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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1942

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Injured In Lorry Accident

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 December 1942 · page 3

SINGLETON Wednesday— Mr James William Lee. 58, was admitted to the Dangar Cottage Hospital last night by Singleton…

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Miner Injured at John Darling

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 December 1942 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Wed. — Arthur Thomson, 54, of Albert-street. Belmont, a screen-hand at John Darling colliery, suffered a…

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Believed to Be Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 December 1942 · page 3

Search was continued to-day for Gordon Wilson, 17, whose parents live at Bellbird, and who is believed to have been drowned…

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Youth Believed to be Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 24 December 1942 · page 3

Gordon Wilson, 17, whose parents live at Bellbird, is believed to have been drowned at Lemon Tree Passage…

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Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Thursday 24 December 1942 · page 2

Mr. A. Studdert, of Fosterton Rd., sustained a severely lacerated wound to the light forearm, some six inches long, when a pipe rolled on him…

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Boy Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1942 · page 3

SIDNEY Sat— Buton Blrkets of Humphreys road Bonnyrigg was drowned in George’s River at Casula pleases grounds…

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Soldiers Injured In Cycle Crash

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1942 · page 4

GOSFORD Sat.—A soldier was seriously wounded when a motor cycle Knocked a heavy guide post out of the side of the road three…

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Man Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 4

GOSFORD Monday—Harry Munsie, 29, [?] Chalder-street, Marrickville, bus drowned on Ettalong Ben[?]. He is believed to…

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Youth Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 2

Norman Crosdale 16, of Congewai, fell when a motor cycle he was riding skidded in sand yesterday. Cessnock Ambulance…

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40 German Internees Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 3

LONDON Dec. 27—Forty German internees, mostly Jews, lost their lives when a ship returning from Australia to Great Britain…

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Porter’s Finger Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 3

When a pinch bar of a waggon slipped at West Maitland goods shed this afternoon, the wheel fan over the first joint of the…

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Shooting Accidental

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday—After making extensive inquiries to-day detectives who are investigating the shooting of Miss Mavis Hagan…

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Detectives Satisfied Death Accidental. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 2

After making extensive inquiries to-day, detectives who were investigating the shooting of Miss Mavis Hagan, 16, of Rozelle, last night, are…

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Accident to Mr George Burns Junr

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 December 1942 · page 2

While attempting to take a tyre off a motor truck on Chrismas Eve, Mr George Burns, junr., of York Sreet, met with disaster when the…

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28 Injured When Trams Collide

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY Tuesday—Twenty eight persons suffered from seven oats, lacetions and contusions when ;a Chatswood-bound…

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Struck by Rim of Tyre Unusual Accident in High-street

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1942 · page 2

Driver H.H Clarke was admitted to a casualty dressing station this morning with a possible fracture of the skill and severe…

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Remarkable Chapter of Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 December 1942 · page 4

SCONE Tuesday—It falls to the lot—certainly an unenviable lot—of few to be the central .figure iif a number of serious…

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