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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Old Bar Fatality Coroner's Inquest

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 1

The Three Coroner conducted an inquest into the death of Ronald Gresham, of Stratford, who was fatally injured in a car accident on Old Bar…

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Coroner Warns Driver of Ill-fated Vehicle Young Man Accidentally Killed

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 3

At the Singleton Coroner's Court, held on Wednesday afternoon, the Coroner (Mr. A. Morrison) warned Lieut. W. J…

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Critically Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 3

KEMPSEY. Saturday. — Harry William Bird, 57, of Nicholson-street, South Kempsey had his skull and left shoulder fractured…

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Drive Against Road Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sat — The Premier (Mr. McKell) deplored the appalling and avoidable [?] of life in road accidents in New South…

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Fell Under Bus Kurri Man's Death Accidental

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 July 1946 · page 1

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pickering) when he held an inquest into the…

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Fatal Accident at Hexham

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 July 1946 · page 1

Whilst working at Hexham coal loading plant last night. John Lake 40, of East Greta, was struck by a locomotive, receiving…

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Foot Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Friday — Keith Jackson, 39 of Spencer-st., Cessnock a baker, employed by the Cessnock District Co-operative…

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Leg Injured in Colliery

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 July 1946 · page 5

Alan Featherstone, 22, of Dagworth West Maitland, a wheeler, employed at Bloomfield South colliery, received severe…

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Six Drowned in Flood

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 1

CALCUTTA, July 8. — Swiftly engulfing a town, the River Narbada washed half of Dindori, in the Central…

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Three Footballers Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 2

Whilst playing in the Maitland District Junior League competitions at Beresfield, Beresfield v. Homeville, three footballers-were…

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Two Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 2

NEWCASTLE: A man and a woman were fatally injured in road accidents at the week-end. They were:…

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Child’s Finger Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 3

Patricia Laing, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Laing, of (2 Anzac-street, West Maitland, suffered a severe…

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Twenty Injured In Gibraltar Riot Victory Contingent’s Visit Sadly Remembered (Australian Associated Press)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 2

LONDON, July 8. — Not even when 40,000 [?] were stationed there during the war has Gibraltar witnessed riotous scenes as those on Friday night in which members of the homeward bound Australian victory contingent…

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Killed in Jeep Accident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—LAC Vincent Joseph Meagher, a member of the RAAF Station at Narromine, died almost instantly when…

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Accidents at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 3

CESSNOCK Monday — Whilst working on a building in Vincent-street, Cessnock, to-day, Albert Payne. 59, of Ingall-street,…

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Child Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 4

TAMWORTH, Tuesday—The mas James Duncan, a years and months, was droved in shallow water in the [?] River…

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Drowned in Dip

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 2

GRAFTON Tuesday. 1— Staying away from his mother while the was washing clothes near a stock dip at Coaldele, Mervyn Narley…

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Baby Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 3

Eleven-monthsrold Gordon. Keppie. of Delprat Avenue, Beresfield, was playing this morning when he fell and his head struck…

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Bus and Cycle in Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 5

John Rockley, 26, of Ferguson Street, Cessnock employed at Abermain No. 2 colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital this morning suffering from a…

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Bus and Cycle in Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 3

John Rockley, 26, of Ferguson Street, Cessnock employed at Abermain No. colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital this morning sufferng from a…

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