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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 3

Gordon Thompson, 24, of Harris-street, Cessnock, a locomotive driver employed at El-rington colliery, was jammed…

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Boy Injured While Experimenting with Chemicals

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 2

Experimenting with chemicals at his home, in Goulburn, Laurence Prey, aged 14, caused an explosion which so injured his left hand that…

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Sequel to Car Fatality Negligent Driving Charge Kurri Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 5

Arising out of an accident at Neath Hill, on February 22, when James Percival Smith, of Pelaw Main, was killed, John Cowan, of…

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Woman Killed Car Crashes Into Fence Six Injured Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 4

A young married woman was killed, and six other persons were injured when a motor car. in which they were passengers left…

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Man for Trial Sequel To Motor Accident BULLI

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 2

At Bulli Coroner’s Court Joseph McDo[?]ugh hotelkeeper of Dorrigo was committed for trial at the next Wollongong Quarter Sessions on a…

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Injured in Ship's Hold Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 7

When he was caught between a stan[?]on and a s[?]ng a [?] hold this morning Alexander Nor[?] oof 78 [?]street Cook's Hill received…

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Sequel to a Collision Train And Motor Lorry

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 7

The sequel to a collision be tween the Morpeth train and a motory lorry at the Melbourne street crossing at East Maltland…

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Road Accidents Pile Up Again (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 2

Seven persons are known to have been killed and scores injured in road accidents n New South Wales during last week end. These are only preliminary…

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47 Accidents in May

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 6

Forty-seven accidents were included in the [?]18 cases dea[?] with by Mailland Ambulance during May Other cases were 172 transports and…

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Railway Fatality at Martin's Creek

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 2

The body of Heroin Oliver Milton Orchard, 24, a single youth, of Martin's Creek, was found on. the railway line near Martin's Creek…

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Sequel to Car Fatality Negligent Driving Charge Dismissed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 10

The sequel to a collision between two cars at Neath Hill on the night of February 22, when James Percival…

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Engine Derailed at Kalingo Driver and Shunter Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 3

A shoe from one of the brakes on a locomotive in Kalingo colliery broke away on Wednesday. Gaining…

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Woman Killed in Motor Smash Six Other Persons Injured. Tragic Happening at Nulkaba

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 1

The coalfields community was shocked beyond measure at the tragic happening in which Mrs. Elizabeth…

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150 KILLED Air Attack On Alexandria OVER 200 Injured (A.a.p. Service) LONDON, June 5

Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 1

Last night’s blitz was the heaviest that Alexandria has yet experienced. Low-flying planes plastered the…

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Dr. C. H. Scott Death Follows Car Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 1

Dr. Charles Henry Scott, one of the oldest medical practitioners in the State, and for many years in Scone, where he was regarded as one of the…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 3

Albert Burgess, 50, a timber-getter, of Congewai, had his right leg broken when a log rolled on him in the Congewai…

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Are Road Smashes Accidents? (issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 9

Casualty lists for the first four months of this year show that people are still being killed on the roads of the State at the rate of 31 a month…

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Late News Syria German Infiltration Goes on With Vichy's "Collaboration" Ankara Report Says Germans and Rumanians Massing For Attack on Soviet Mention of 100 Divisions on Polish Frontier. Cyprus Assumes Military Appearance Mr. Cordell Hull Outspoken. Will U.S.A Take Over French Possessions? Blitz Over Alexandria. — 150 Killed, Over 200 Injured. LONDON

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 1

While a series of Government conferences is continuing at Vichy on "the eventual defence of the French Empire," messages…

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Fractured Skull Carter Injured In Collision NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 June 1941 · page 5

When riding a bicycle this morning Walter Jenkins, 28, of 52 King’s Road, Tighe’s Hill, a milk carter, came into collision with a motor car at the…

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Youths Injured Motor Cycle And Lorry Collide. SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 3

When a motor cycle on which they were riding, was in collision with a motor lorry in Gardeners road, Rosebery two youths were injured…

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