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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Neck Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

Falling head-first from a fence yesterday, Noel -Chapman, 9, of McArthur-street, Homeville, injured his neck and suffered slight…

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Motor Cyclists In Collision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

NEWCASTLE: Two motor cyclists were admitted to Newcastle last night after their machines collided about…

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Woman Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

A woman with arm and leg injuries told ambulance men attending her that she had been struck by a motor cycle. The…

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Hand Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

Injured in an accident at Ayrfield No. 2 Colliery today, Edward O’Hearne, 22, wheeler, of Park street, Greta suffered…

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Miners Injured By Loader

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 2

Two miners were injured when a loader left the rails at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery yesterday. John Snape, 41, of Ellalong,…

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Six Injured ln Train Smash

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday — When a light engine crashed into a stationary workers’ train at Roma street station…

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Injured Builder Making Satisfactory Progress

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 2

Inquiry this afternoon revealed that Mr Chris. Badior, of William Street, well-known local builder, was making satisfactory progress…

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Slight Injured in 45ft FALL

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—A man escaped with alight laceration to his right arm when he fell 45 feet from a residential at Many…

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Arm Badly Fractured in Motor Accident

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 2

James A. Mills, aged 28, of Manilla Street, Manilla, received a badly fractured right arm when the lorry he was driving along the Glenridding…

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Killed In Motor Collision

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A well known Queanbeyan man, Mr. William C. Howes, 54, was killed last night when a utility truck he…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 5

Whilst trying to avoid a motor car on Maitland road, at Haxham, to-day, Jack Long, 24, of Rous-street, East Mainland swerved his…

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Apprentice Jockey Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Apprentice jockey Kenneth Bornstein (20), was injured this morning when the horse on which he was…

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Fatal Motor Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 3

On Monday morning last a fatal accident occurred on the Medowie road near the Ringwood bridges when a motor lorry laden with timber got out of control and…

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Denman Road Fatality. Child Killed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 1

Roger Hargy (8) was killed when a car and a lorry collided at 6.20 p.m. yesterday on the Muswellbrook-Dennian road. The car…

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SEQUEL To Collision at Kurri

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 1

Thomas George Mitchell proceeded against Frank Phillips claiming £100 for damages…

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Boy Killed in Motor Collision

Maitland Mercury · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 1

MUSWELLBROOK, Friday.—A boy, three years of age, was Jellied and six other persons injured when a motor car and lorry…

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Head-on Collision on Denman Road

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 1

In a head-on collision between a car and lorry on the Denman road last night, a car turned over twice…

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Sequel to 'Bus Accident at East Greta

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 7

Giving evidence from a stretcher, a 76-year-old Cessnock women told the Supreme Court in Sydney…

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Pacific Deeps Mystery Scientist’s Theory , on “Drowned” Islands

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 March 1947 · page 5

SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press),—An ageless mystery of the Pacific deeps — how the “drowned Islands” between…

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Boy Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 March 1947 · page 2

WERRIS CREEK: Neville Vincent McNamara, of Mt. View, Lower Quipolly, was fatally injured when he was jammed…

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