterday, and received an extensive laceration to the right foot. He was…

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Four Missing One Found Drowned Skiff Overturns Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 3

One man is known to have been drowned, four others are believed to have lost their lives when a skiff over, turned on Saturday night between…

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Car Smash Two Youths Injured Over Embankment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 2

Two youths sustained serious injuries and another youth and two girls escaped injury when a motor car toppled over a 50ft…

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Fisherman Drowned Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 2

Stanley Albert White, 58, married, of Northcliffe, while fishing at Irwin Inlet, about 350 miles south of Perth, was washed off the rocks and…

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Drowned in Car Elderly Undertaker MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 5

When his motor car skidded off the Hume Highway into Wangaratta Creek, at Wangaratta. Mr. George Diggle, 80, an undertaker, of…

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Cyclist Injured Collided With Motor Car CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 2

When the motor cycle he was riding collided with a car at the intersection of Wollombi Road and Percy-street last night, Arthur Muxlow, 30,…

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Car Smash On Pacific Highway Four Injured Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 1

Three men were seriously injured and one hurt when two motor cars collided on the Pacific Highway early this morning…

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Mine Accidents In Cessnock District CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 6

Struck on the face by a jack handle while lifting a machine at Aberdare Extended colliery, to-day, Eric Alexander Stewart, 38, a machine man of…

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Car Accident Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 2

When a car, driven by her brother, Struck a verandah post of the Cale donian Hotel, Singleton, on Sunday, Miss J, Blair, of New Lambton,…

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Road Accidents Careless Pedestrians

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 4

An important and far-reaching legal decision was recently given in England as the outcome of an action by a motorist against a pedestrian who was…

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