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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

1,382 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 25 of 70

Fatal Wound Result of Accident GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 1

William Ellis, a well-known resident of Palmer's Channel, died in the Lower Clarence Hospital as a result of injuries received when a pea-rifle…

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Fatal Hour Car Accidents In U.S.A. Survey Figures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 10

One of the most comprehensive surveys made or motor traffic accidents is that conducted annually by the Travellers' Insurance…

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Rifle Accidentally Exploded Farmer's Wound Fatal

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 1

William Ellis, a well-known resident of Palmer's Channel, died in the Lower Clarence Hospital, on Friday as a result of injuries received when…

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Mine Accidents Two Men Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 6

Two men were injured at Bellbird Colliery this morning. Michael Burn, 25, of Bellbird, a wheeler at the colliery, had his left…

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Cyclist Injured

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

Bernard Bollen. 25. of Doyle Street, Bellbird. received a fractured left forearm, a dislocated wrist, and shock when he was…

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Car Smash Four Persons Injured SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 7

Two Maitland and two Sydney residents were injured when a car, driven by Mr. Frank Munro, of Sydney, overturned on the deviation on the…

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LOCHINVAR Death of Mr. E. Tuckey Motor Fatality Lochinvar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 5

Mr. Ernest Tuckey, of Dungowan, near Tamworth, who was killed in a motor accident at Tamworth, was a native of Lochinvar, where he was…

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Colliery Accidents

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

Michael Burns. 25, a whealer employed at Bellbird Colliery, and residing at Bellbird, had a, linger on the left hand lacerated…

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Injured in Runaway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 6

When a Horse bolted with a cart, Herbert Drew, 22, of Warner's Bay, was injured. Drew clung to the reins, but was knocked against a fence, and…

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Rabbit Causes Accident Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 2

J. Cooper, of Morang, had started to ride his bicycle when a rabbit, which was hanging on the handlebars, caught in the front wheel. Cooper was thrown…

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False Story "Aeroplane Accident" BATHURST

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 5

For having made a false report, to the Coonamble police about an alleged aeroplane accident, Patrick Colless, 17, was bound over for two years, at the…

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Three Injured At Cessnock Mines CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 10

Throe men were injured in colliery accidents in the district yesterday. Thomas Brenden, 21, a pit bottom hand at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery,…

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Injured Pilots Floods Block Rescuers Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 6

Two occupants of an aeroplane, which was forced down while distributing food to marooned settlers at the isolated. Hawkes Bay flood area,…

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Timberworker Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 5

Struck by the limb of a falling tree on Tuesday afternoon, James Smith, 52, timberworker, of Congewai, had his left…

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Accident at Mill

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 4

Mr. Jack Mooney was admitted to Greenbank private hospital on Tuesday suffering from a fractured ankle. It appears that Mr. Mooney slipped…

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Colliery Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 5

Alexander Home, 45, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, who is employed as a miner at Aberdare Central colliery, received…

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Hunting Accident Miss Boydell Injured GRESPORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 6

Involved in an accident in the Gresford show ring this morning Madeline Boydell, 16, of East Gresford, was later admitted to Gresford Hospital,…

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Cars Collide Four Persons Injured FORBES

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 9

Dust from a car which obscured the vision of the drivers caused a head-on collision between two other cars on the Forbes-Wirrinya road, injuring…

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Major Injured Launch Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 5

While spending the first day of his holidays fishing near Forster, Major J. R. Wolfenden, of the 13th Battalion (the Maitland Regiment) received…

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Drowned in Bath Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 6

Ethel May Gates, aged 57, a married woman, of Irish Harp Road, Prospect, was found dead in a bath at her home. She was fully clothed, and death was…

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