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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Pedal Cyclists Accident Problem SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1939 · page 9

The New South Wales Pedal Cyclists' Association intends to take action against every motorist who is involved in an accident with a cyclist…

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£435 DAMAGES Sequel to Motor Accident Brothers in Court Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1939 · page 9

The sequel to an accident on the New England Highway in December last, when one man was killed and two others injured…

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Nurse Injured Goulburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 2

The right of arm of Olga Mulcahy, a nurse at Kenmore Mental Hospital,' was cut to the bone when she fell against a window while on duty. The…

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Girls Drowned Caught In Undertow BUNDABERG

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 8

Two girl members of the Catholic Young People's Club were drowned on Sunday and others had narrow escapes when they were carried out of…

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Man Drowned Fishing Boat Upset HOBART

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 3

Hedley Freeman, 21, single, was drowned when a fishing boat capsized during a severe squall on the Derwent River, near Hobart, last night…

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Three Injured Motor Car Overturns KATOOMBA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 8

Three men were injured when a car capsized on a curve of the Western Highway, near Katoomba. The driver, George F. Godwin, 25…

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Cars Collide Four Persons Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 1

Four persons were injured when two cars collided head-on near Leppington Post Office, near Liverpool, late last night…

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Cars Collide Head-on 12 People Injured. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 2

Twelve persons were injured when two cars collided head-on near Lettington Post Office, near Liverpool, last night…

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Brain Injured Fireman Committed For Trial Man's Mentality Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 November 1939 · page 5

That a man, as a result of an assault, had been deprived of his mentality was part of a case for the prosecution in the Police…

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Miner Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 5

Mr. Kenneth Dann, a miner, employed at the Muswellbrook colliery, was admitted to hospital to-day, suffering from internal injuries sustained…

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Darwin Fatality Darwin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 2

Liept, Skottowe (27), of the R.A.N., was fatally injured when a motor car crashed into a telegraph pole. The driver of the car received a fracture…

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Close Shave Escape From Drowning WINGHAM

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 4

A narrow escape from drowning occurred at Kundibakh, between Wingham and Krambach, on Saturday last. Kevin Stackman, 3 years of age…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Struck Loose Gravel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 2

His motor cycle skidding in loose gravel on the Dungog-Stroud road early on Saturday, Ian Sullivan, 27, a timber-getter, of Clarence Town…

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Crossing Smash Woman Badly Injured JERILDERIE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 1

Miss Edith Bull was critically injured when a truck driven by her father, Mr C. W. L. Bull, grazier, of Gala Vale, came into collision with a…

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Miner Injured Coal Rolled on Him MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 November 1939 · page 1

Kenneth Dann, a miner, and chairman of the Muswellbrook Miners' Lodge, was at work on the coal face in the Muswellbrook mine this…

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Collision Aftermath Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 10

In the Causes Court, John Griffith, master of the Customs boat Vigilant, was awarded £200 against Harry Golstein, motor salesman, for injuries…

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Cyclist Injured Collided With Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 7

While he was riding along the Great Northern Road, Rutherford to-day, Roymand Pratt, aged 13, of Bridge-street, Homeville, became…

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Lightning Struck Tree Man Underneath Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 1

Rex Johnstone, 40, of Little Run, near Wingham, was fatally injured on Monday afternoon when a limb of a tree which had been struck with…

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Sequel to Fatal Accident Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 November 1939 · page 8

For having failed to stop and render assistance after his car had fatally injured a woman, Neil Douglas Watson, 32, an electrical worker, was…

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Constable Injured Motor Smash Near Jenolan Caves

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 November 1939 · page 9

Constable F. Dawson, police officer at Jenolan Caves, was admitted to Lithgow Hospital, with a wound in a leg and abrasions to his head and…

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