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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

1,382 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 70

Bomb Explodes Man Badly Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 4

While he was making a bomb for the purpose of blowing up tree stumps, Russell Knaggs, 21, a milk carter, who lives at. Liverpool and Auburn Roads,…

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Woman Killed Two Others Injured MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 3

Mrs. Mary Shaw, 64, of Eton Court Plats, St. Kilda road, was fatally injured and two others hurt oil Saturday night when a small truck…

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Fatal Injuries Stroud Woman's Death Morpeth Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 July 1938 · page 6

An elderly Stroud woman died in Maitland Hospital yesterday as a result of an accident at Morpeth during the morning. She was Mrs…

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footballer Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

Bernard Forbes, 16, of Bellbird, was injured during a game of football on Sunday. Cessnock ambulance conveyed him…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5

William Wooderson, 44, of Hopetoun-street, Kurri Kurri, received injuries to a shoulder while he was working at…

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Creek Fatality Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 9

A post morten examination of the body of Herry Appichy, found in a creek near Corrimal on Sunday, revealed that death resulted from…

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Wheeler Injured Crssnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 7

Dominic Gllmore, 28, of Fifth-street, South Cessnock, a wheeler employed at Aberdare Central Colliery, suffered injuries to his right thigh when he…

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Pinned Beneath Car. Man and Wife Injured. Accident Near Scone

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

While returning from Scone with his wife and 10-year-old daughter on Saturday afternoon, Mr. S. Bates, headmaster of Willow Tree…

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Two Injured. Small Car Overturns

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 1

When a small car overturned on Saturday night between Ardglen and Kankool, on the road from Scone to Willow Tree, Mr. A. Bates, 35, a…

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Jammed by Skip Pitman Seriously Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 6

When he was jammed by a skip while at work this morning, William Crich, 28, ol' George-street, East Maitland, a pitman employed by the…

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Two Drowned Tragedy in Harbour Swedish Victims Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 8

Two men were drowned in Sydney Harbour off Ball's Head early to-day when a small skiff overturned…

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Dinghy Overturns. Swedish Captain and Member Of Crew Drowned. SYDNEY

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

Captain Nordin (60), master of the Swedish cargo steamer Anton, and Alexander Persson (about 49), were drowned, and Carl Persson…

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Fatal Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

According to a Press report, Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, 83, of Stroud, died in Maitland Hospital on Sunday afternoon as a result of injuries…

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Riding Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

Mr. Cliff ("Wick") Tickle had a narrow escape from serious injury on Thursday last, while riding on his father's property at Sugarloaf. A…

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Less Speed Means Fewer Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 2

The first official figures, released on Thursday night by the Minister for Transport, Colonel M. F. Bruxner, justify the Parliamentary fixation of…

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Man Run Over by Train Leg Amputated Accident at Weston

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5

Leslie Edwards, 51, of First Street, Weston, had his left leg so badly lacerated when he was run over by a coal…

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Body Identified Ball's Head Drowning Fatality SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 1

The second victim of the drowning fatality off Ball's Head on Monday night was identified to-day as William John Henry de Largic, S6, an old-age…

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Small Child Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 7

Warren Edmunds, aged three years, son of Mr. W. Edmunds, of West Maitland, received a lacerated wound to the back of the head, lacerations…

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Woman Fatally Injured Fell From Car

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 2

Mrs Elizabeth Thompson, 84, a resident of Stroud, died in Maitland hospital on Sunday afternoon from the effects of injuries received when…

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Toll of Infant Life Accidents in New South Wales '

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

"Over a hundred and twenty children under five years of age are killed by accidents in New South Wales, alone, every year…

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