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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Published by Special Arrangement CHRISTABEL Copypight Chapter Xiii. Accident at the Camp

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 August 1939 · page 4

Hidden behind a grove of chestnut trees on the slight uplands which rise to the hills behind Romney Marsh, was Cavanagh's child welfare camp. Thirty…

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Football Accident

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

Tea Gardens' star winger, Ned Davey, had his left shoulder dislocated on Sunday last, when playing against Miller's Forest. Ned had his…

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Man Injured Four Cars Collide NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 7

Four cars collided almost at the same time, and dose to each other, on the Maitland Road, Islington, this afternoon…

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Morpeth Man Injured: Thrilling Trip in Flood Area Moree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 6

John Chapman Harrison, 38, of Morpeth, broke his left leg and right thigh when he fell 20 feet from scaffolding while hoisting…

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Mine Disaster "Accidental Death" Verdict Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 7

When the inquest was concluded on the disaster in the South Mine on June 16, in which four men lost, their lives, the jury found that south…

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Five Injured Accidents At Cessnock CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 4

Accidents at the week-end attended to by the Cessnock District Ambulance were:— Leo Sweetman, 20, of Sweetman's…

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Miner Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 5

William Roddenby, 49, of 61 Boomerang-street, Cessnock, miner employed at Peiton Colliery, received abraslons to the back when he was struck…

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Five Injured Car Smash at Chatswood SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 3

When two cars collided at an inter section at Chatswood, five person's four of them members of one family were injured…

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Car Somersaults Man and Wife Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 3

James Weir and Mrs. Way Weir, of Queen's Avenue, McMahon's Point, were injured in a collision between two cars at Ashfield yesterday. Weir…

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Three Killed Four Motors in Collision Terrific Crash Terang (Vic.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 3

When a sedan car, which was towing a tourist car, crashed into a transport waggon and trailer loaded with nine tons of bricks, on…

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Nine Killed British Railway Smashes Many Injured London, Aug. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 1

Nine persons lost their lives as a result of two railway accident's in England yesterday. Eight persons were killed in a German train…

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Collision in Mid-air a Man Beheaded. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 1

What experts describe as one chance in a million eventuated when, during a mid-air collision between two air force bombers over…

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Failed to Stop After Accident Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 3

Police are searching for the driver of a car who failed to stop after the car had knocked down two men on the Prince's Highway, near Bellambi…

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Ran Into Horse Motor Cyclists Injured LITHGOW

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 8

Two motor cyclists suffered serious head injuries when the machine on which they wore riding crashed into a straying horse on the Great Western…

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Car Hits Pole Three Injured in Smash SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 5

Three youths were injured, two of them seriously, when a motor car collided with terrific force with a telegraph pole at Mortlake late last night…

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Coalfields Accidents at Week-End

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 1

After competing in a wood-chopping contest, Leo Sweet-man stepped on the blade of his axe. He was admitted to…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

Struck by a fall of stone at Pelton Colliery yesterday, William Roddenby, 50, miner, of Boomerang-street, Cessnock…

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Four Charges Sequel to Motor Accident at Lochinvar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 7

Arising out of an accident on the New England Highway at Lochinvar, on March 23, four charges were preferred against…

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Boy's Death Pea Rifle Accident MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 2

Keith Samuel Gledhill, 8 was killed by a pen rifle bullet in the kitchen at his home Tatura. The family occurred when the boy…

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