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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 49

Three Men Injured Bowral

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 8

Mr. R. H. Huntington, shire engineer at Mittagong, suffered several fractured ribs when his car left the road near. Berrima and crashed into…

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Two Drowned in Boat Capsize Brisbane

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 5

Two men were drowned when a dinghy from which they were fishing capsized Moreton Bay. The men were Bernard Robert…

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Fell Off Cycle Youth Severely Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 4

Oscar Crabbe (18) of 371 High-st., West Maitland, was admitted to the General Hospital In the early hours this morning suffering from injuries…

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100 Drowned (A.a.p Service.) TOKIO, June 29

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 2

The Home Office reports that 100 persons, were drowned, 50,000 homes were flooded, extensive damage done to rice fields and that all transport…

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Two Injured Car Overturned Into Gully NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 5

When the car they were riding in skidded and overturned into a gully on the Cardiff–road, Blackbutt, two people had 1 Darrow escape from…

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Wheeler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 4

Les. Linnertson, 33, wheeler, residing at Mount View, suffered lacerations to the right hand when it was jammed by a…

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Wrestler Injured by Fall Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 7

Dan O’Connor (16.9) received cerebral concussion when he crashed heavily to the mat after he had missed John Karan (15.9) with a flying tackis in the wrestle…

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Finding of Accidental Death Killed At Mulbring Kurri Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Kur[?] Kurri Distrio Coroner My A. W. Johns, at an inquest into the death of William…

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Four Injured On Cessnock Coalfields. CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 5

Injuries, were sustained by four miners ,to-day on the Cessnock fields. William Goodwin, 32, of Bellbird, employed as a clipper at Aberdare…

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Road Toll Decrease In Fatal Accidents SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 1

According to figured just releas[?]ed, road accidents increased by more than 4 per cent in the metropolitan area in the first four months of the…

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Road Accidents in the State What Figures for Four Months Reveal. Sydney, Wednesday

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 2

Figures just released reveal that road accidents increased by more than 4 per cent, in the metropolitan area in the first four months of the…

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Death at 101 Sequel To Accident SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 5

Mrs. Maria La Grace died at a Randwick nursing home yesterday aged 101. Her death was caused by shock as…

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Deaths in British Train Collision

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 6

Five people were killed and 23 were injured when a Plymouth express and a goods train collided at Slough (near Windsor) on…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 1

There were no fewer than five accidents at collieries on the Cessnock field on Wednes-day. Lyall Davis, 46, wheeler, of…

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Crashed Into Tree Man Killed In Car Accident TAMWORTH

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 7

[?] was killed, and Victor Water [?] seriously injured when their [?] car crashed into a tree on the New England Highway four miles…

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Gun Accident Dungog Girl Wounded. DUNGOG

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 8

Heather Moore. 21 of Dungog. accidentally shot through both legs while having her hair dressed by a friend [?]…

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One Killed, Five Injured Airmen in Road Smash

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 July 1941 · page 2

One man was killed and five others were injured, one critically, when a utility truck skidded and overturned on the Urana Road nine…

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Accidents to Milk Carts Dangerous Corner SINGLETON

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 July 1941 · page 8

It was stated a a meeting of the Glen-ridding Agricultural Bureau on Saturday night that two milk carts had turned over at the corner of Mary and…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 3

Richard Palmer, 38, of Ann-street, Cessnock, was struck by a fall of coal at Kalingo colliery yesterday. He wag taken to hospital by Cessnock…

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Accidentally Shot Miss Heather Moore

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 2

Miss Heather, daughter of Mrs. W. Moore, of Dungog, was accidentally shot through both legs on Friday morning last…

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