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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

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Man Injured At Factory

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1945 · page 3

Whilst at work yesterday at the Hume Steel Factory at Hexham, John Ralston, 21, of Station-street, Homeville, ran into…

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13 Injured in Tram Smash

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Friday. —When two trams collided near the Harbour Bridge end of Wynyard tunnel last evening, 13 persons were…

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Tram Smash in Sydney 13 People Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 August 1945 · page 2

Thirteen people were injured and over 100 had narrow escapes when a packed tram smashed into another, near, the Harbor Bridge end of…

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Milk Carter Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 11 August 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Sat. — Henry Pattinson, 26, of 15 Greenway-street. Wickham, a milk carter at the Co-operative Store,…

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Woman Injured In Fall On Steps

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 August 1945 · page 3

Falling down some steps at bar home on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Edith Edwards, of Bourke-street, West Maitland, received an…

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Drowning Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 2

On Thursday last a sad drowning fatality occurred at Coolongolook, when Lester Alwyn Platts, 19 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Platts…

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Car Plunges Into Creek Returned Soldier Believed Drowned. MAITLAND

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 2

Wallis Creek, on the East Maitland road, is being dragged by police to-day for the body of a soldier, who, it is believed, was drowned when a car…

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Two Cyclists Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 15 August 1945 · page 2

NEWCASTLE Wed. — When they tell from a motor-cycle at Catherine Hill Bay yesterday afternoon two men were injured…

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Three Injured When Car Overturns

Maitland Mercury · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 3

.'When a car overturned on the Newcastle road: approximately one mile from the Maitland side of [?] turn-off early…

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Experimenting with Fireworks Youth Injured by Explosion

Singleton Argus · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 1

Bryan Joseph Timms, 17, a Melbourne Technical College student, was severely injured when chemicals with which he was experimenting…

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Rider Injured At Sports

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 August 1945 · page 3

Failing From a horse whilst competing in a race at the Vacy sports on Saturday, Keith Roberts 18 or Paterson received…

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Fatal Accident Tragic Death of Mrs. Grahame

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1945 · page 3

The death of Mrs. Margaret Grahame, wife of Mr. A. Grahame, in tragic circumstances on Wednesday morning cast a deep gloom over the…

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Sequel To Motor Accident

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 August 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE Tuesday—The Rev Father Michael Joseph Portly, Vierar Administrator of Tannymorel was. at Warwick…

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Accidents in the Home Teach Children to Be Careful

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 August 1945 · page 5

Accidents of all kinds cause more deaths in Australia than pneumonia, one of the most dangerous of all diseases A…

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Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 August 1945 · page 4

NEWCASTLE Friday.— John Pritchard, 62, of Carrington, was fatally Injured at the coal-loading dyke. He was unhooking chains…

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Injured Whilst Shotfiring

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 August 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK Friday.— William Gall, 58, of Northumberland-st., Neath, and John Pickering, 53, of Main Rd., Neath, miners,…

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Muswellbrook Soldier Injured. Scalp Torn Away

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 August 1945 · page 2

A soldier on leave was almost scalped last night when he fell from an electric train at Town Hall Railway Station, Sydney…

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480,000 Killed, Injured, Or Left Homeless By Atomic Bomb

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 August 1945 · page 2

Atomic bombs killed, injured, or left homeless 480,000 Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according, to Tokio Radio. One…

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Apprentice Badly Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Sat.—A. Bull, apprenticed to E. F. Walker, was severely Injured when two young horses collided on the sand…

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Old Man Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1945 · page 5

While helping a timber lorry driver With a deflated tyre on Pacific Highway, near Kempsey, James Armstrong 71 was fatally…

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