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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Man Injured Pawed by Rearing Horse

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 7

Patrick Barry, 61, a farmer, of Raworth, was holding a horse, which was being shod, in Mr. J. Greedy's blacksmith shop in High-street, West…

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Hurled to Roadway by Shock. Man Badly Injured. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 2

While working on an electric light pole at Bankstown to-day, William Fletcher, aged 37, was jolted by an 11,000 volt shock and hurled to the…

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Circuit Court Tram Man's Claim Accident Sequel Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 7

Arising out of a collision between a motor lorry and a tramcar on July 8, 1938, Stanley Gordon Wiggins, claimed damages from…

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Car Accident Sequel in Court Kurri Case Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1939 · page 7

John Hampton Cook, of Gillies-street, Kurri, pleaded not guilty at Kurri Court to-day to charges of having driven a car while under the…

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Tasmanian Fatality Burnie

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 12

Harry Knight, 42, married, of Dover, near Hobart, was killed in the bush when he was struck by the bough of a tree which he was preparing to fell…

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Woman Injured Thrown From Motor Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 7

Miss Jean Stevens, 21, of Great Northern Road, Rutherford, met with a nasty accident last night. She was thrown from a car and suffered severe…

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Victims of U-Boat 73 Persons Injured New York, October 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 1

The American liner President Harding has radioed that 73 of the passengers it rescued from the British steamer Heronspool, which was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish Coast, are injured, 23 of them seriously, while it is believed…

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£319 VERDICT Tram Man's Claim Accident Sequel Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1939 · page 7

The claim for damages by Stanley Gordon Wiggins, a tram conductor, from Anthony John Marshall, a carrier, was continued…

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Timber-drawee Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 3

Phillip Hile, 20, of Ward's River, a timber-drawer, employed by Frederick Phillips, timber contractor, of Pindimor, received an extensive…

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Lucky Escapes Car Capsizes in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 7

The occupants of a sedan motor car, which was involved in a collision with another car at the corner of Newcastle and Banks-street, East…

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Sequel to Motor Fatality Drunken Driving Charge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 1

At Kurri Kuril Police Court on Wednesday there was a sequel to a motor fatality which occurred in Railway-street,…

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Man Drowned Wife in Hospital BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 2

Henry George Bobbermein, 26, mechanic, was drowned in the Logan River, a few hours before his wife left a private hospital at Beenleigh, with…

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Fell From Pole Electrical Employee Injured ARMIDALE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 9

When he fell 25 feet from an electric light pole, Clyde Stanley Chadd, an employee of the Armidale Electricity Supply Department, suffered…

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Fatally Injured by Falling Tree Son Runs Three Miles for Help

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 5

Albert Osland, 22, ran three miles for help at Mandalong, near Morisset, on Wednesday morning, when his father, Sydney George Osland, 46, of…

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Road Accidents Increase in Britain LONDON, October 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 7

The Minister of Transport, Mr Euan Wallace, said in the House of Commons yesterday that deaths from road accidents in Britain last month totalled…

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Fatal Gun Accident Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 9

A cross-country aerial dash by "Flying Doctor" Moody, of Adelaide, failed to save the life of Mr. W. B. Berry, part-owner of Lake Stewart Station…

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Motor Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 6

Cameron's Creek was the scene of a nasty motor accident on Friday when a lorry belonging to Mr. T. J. Gooch, of Bullahdelab, was badly…

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Road Accidents in State Many Young People Involved

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 8

During the year ended June 30, nearly 1500 youths and girls aged between 15 and 19 years were Involved in road accidents in New South…

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Two Injured Motor Cycle Accident NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 October 1939 · page 11

When their motor cycle ran off the road at the Devil's Elbow, about a mile on the Newcastle side of Belmont, and struck a guide stone, two…

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Two Women Injured Lithgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 October 1939 · page 11

Two women were injured severely when their car overturned three times in gravel at Lowther, 12 miles from Lithgow. They were Ivy May Breeze…

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