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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Car Crashes Over Steep Embankment Driver Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

W. T. Collins, of M'Mahon's Point, was fatally injured on Saturday morning when his single-seater car crashed over a steep embankment…

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Abnormally Cold Weather on the Danube Families Homeless and Many Drowned

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

Thirty persons have been drowned and at least 800 families have been rendered homeless at Valcov, a fishing centre, in Roumania, by the…

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Five Injured Explosion Wrecks Shop £2000 Damage Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 3

Five people were injured, a shop demolished, and others partly wrecked, the damage being estimated at £2000, when a violent explosion…

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Week-end Accidents Toll of the Road Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 8

At the week-end a number of motor accidents caused several deaths, while many people were injured…

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Marks on Body Caused by Dog Verdict of Accidental Death. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

The Parramatta District Coroner to-day, at the inquest into the death of Michael Hardy Corbett, aged two years and 11 months, said he was…

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Colliery Accidents Four Injured Yesterday

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

There were several accidents at local collieries yesterday, the following casulties being reported:—…

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Winball Dead Injured at Wauchope

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 9

Winball was so badly injured in the Flying Handicap at Wauchope on December 28 that he had to be destroyed. Trainer R. T. Cross, who took Flash…

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Boy Killed Collision in Street BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 5

When a utility truck and a heavily laden motor lorry collided at a street intersection at Enoggera, George Bayham, 12, of Ashgrove, who was in the…

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Fatal Accident at Tuncurry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

A fatal accident occurred on New, Year's Day, when a small boy (son of Mr, Chas. Noone, of Nabiac), was knocked down by a motor carin…

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Motor Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

On a fishing excursion to Monkerai during the week-end a Ford utility truck driven by Douglas Shearman overturned. Messrs "Mac" Lloyd and…

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Boy Drowned Bathing in River BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 3

George Misters, 11, the eldest of a family of three, was drowned in the Brisbane River, at Indooroopilly. He was bathing with other boys, when he…

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PATERSON Lorry Driver Injured PATERSON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 7

A lorry was damaged when it left the road near the Gresford Hospital early last night, ran over an embankment and crashed into a tree. The driver, Mr…

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Car Fatality Woman Committed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 11

The District Coroner of Perth, Mr. T. Y. A. Lang, P.M., committed Mrs. Margaret Louise Dunlop, an elderly woman, for trial on a charge of having, on…

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Martin's Creek Accident in Quarry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 9

Bede Martin met with a painful accident in municipal quarry at Martin's Creek. A piece of metal struck him on the jaw, causing an incised wound…

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ACCIDENTAL Death by Drowning Paterson River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

A cycling trip to Paterson by two Maitland boys on New Year's Day ended disastrously, for one of them, Charles Thomas Millar (15), only…

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Cyclist Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 3

When the cycle he was riding came into collision with a motor-cycle in Aberdare-road yesterday afternoon, Les. Gibson,…

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Clipper Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 5

Raymond Roddenby, 17, of Ellalong Road, Pelton, a clipper employed at Pedlton Colliery, suffered a sever laceration of…

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Lorry Driver Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 2

A lorry was damaged when it left the road near the Gresford Hospital early on Tuesday night, ran over an embankment and crashed into a tree…

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Mother Drowned in Presence of Children

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 6

While her children, aged 4 and 2, stood on the bank, Mrs Kathleen Lily Kenning, aged 20, was drowned in the Collie River, West Australia…

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Man Drowned Tuggerah Lakes Tragedy GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 5

Leonard Orr, 29, of Long Jetty, was drowned in Tuggerah Lakes. He went for a swim just before dusk, and when he failed to return to his home, a search was…

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