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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Award for £950 Carpenter Injured SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 5

In the Supreme Court Sydney, Stanley Sindel, 38, carpenter, and formers amatear boxer, was awarded £950 in the action, which he brougt…

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Dungog Accidents Dungog

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 May 1941 · page 4

Whilst crossing the planting across the gutter fronting her home in Lord street, Dungog, Mr[?] Richard Lord, of Myles st, fell and sustained…

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Newcastle Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 2

At Newcastle on Sunday Mr. Edward James Russell, 57, of Bedford-street, Georgetown, was killed when a car skidded and overturned on the…

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Face Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 4

When a water pipe burst in his face at Hebburn No. 1 colliery, James Mullier, 28 of Fourth st., Weston received a lacerated wound. He was…

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Injured in Colliery

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 4

George Croft, 17, of Bellbird, a wheeler employed at Maitland Fixtended colliery, injured his back while working. He was taken by Cessnock…

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Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 5
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder, The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

Whilst crossing the planking across the gutter fronting her homo in Lord-street on Saturday afternoon last Mrs. Richard Lord, of Myles-street…

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Road Accidents in the Country Decline For The Quarter

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 3

In the first quarter of 1941 road accidents in country towns and rural areas declined by 24.2 per cent., from 578 In the first three…

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£2000 CLAIMED Injuries In Motor Accident Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 6

As compensation for injuries received in a motor accident at Weston on November 12, 1939, Arthur Barnes Alison Carpenter,…

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Road Accidents Decline (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 2

In the first quarter of 1941 road [?] country towns and rural road declined by 24.2 per cent, from 78 in the first three months of 1940…

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Injured in Collision Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 1

Mrs. Ellen Wrightson, 65, of Broadmeadow, was involved in a collision this morning, and received contusions and abrasions to the face and…

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Man Drowned in Wine Overcame By Fumes ADELAIDE

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 7

Harry Whitman, 23, of Alberton was trowed in 12 inches of wine in 5000 gallon fat at a subur han wine factory…

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Motor Collision Relief Worker Injured Circuit Court Case

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 4

Injured in a collision between a motor lorry and motor car, Wilfred Max Cox, of Melbourne-street, East Maitland, proceeded…

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Cars Collide Five Injured At Mayfield NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 8

Harry Head, 31, of New Lambton, received concussion, contusions, and shock when the car he was driving came into collision with another in…

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Car Overturns Young Man Fatally Injured DUNGOG

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 5

Walter Gilmour, 26, married a native of Dungog, and employed at a motor garage at Stroud, was fatally injured when a motor car…

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Two Injured in Car-cycle Smash Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 6

Two men were injured when a motor, car and a bicycle collided at Cardiff on Sunday afternoon. John Stuart, 41, of Boolaroo, the…

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Killed When Oven Exploded Cause of Accident Not Known

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 May 1941 · page 1

Arthur Cowell, aged 70, caretaker at Scott's foundry, Ipswich, was killed yesterday when an oven recently installed for the manufacture of…

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Circuit Court Relief Worker Injured Motor Collision

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 5

Evidence for the defence was continued at the Maitland Circuit Court this morning in the case In which Wilfred Max Cox, of…

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Case Opened Maitland Collision

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 5

The hearing commenced at the Maitland Circuit Court this afternoon of a case in which William Linney, of West Maitland, claimed £5000…

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