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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

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Minister Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Saturday— When [?] backed into [?] as he was about to [?] a car near a [?] the ey A W…

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Kurri Youth’s Death Accidental

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 3

KURRI KURRI [?]A[?] of [?] returned by the Kurri Kurri District [?] (Mr.[?]when…

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Injured In Tram-Bus Collision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday — Five school children and a tram driver were injured, but not serially, this morning when a school bus…

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Collision at St. Kilda W.a.a.a.f. Driver Killed

Singleton Argus · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 2

When an Air Force ambulance collided with a private car at St. Kilda, Melbourne, on Saturday, W.A.A.A.F. driver A.C.W. Phyllis Gertrude…

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Football Accident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 2

Jack Hards 20 of Southern Avenue Tarro a machinist, at Stewart andf Loyd’s suffered at severe [?] wound over the…

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Man Injured In Gas Explosion

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Tues.— When a man lit a match while looking for a gas leak in a shop in Gould street Bondi yesterday afternoon he…

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Fatal Accident Fell From Horse

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 2

Whilst riding home to Booral from Stroud on Saturday night, Mr. Cecil John ("Frosty") Maytom was thrown from his horse and killed instantly…

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£750 Damages for Archery Accident

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 3

WELLINGTON (NZ) Tuesday. —A five-year-old schoolboy, Richard and Norman Green, was awarded £750 damages in the…

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Accident with Bow and Arrow Boy Awarded £750 Damages

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 June 1943 · page 1

A flve-year-old school boy, Richard Norman Green, was awarded £750 damages in the Supreme Court at Wellington (N.Z.). The case arose out of an accident…

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Fatal Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 2

Whilst riding home to Boooral from Stroud on Saturday night, Mr. Cecil John ("Frosty") Maytom was thrown from his horse and killed instantly. The…

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Shunted Loses Leg in Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

TAMWORTH Thursday — When Reuben Collver 26 of Church street, West Tamworth was engaged in [?]…

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Accidents at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Thurs.— William Main, 55 of George-street, Cessnock, a miner employed at Pelton colliery, was struck by a fall of…

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Two Drowned In Bridge Collapse

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 1

AUCKLAND (NZ) Friday.— Two persons are now believed to have been drowned following the collapse of the central [?]pan of a…

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Bridge Collapses. Two Persons Drowned. Auckland

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 2

Two persons are now believed to have been drowned following the collapse of the central span of a very old bridge over the Manawatn River, near…

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Central Span of Bridge Collapses Two Believed Drowned

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 3

A message from Auckland to-day says that two persons are now believed to be drowned following the collapse of the central span of a…

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Accidents at the Mines

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Friday.—Frank Geaches, 18, of Cessnock-st., Aberdare, a clippe[?] employed at Aberdare colliery, [?] his tight…

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Peeps Into the Past Singleton 50 Years Ago (Prom Issues of the "Argus" Dated June 3. 7, find. 10, 1893) Nasty Accident

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 4

A nasty accident happened to a youth named Peel, about 17 years, a son of Mr. Jacob Peel, of Rix's Creek. Young Peel was at work at the…

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Accidents at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

CESSNOCK Monday.—When he was struck by a prop, Gor[?] Griffiths, 18, Heddon-street, Bellbird, received a fractured…

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Killed in Motor Cycle Accident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 6

SINGLETON Monday.— Pte Maxwell Walter Wliallin, 27, a soldier, of Anelalder SA, who was killed in a motor cycle…

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