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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Local Amd General News Footballer Injured by Late Tackle

Singleton Argus · Monday 31 March 1947 · page 2

Singleton footballer Dave Welch, who played with the local team yesterday against Lake Macquarie sustained a cut over the right eye which…

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Railway Man Suffers Injured To Foot

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 5

Alfred William Francis, 33, as distant station master, of William-st. Paterson, caught his root while working an automatic…

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Kurri Wheeler's Death Accidental

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 1

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner, Mr. W. O. Pickering, who held an…

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Bus Pushed 2 Feet Uphill In Collision

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 4

Evidence that a military motor cycle outfit had struck a ½ ton bus with such force as to push it two feet sideways uphill was…

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One Killed 100 Injured in Train Smash

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 1

CHICAGO, April 4.—The crack Minneapolis ,to Chicago passenger train was derailed at Bowers Grove station, 20 miles from…

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Four Injured in Smash

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 4

Four of a party of eight people travelling in a car towards Maitland on the Newcastle road late on Saturday afternoon were…

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Man Drowned In Foot Of Water

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 2

NEWCASTLE: An elderly Warner’s Bay man was drowned in a foot of water near Nelson’s Bay on Saturday…

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Two Injured: Car Hits Tree

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday. — When a car skidded on loose gravel and crashed into a tree at Inglewood, near Cooranbong,…

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30 Injured In Football Rush

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 3

LONDON, April 7.—Thirty people were hurt and received ambulance treatment during a rush at the Liverpool football club’s ground for…

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Four Injured When Car Overturned

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 2

Injured when their car overturned near Raymond Terrace yesterday afternoon, four people were taken to Maitland…

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30 Injured In Ticket Scramble

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 4

LONDON. April 7. — Thirty people were Injured at Liverpool to-day when 50,000 scrambled to buy 15,000 tickets available for a…

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Six Persons Died in Easter Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Six, persons died in accidents in nearly 40 were injured during the East at holidays…

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Tram Conductor Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Harry Newman. 21, tram conductor, of Holt Street, Surry Hills, was brushed off his tram at the intersection of Oxford…

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Newcastle Train Engine Derailed Crew Injured, But Holiday-makers Escape

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 1

The engine of a crowded passenger train travelling from Sydney to Newcastle was derailed between Morisset and Wyee yesterday afternoon. The engine dragged the leading wheels of the front carriage…

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Accident Victim Dies Newcastle Girl Succumbs to Injuries

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 2

Margaret Joyce Byrnes, aged 19, who sustained frightful head injuries late on Monday afternoon, when the motor cycle on…

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Seven Injured in Collision

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 6

INVERELL:—Seven passengers in a-truck were Injured when the truck and a motor-lorry collided almost, head one on the Armltdale Road…

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Jockey R. Hall Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thurs.—R. Hall, leading cross-country jockey, fractured the point of a shoulder, when Night Life tell with him at…

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Injured Knee In Fall

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 5

Mrs. Alice Burgess, 60, of Maitland Road, Paterson, sustained a lacerated wound to her left knee when she fell at her home…

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Drowning

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

An elderly gentleman visiting Nelson Bay was swept off the beach at False Bay and wan drowned on the evening of April 5th. The body was…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1947 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Saturday—While riding a motor cycle along Fullerton street, Stockton, Peter John Pearson, 19 of Dunhar-street,…

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