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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 49

Engine Driver Injured. Leaves Train at Singleton

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 5

Mr. Tom Hy[?]es, attached to the Muswellbrook loco depot, sustained a probable fracture of the ribs when he fell into an engine pit at…

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Three- Injured Car Out Of Control WINGHAM , Tuesday

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 1

Charles H. Moss Herbert Kabie and John Horsley , all of Newcastle were injured when their car got but of control between Wingham and…

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Sequel to Fatality at Railway Gates. Man Convicted for Negligent Driving

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 1

Wallace Davies, who is now in the Remount Depot at Holdsworthy Camp, was proceeded against by the police at the…

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323 Reported V Drowned Egyptian Slap Sunk By Raider(A.A.P Service) New York, May 19

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 2

It is learned that the Egyptian Steamer Zamzam (8299 tons) has been sunk by enemy action in the South Atlantic…

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At the Crossroads—Beware Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 3

Stand at the intersection of any two streets in any town or at any crossroads in the country and imagine the manner in which accidents could…

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Egyptian Steamer Sunk 323 Believed Drowned

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 2

It is learned that the Egyptian steamer Zamzam (8209 tons) has been sunk by enemy action in the South Atlantic…

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Teacher’s Claim High Street Collision Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 5

For Injuries he received when motor cycle he vas riding collided with a motor car driven by Alphonsus Bernard Moy, of…

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Struck by Bar Electrical Engineer Injured CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 5

Struck by a bar at Abermain No 2-colliery to-day, William Watson, 39, of Kearsley, electrical engineer received injuries to the right-ankle,…

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Death of Solder in Car Accident Allowance By Repat. Department SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 1

The first case in New South Wales under the recently amended repatriation regulations, providing for an allowance in respect…

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Teacer’s Claim Injur In Accident Motc Collision

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 May 1941 · page 6

Evident concluded at the Maitland [?] Court yesterday afternoon the case in which William [?] a school teacher,…

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Foot Injured Caught In Machine

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 May 1941 · page 6

Maurice Sweeney, 24 of Rous-street East Maitland, while working on a coal-cutting machine at Bloomfield-South Colliery last evening…

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Cessnock Private Twice Injured Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 May 1941 · page 6

Mr. Bill Brown secretary of the Cessnock Agricultural Association has been notified that his son, Jack has been wounded in action for the…

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Hand Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 7

The Superintendent of the Maitland Ambulance (Mr. J. Hicks) reports having received a donation of £10 from the HR Women’s…

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

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 4

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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Motor Car Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 4

A motor car, owned by Mr. W. R. Stephens, of Aberdeen, and driven by Mr. Norb. Peachey, figured in a mishap in the Newcastle district on…

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Bowser Fire Tragic Chain Of Accidents MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 10

While assisting firemen to quell a fire at a Berwick garage last night, a school teacher named Curron had a leg blown oft by an explosion…

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Tragic Chain of Accidents

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 1

An accident caused a big blaze in a garage and resulted in the death of a woman and serious injury to two men at Berwick (Vic.) last night…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 5

William Watson, 39, of Kearsley, an electrician at Abermain NO. 2 colliery, was struck by a bar from a coal-cutting…

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Bus Fatality Accidental Death Relief Worker

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 May 1941 · page 5

The deputy Coroner for Maitland (Mr. E. C. Scarlett) continued the Inquest to-day Into the death of William Robert…

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Camp Fatality Finding of Coroner

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 May 1941 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Deputy-Coroner for Maitland (Mr. E. C. Scarlett) when he to-day doncluded he inquest into…

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