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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Injured When Horse Fell

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 2

GLOUCESTER.—Mr. A. L. Schmierer of Mograni, had a bad fall from his horse when it put its foot in a hole and rolled on…

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Injured at Colliery

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 4

Frederick Woods, 36, of 107 Carrington Street, West Wallsend, a wheeler employed at Rosewood Borehole colllery…

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Car Collides with Culvert Two Young Men Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

When a single-seater Morris car collided with a concrete culvert on the New England Highway, just north of Parkville, on…

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5018 Killed: 13,320 Injured In Indian Riots

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

LONDON, November 5.—Excluding the recent East Bengal disturbances, 5018 persons were killed and 43,320 injured in communal riots in India between the beginning of July and the end of October. Most of these casualties occurred in the rising in Calcutta in August…

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Car Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 2

He was taken by Dungog Ambulance to Newcastle Hospital. He arrived in Newcastle on Thursday night, six hours after the accident…

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Spine Injured Diving into River

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 2

Condition of Thomas McDonald 18, of Wollombi Road Bellbird who suffered a probably fractured mine when he dived into…

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Injured In Fall Of Steel

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1946 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.—Norman Davis, 35, of Shelley-street, Georgetown, a labourer, employed at Stewart and Lloyds, Newcastle,…

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100 Killed: Many Injured In Indian Riots

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1946 · page 1

CALCUTTA, Nov. 7.—According to official reports from Pama, 100 persons are believed to have been killed and many injured in riots in the Angarnausa area. Troops fired on the rioters…

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Eye Injured By Fragments From Broken Glasses

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1946 · page 5

Whilst at work at Brown’s Monumental Works to-day, Clive Vickery, 66, of Leslie-st, Lorn, received injuries to his right…

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An Unusual Fatality

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 November 1946 · page 1

Thomas William Nicholas, aged 15, of Greenwich, was killed when a tarpaulin blew off a truck in Macquarie Street,…

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Injured Baby Succumbs

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. — A sixmonths-old bay, Margaret De Roisse. died in hospital-to-day as a resolt of a car accident, in…

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Railway Officer Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 November 1946 · page 3

Crushed between trucks, William John Parsons, 49, of Georgetown, acting master at Broadmeadow yards, was fatally injured on…

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Motor Car Mounts Footpath Two Women Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 November 1946 · page 2

A motor car, which mounted the footpath in Pitt Street, between King and Market Streets, Sydney, jammed a woman…

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Fingers Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1946 · page 5

Andrew McNabb, 25, of Hampton Lane, Kurri Kurri, employed at the Bloomfield Stone Drive Colliery, was coupling s[?]ips this…

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Injured In Road Crash

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1946 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—When a car in which they were returning home early this morning and a double-decker [?] collided at the…

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Drowned in Colo River

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 November 1946 · page 2

Patricia Pemberton, aged seven, of Randwick, was drowned in the Colo River at Lower Portland, 15 miles from Windsor, yesterday…

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Injured in Car Accident

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 3

NEWCASTLE: When a car overturned uear Wyong late yesterday afternoon, two Newcastle were .inured. They were:…

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Denman 'News. Two Accidents in a Week

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 November 1946 · page 4

Mr. Cyril ("Mick") Dunn was involved in two accidents during the past week. Whilst driving a light truck for his employer, Mr. Ted…

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Boy Injured At Newcastle Abattoirs

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 November 1946 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thurs:—Daniel Meehan, 15, of 32 Dawson-street, Waratah, a salter at the abattoirs, had his left index finger severed…

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Sequel to Allandale Road Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 November 1946 · page 5

At Cessnock District Court this morning, Darreil Parker proceeded against Richard Jackson for damages to a motor-cycle and injuries…

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