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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

1,195 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 47 of 60

Boy Badly Injured Wagga Wagga, Saturday

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1940 · page 2

James White. 10, was taken to Wagga Hospital last night with extensive injuries received When the he was riding was in collision…

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Car Crashes Three Soldiers Injured Down Embankment

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1940 · page 1

There [?] were injured one [?] whose their car [?] over a five for[?] at We[?] Bridge on the[?]…

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Fatality at Level Crossing

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 1

Joseph O'Keefe, of Casino, was killed in a level crossing accident late on Friday afternoon. A motor-lorry loaded with pigs, which was being…

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Car Somersaults and Crashes Four Boys Injured

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 2

Pour boys were injured when a car, alleged to have been stolen, somersaulted and crashed into a culvert,…

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Schmeling Injured (A. A. P. [?]) LONDON, Sept [?]

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 1

According to the [?] [?] paper [?] the german heavy weight [?] [?] was seriously injured…

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Struck by Prop Mine Worker Injured CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 1

Noraman wakeman -46, of Second-street. South Cessnock, a mine worker, employed at[?] Central Colliery, received…

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Car Hit Tram Newcastle Men Injured At Mosman SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 7

Servant Clem Drawin, 20, of High–street. Newcastle, and Corporal Charles Payne, 20, of Mayfield, members of the A.I.F., were injured in a…

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Skater Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 3

While skating on Saturday, Robert Law of Godfrey-street, Cessnock, fell and fractured his right arm. He was attended by…

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Constable Injured Armidale

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 5

Constable W. Brogden, of Armidale, was admitted to Armidale and New England Hospital with slight concussion and a severe cut to [?] right…

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Level Crossing Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 4

(Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales) There were 51 level crossing accidents during the year ended June 30, 1940. In the previous year there were many more, and in the present…

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Claim for £3000 Fatal Accident at Islington Technical College Negligence Alleged Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 5

In the Circuit Court today, before Mr. Justice Street and a jury. Phyllis Murial Durbam, of Dalwood, near Branxton, claimed £3000 damages from W. E. Bramble, Proprietary Ltd., of Newcastle, and George Henry Fenwick…

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Road Accidents Drivers Become Careless N.R.M.A. View Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 4

Mr. W. Mason, publicly officer of the Road Safety Council, referred to the fact that road accidents were increasing in Newcastle, and expressed…

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Convicts Escape Desperate Attack On Warders Three Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 October 1940 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday, Four prisoners, one of them a murderer serving a the sentence escaped from Auckland prison last night, after…

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“Final Flutter” Petrol Rationing Road Accidents ([?] by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 October 1940 · page 4

Children in the environment of the [?] are happy and [?] but change their school [?] to a…

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Wheeler Injured Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1940 · page 7

Les Burns (25), or Cardiff-street South Cessnock a wheeler, employed at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, received extensive lacerations to the nose,…

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Level Crossing Accidents

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 3 October 1940 · page 4

There were 51 level crossing accidents during the year ended June 30, 1940. In the previous year there were many more and in the present year the figures are…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 October 1940 · page 5

Leslie Burns, 25, of Gordon-avenue, Cessnock, a wheeler employed at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, received a lacerated…

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Youth in Agony Unusual Accident At Tarro

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 October 1940 · page 4

Ronald Millington, 15. was the victim of a painful and unusual accident to-day at his home in Main-road Tarro…

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Injured in Collision Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 October 1940 · page 5

Mr. C. Mesrs, 61, of Hamilton, while riding & bicycle, came into collision with a truck at the corner of Steel and Tudor-street [?] Injuries…

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Car Hits Pole Four People Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 October 1940 · page 5

Three woman and a girl were injured when their [?] a telegraph pole at the intersection of High-st., and Belmore Road…

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