Miner's Tragic Death at Aberdare Colliery. Buried Underneath Fifty Tons of Coal Coroner Returns Verdict of Accidental Death
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 6
The Deputy Coroner (Mr. J.R. Scott) conducted an inquiry, at Cessnock Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon, into the circumstances surround the death of Benjamin Gilgetta. 66. miner, of Aberdare, who was killed by a fall of…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 5
Struck by a fall of coal at Aberdare Extended colliery on Wednesday, Albert Patterson, 52, miner, of Congewal-street, Aberdare, received an…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 6
James Fergus, 4, and Jabot Elliott, 6, evacuees from Hongkong, were drowned in five feet of water in a lagoon at Kirra Beach Coolangatta…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 5
A verdict of suicide was returned by , the Deputy Coroner (Mr. .E, C. Scarlett) when he probed the death of Roderick…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trams Collide Five Persons Injured SYDNEY
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 1
After a collision between two trams in the Wynyard tunnel last; night five persons were taken to hospital Twenty other passengers…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1941 · page 4
“ I am quite satisfied that it a-pure accident,” said the Depuir[?] Coroner (Mr. p. ft Scarlett. when conducting ; an Inquest [?]…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 2
At about half-past 8 last night, a minor accident occurred about tour miles cut on the Glenridding Road, between a motor car, which was…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 5
Two men we Injured in accidents at Cessnock district collieries to-day. William Duff[?] carpenter of Gal[?] Cessnock out his left…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6
Francis B. McGuiness 30, of Fairfield was fatally injured when the in which he and two other men were riding, crashed into a bridge…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 5
Two people were badly injured when a motor car left he road and struck a tree on the Pokolbin-road a few miles from Cessnock, on Saturday…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 3
When a car skidded in loose gravel near Bobbin Head, and overturned, Ray Reed, 19, of East Sydney, was pinned by the neck…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 5
Two persons were seriously injured in a motor accident on the Pokolbin-road, a few miles from Cessnock, on…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 2
During a solo training flight from Narrandera air station this morning a Tiger Moth plane crashed. A Royal Australian Air Force trainee, Martin…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 2
“We are at war, and whatever efforts of judgment might be made by these young men, I cannot dismiss the fact that they are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Echoes of Fatality at Aberdare South Colliery. Mining Engineer's Tragic Death. Evidence at Coronial Inquiry
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 5
The Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) yesterday conducted an inquiry into the death of…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 8
A verdict of-accidental death was recorded by the Cessnock District Coroner, Mr. W. S. Johnston, when he inquired into the death of Herbert…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 5
Struck by a haulage rope at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery yesterday, Noel Glover, 19, clipper, of Mills Crescent, Cessnock…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 6
Bulahdelah was the scena of another shocking sawmill fatality yesterday, when an employee of Booth’s mill, Mr. Jack Mooney, was killed by…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 2
John Duncan, a miner, of Aberdare-street, Kurri Kurrl, received an injury to his right eye while at work at Richmond Main colliery on…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 5
Edward Duncan, 17, of Cumberland-street, Cessnock, a tophand at Elrington colliery, suffered extensive laceration to the left hand when it was…
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