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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

1,505 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 76

Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

Adam Thompson, 42, of Lang Street, Kurri Kurri, had the first three fingers of his left hand badly lacerated in an accident…

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Monk Injured Weather Argument

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 10

A Buddhist monk is now in Rangoon General Hospital recovering from injuries he received during a heated argument with the caretaker…

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Motor Smash Three People Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

When a motor cycle and sidecar collided with a car at Chullbra last night Montford Stachen, 24, rider of the cycle, sustained a fractured left…

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Fell Down Hold Deck Boy Injured NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 7

A deck boy on the s.s. Arcadia, a coastal collier, fell 25 feet down the hold of the vessel to-day and escaped with a fractured right arm, injuries…

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Parents Killed Cost of Road Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 5

Last Easter a man, his wife and two young children were motoring along one of the State highways to bring home for the holidays a…

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Accidents in Victoria

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

Road accidents in Victoria caused the deaths of 115 persons between January 1 and March 31, or an average of 19 a fortnight. The total…

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Parents Killed Cost of Road Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

Last Easter a man, his wife and two young children were motoring along one of the State highways to bring home for the holidaya a…

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Deputy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 5

Harry Pilcher, 65 a Wallace-street, West Wallsend, a deputy at Seaham No. 2 colliery, sustained a fractured left leg, a. probable fracture of the…

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Baby Drowned Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 1

Joan Valentine Spooner, 21 months, was drowned in a fish pond at the rear of her home in-Rose-street, Gardenvale…

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Drowned in Flood Man Swept From Car MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 5

The water on the Hume Highway Is 4ft. deep and has disorganised road traffic. Reports of torrential rain and floods…

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Soccer Player Injured in Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 6

Adamstown, which shares the undefeated leadership of the State Soccer League win Granville-Clyde, will be without, the services for the rest…

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Lip Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 5

Tessie Drane (2) of Brisbane-lane East Maitland fell at her home while [?] play this afternoon and sustained on incised wound to the bottom lip…

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Three Injured Motor Cars Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 5

When two motor cars collided at the Cross Roads, Cardiff, Frank Mairet, superintendent engineer for Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., suffered a large…

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Hit with Swing Schoolboy Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 5

Max Hamilton (10), of George-street , East Maitland, was playing in the children's recreation area on the West Maitland Park this afternoon when a…

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Injured Man Story of Hotel Brawl

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 5

With his face and clothes covered in blood, Charles McGuIre (31), of Lambton-road, New Lamb-ton, walked Into the Newcastle…

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Three Motorists Killed in Tasmania Holiday Accident Toll LAUNCESTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 6

Three persons were fatally injured when a motor car was struck by a train on the Wood bury level crossing. The victims were Cecil Glennon, 62, Walter Purdy, 32, and Madge Purdy, 22, his wife…

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Two Drowned Wave Overturns Launch Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 5

Two men were drowned when a launch, bringing eight men back from an Easter big-game fishing expedition to Mayor Island capsized on the…

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Badly Injured Crushed by Motor-Cycle GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 7

As the result of a motor-cycle accident on the Pacific Highway, Joseph Heffron, 38, of Allison-road, Randwick, was admitted to Hornsby Hospital last…

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Accident Sequel Successful Damage Claims

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 4

Two damages claims heard in the West Maitland Small Debts Court to-day arose out of an accident on the Maitland-Cessnock road in the early…

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Fatal Collision Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 4

When a tram and a motor-car collided in Parramatta-road, Forest Lodge, Frederick Percival Elliott, 30, of Five Dock, received injuries which resulted…

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