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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Injured During The Flood

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 1

Working under difficulties, with the cars garaged at Maitland General Hospital, officers of Maitland District Ambulance did…

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Accidental Death

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 June 1949 · page 2

District Coroner, Mr. B. A. Wood, today found that Rex Tucker, railway guard at Newdell Open Cut Colliery was…

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22 Injured in Plane Crash

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 23 — Twenty-two of 44 passengers on board a twin-engined Convair airliner were injured when it…

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Accidental Death

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 1

Singleton District Coroner, Mr. B. A. Wood, found that Rex Tucker, railway guard at Newdell Open Cut Colliery, was killed accidentally…

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Six Injured In Bus Smash

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 June 1949 · page 1

KEMPSEY, Monday. — Six persons, including two elderly women, were injured to-day when a bus and heavy lorry collided…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 1

Gordon Crossdaic, 21, of Jeffrey-street, South Cessnock,broke little finger of [?] hand while playing football on Sunday…

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Injured in Bridge Smash

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 4

A woman wot Insured late yesterday afternoon when a-smell car in which she was travelling was involved in a collision with a truck…

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Young Girl Drowned Tragedy at Coolongolook

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 3

Gloom was cast over the district on Saturday morning last when it became known that Esme Gordon, 15-years-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs…

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Fatally injured When Saw Broke

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—A . man was fatally Injured lo-day when a circular saw be was using In his back yard broke and a piece of steel…

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Many Drowned in Japan

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 6

TOKIO, June 29.—Many persons were dead and homes and farmland over a wide area were standing in water today in Kyushu as heavy…

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Injured At Abattoir

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 1

Maitland Ambulance this morning treated Ken Laing, 18, labourer, of 40 Wallace-street, Maitland,, for a laceration to the right…

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Trevena Committed To Trial On Manslaughter Sequel To Truck Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 2

The deputy-coroner (Mr. V. R. Jenkins) yesterday committed William Keith Trevena, 26, farmer, of Mistletoe Farm, Pokolbin, for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions on July 11 for allegedly felaniously slaying Ross Allan…

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Motor Cyclists Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 3

Two motor cyclists were injured, one seriously. In accidents in the Maitland area around midnight last night…

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Injured in Motor Smash

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 3

MUSWELLBROOK: A railway ganger, Leslle Herbert Spears, of Wellington, received critical injured when his utility trick was…

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Lucky Escape In Car Accident

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 3

MUSWELLBROOK: A remarkable escape from serious injury was the good, fortune of a driver and, a passenger, when the car…

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Canberra Drowning

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday. - - Canberra police yesterday recovered the body of a 85-year-old Polish migrant from the Molonglo River,…

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Six Injured in Crash

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— When a car and a truck collided at Kurrajong, last night, six persons were injured. Five of the injured were admitted…

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Badly Injured in Cycle Crash

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 1

PARIS, July 4.— Australian champion cyclist Billy Guyatt, of Melbourne, is feared to have fractured his, skull in a…

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Australian Injured In Grand Prix Crash

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 2

Australian champion cyclist, Bill Guyatt, is feared to have fractured his skull in a sensational fall yesterday and an…

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Chapter of Accidents on

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 2

A baby boy was drowned, two motor-cyclists and a push cyclist were injured, a backyard builder fell from a roof and a…

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