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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Head Injured in Fall

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 5

NEWCASTLE. Thursday.—Joseph Chanton, 53 of Woods.de-street Mayfield, received lacerations to his head and concussion when he fell…

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Two Injured in Car Capsize

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 May 1949 · page 1

When a car capsized on Scotch Creek road, Miller’s Forest, early this morning, two young men were injured and admitted to…

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Injured Man Dies

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Errol Francis Dallas, 32, of Cronulla, lay for five hours beside the Sydenham railway station in heavy rain…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 7

Milliam Waite. 37, of Cooper-street, Cessnock, miner, at Aberdare Extended colliery, who was struck by a fall of coal yesterday, received a…

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Accident Victims Slightly Improved

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 7

Two men who were",seriously injured in an accident on Saturday were reported to be slightly improved this morning…

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Three Injured in Collision

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 1

Three workmen, employed by the New South Wales Housing Commission on works projects at Greta Camp, were admitted to…

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Bus Conductor Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 2

Kevin Lantry. 21, a bus conductor, of 170 Lawes-street, East Maitland, who is an employee of Hunter Valley Coach Company,…

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Poddy Calf Causes Accident at Firefly

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 2

When a motorist swerved to avoid an 8 weeks old poddy calf, which jumped from the grass on to the road at Firefly on Monday, his car skidded…

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Stroud News Serious Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 3

Colin Dunn, second son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Dunn, of Stroud, was the victim of a very painful accident on Friday, May lath, when one of his…

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Drowned Near Jerry’s Plains

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 2

SINGLETON, Monday. — Coroner, Mr. B. A. Wood, this mornings found that Raymond Lance Killin Was accidentally drowned…

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Injured by Ambulance Car

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday — William John Roberts, 73, of Brtinswick-st,, East Maitland, and his wife Sarah Ann Roberts 72, of…

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Coroner's Finding On Jerry's Plains Tragedy Drowned White Attempting To Cross River

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 2

Singleton district coroner, Mr R. A. Woods, this morning found that Raymond Lance Killin, 23, was drowned while…

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Footballers injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 4

Three footballers were injured on Sunday afternoun. Jack Templet, 18, of Ann-street, Cessnock, received a probable facuture…

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Shoemaker’s Injured Hand

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. — The general manager of Stadiums Ltd., Mr. Dick Lean, said to-day that the American bantamweight fighter,…

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Railway Worker’s Foot Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1949 · page 3

Albert McKenzie Morrison, 23, a railway worker. suffered a probable fracture of the foot and shock this morning when a jack…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 1

Tom Shakespeare, 43, miner, of Main-road, Neath, suffered an incised wound to the right leg at Abermain No. 3 colliery…

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Five Injured in Smash

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—When a car and a lorry collided in Victoria-road, Ermington, last night five men were Injured, one critically…

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Girls Saw Mother Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 2

COLLARENEBRI: Schoolgirls Jane and Diana Sinclair, of Moongulla station, near here, saw their mother thrown from her galloping…

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Injured Foot

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1949 · page 5

CESSNOCK: George Kidd, 50, of Fisher-steret, Bellbird, a miner at the State Mine, Awaba, suffered a punctured wound in…

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