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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

1,195 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 60

Two Injured Car And Cycle Collied Improvement To-day

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 4

Two 17-year-old youths were injured when the motor cycle they were thing came into collision with a sedan motor car in New…

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Three Men Killed in Victoria. Motor Accidents At Week-end MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 3

Traffic accidents at the week-end claimed three lives, and a member [?] injuries…

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Accident at Saw Mill. Young Man's Arm Amputated

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 1

Alfred Henry Gray, aged 21, of Jeogla, had his, right arm amputated at Armidale Hospital on Friday as a result of an accident at his father's…

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Road Accidents in Queensland. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

During the week-end in Queensland two people were killed and 13 injured in road accidents. It was one of the heaviest lists…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1

While at work at Abermain No. 3 colliery on Monday, Ernest Williams, 41. a miner, of Harle-street. Abermain…

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Struck by Car Pedestrian Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 5

Struck by a car, which allegedly did not stop, in Elizabeth-street, Tighe’s Hill, to-day, a man received injuries which necessitated his…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 5

Peter Shadie, 2, of Church-street, Cessnock, trod on a garden fork at his home on Saturday, and received a punctured…

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Lives Blighted by Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 1

Through road accidents in this State since December 1 last, six children have been orphaned and from once happy homes they are now…

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Soldier Killed Knocked from Car Greta Fatality

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 1

When a car load of [?] was ret[?] to the carom at Great from a changes at Banking about 140 the morning a…

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Baby Killed by Accident Dubbo

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 2

The Coroner found that a baby had been accidentally rolled on and suffocated by either its father Or mother. The baby was the…

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Car Accident Rea[?] Eacs[?] Occ[?] NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 1

When a motor ear[?] twice and rouged alight on the [?] Highway near Belmont the yesterday afternoon two Sydney…

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Struck by Adze Carpenter Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 7

When the adze he was using slipped George Henry Edsor (44), of Great Northern Road, Rutherford, a carpenter employed by the Public Works…

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Injured Horses Make Good Progress

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 11

High Caste appeared at caulfield yesterday with a bandage, but it is obvious that he has recovered from the effects of the…

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Steps Broke Mayfield Woman Injured NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 7

Mrs. Lizzie Seuhens, 68 years of Maltland road, Mayfield was walking down some steps when they broke and she fell to the ground. She…

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Swept From Tram Conductor Seriously Injured SYDNEY, Thursday

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 7

Frank Murray, 27, a tram conductor was swept from the footboard of a tram by a passing track In Pitt-street. city, to-day, and…

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Two Injured Motor Cycle - Car Accident NEWCASTLE. Friday

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 3

Later yesterday afternoon two [?] men were injured when their motor cycle and a car [?] about four miles north of [?]…

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Shunting Fatality Well-known Family Bereaved

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 5

The sympathy of Dungog district residents goes out to Mrs. F. W. Moore, of Woodstock (nee May Walsh, of Brookfield), whose husband,…

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Two Injured Workers In Quarry

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 7

Two employees of the Martin’s Creek metal quarry were injured to-day After being attended to by the first-aid man at the quarry the…

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Flood Victim Man Drowned At South Gumly BRISBANE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 3

The first flood. fatality occurred at South Gumley, near Howe Hill, the victim being Prank Edward Hyde, 86, a fisherman…

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