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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Shooting Fatality at Putty

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 7

SINGLETON: The District Coroner, Mr. B. A. Wood, C.P.S., found that Ronald Herbert Neil, Ninness, 35, of Putty, died on…

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Killed In Motor Collision

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday — Frank Aid-ridge, of Spencer-rd., Killara, was killed when a car collided with a cement lorry at the intersection…

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Accidentally Shot By Friend Engaged To Deceased's Sister-in-law

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 6

Allan James Bell, who accidentally shot Ronald Herbert Neil Ninness at Putty Creek last Friday, was engaged to…

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High Road Accident Rate in Australia

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 3

HOBART, Sat. — Three persons are Injured every hour inroad accidents throughout the country, the acting Director of…

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Drowned Trying to Save Friend’s Wife

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Attempting to rescue a friend’s wife who was in difficulties in the river at Richmond on Sunday…

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Drowned While Attempting Rescue Manager of a Sydney Firm

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

The manager of a Sydney wholesale electrical firm was drowned yesterday when he tried to rescue a woman…

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Many Accidents At Miners' Picnic

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2

Lake Macquarie ambulance men had a busy time when Abermain No. 1 and 3 collieries staged their annual picnic at…

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Two Injured in Collision

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 2

NEWCASTLE.—Two men were injured, and another suffered from shock, when a car and lorry collided at Hexham last night…

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Narrow Escapes In Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 6

ABERDEEN: Two Aberdeen lads had narrow escapes from serious injury when they were involved in motor bicycle…

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Loco Attendant Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Harry Bath (54), of South Cessnock, a locomotive attendant at Aberdare Extended Colliery, received…

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Woman Injured In Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

Mrs. Isabella Crosley, 64, of Bell bird, received lacerations' to the forehead, an Injury to the nose, and shock ' when a car and a double-decker 'bus…

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A Grim Forecast. "Fatality on Open Cut Route."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

Mr. D. L. Crowley, headmaster Muswellbrook Intermediate High School, asked the members at last night's annual meeting of the…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

While cutting timber. Thomas Fletcher, 40. .of Northcote street, Paxton, a timber getter, lacerated his right leg. When he tripped and fell while at…

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Miner Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

Jammed between a place of coal and a skip at Bloomfield Colliery, Harry Taylor, 40, miner, of 40 Carrington-street,…

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Fingers Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Monday—Norman Elbourne, 46, of Congewai-st., Aberdare, had the tops of two fingers of the left hand severed…

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Lorry Driver Injured

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

A Maitland lorry driver was injured when his foot went through a hole in a wooden stage while loading his lorry at Greta…

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Injured by Air Rifle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 6

NEWCASTLE: Spiro[?] Spiro 7, of Cardiff, suffered a wound above his right eye when accidentally [?]it by a slug from an…

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15 Injured In Naples Rioting

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1949 · page 1

ROME, March 11.—Fifteen persons were injured in Left Wing rioting in Naples against the Atlantic Pact…

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Drowning Narrowly Averted

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 4

What might have been a drowning fatanty was narrowly averted on Thursday afternoon last at Raymond Terrace. While paying with other children near the…

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