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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Fatally Injured by Car

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY Thurs.—At the Newtown Court to-day Bernard Critchley (28), a carrier, was remanded until April 3 on a charge of…

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Injured In Fall From Horse

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 5

Desmond Lanky, 16, of Swan Beach, Hinton, a farm hand fractured Us left lower lag and sustained abrasions to the toes…

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Car Amokin Sydney Little Child Amongst Six Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

Six persons, including a twoyears-old baby, were injured today when a taxi, skidding on the wet surface of King Street,…

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Sequel To Thetis Accident

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 6

LONDON February 28.—No one can be made liable to pay damages to the widows of the 99 men who Iost their lives in the…

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Five Dead an Ship Collision

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 4

GIBRALTAR March 1.—Five members of the crew of 34 of the London steamer Herisle wont down with the ship and were…

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Mid-air Collision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 2

LONDON March 8—Two Fleet Air Arm Seafires presenting attacks against each other near Londonderry collided in mid-air…

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Two Injured by Car

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 4

KATOOMBA, Monday—An elderly man and his daughter were seriously injured when knocked down by a car in Katoomba last…

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Killed In Track Accident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 4

NEWCASTLE.—When a truck in which he was travelling with two other men skidded in loose gravel and overturned near…

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Unusual Accident

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 2

An accident of a most unusual nature occurred to-day, resulting in the victim, Mr. Vic. Knodler, taxi proprietor, of George Street, being…

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Fatality at Racecourse

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

On Wednesday afternoon last Mr. Victor Flanagan, of Loder-street, Quirindi, was exercising a racehorse and giving it barrier…

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Fall From Bullock Rider Seriously Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

When Don. Morris, well-known young Upper Rouchelite, was thrown from a bullock on the Muswellbrook Showground on…

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Injured By Chopper

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 3

Mathew Cahill, 53, of Aberglasslyn-road, Rutherford, a butcher, employed by Frank Hector, was admitted to Maitland…

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Increase in Alexandria Death Roll 50 Injured In Further Riots Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 1

CAIRO, March 6. Five Egyptians, who were injured during demonstrations in Alexandria on Monday have died, bringing the death roll to 22, including two British soldiers. Fifty were injured and 70 arrested during rioting yesterday…

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Death of Hebburn Miner Accidental

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 6

KURRI KURRI.— When he conducted an inquest at Kurri Kurri Courthouse into the death of William Russell Donald, 47, a…

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Local Lad Injured

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 5

Residents will learn with regret that Mr. Don. Morris who was seriously injured whilst taking part in the bullock riding…

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Not a Single Person Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 6

NEW YORK.—Not a single employee of the thousands engaged in the production of the atomic bomb in plants throughout the…

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Hebburn Miner's Death Accidental

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 5

When he conducted an inquest at Kurri Kurri Courthouse into the death of William Russell Donald, 47, a miner, of Cessnock Road, Weston,…

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Accidents at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Friday.—Richard Joses, 16, of Rothbury, fell onto his bead from a cart when the horse stumbled on Wills’s Hill,…

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Injured in Cycle Collision

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1946 · page 2

NEWCASTLE.—When a motor cycle and a bicycle collided at Hexham last night, twa youths and a girl were injured. They…

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Accidentally Shot In Bank

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Friday.—A bank teller who accidentally shot another when demonstrating how a bandit could hold up a bank, was…

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