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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Six Killed, Five Drowned in Week-end Accidents Brother, Two Sisters Drown in [?]

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—There was a heavy accident at the week-end, when six persons were killed and drowned, while others were injured. One of the road accident victims wot Miss Una…

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Firemen’s Accident Premiums Are Too Low

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 2

LONDON, January 2. — Sixteen hundred firemen were told yesterday that their jobs are too hazadous for insurance at…

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Injured Girl Carried Five Miles

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

KATOOMBA,., Tuesday.—Strapped to a stretcher, Miss Pat Sullivan 80, of Newcastle, Is being brought out of Jameson Valley, oar tens,…

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Four Injured When Bus Strikes Tree

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Four persons were injured, one seriously, when a double-decker “bug struck a thick branch of a tree at The…

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Boy, 15, Drowned Trying To Save Cousin Holiday Fatality

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 5

A 15-year-old boy was drowned in a deep hole, on the Cockfighter Creek near Broke on Boxing Day trying to save his 12-year-old cousin who had got into difficulties…

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Motor Cyclist Skidded-Friend Knocked Down Two Men Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 2

A man who was riding his motor bike along the New England Highway near Belford, to meet a friend,…

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Three Hurt in Holiday Road Accidents Man in Hospital

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 4

Man and two women were injured in road accidents in Singleton during the Christmas and New Year…

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Baby Drowned During Mother’s Blackout

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A three-months-old girl was drowned in a bath last night when her mother suffered a blackout while…

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Vivid Eye-witness Story of Accident Inquest On Motor-CycIist’s Death

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

A dramatic eye-witness story of a fatal meter cycle accident was given by a bus driver when the Maitland Coroner, Mr. V. R. Jenkins, held an inquest yesterday into the death of Raymond Lyall Brooker, 21, carpenter, married,…

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Four Buses In Road Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

GOSFORD, Thurs.—Four buses and a lorry were involved in an accident a mile out of Gosford early last night, but only nine…

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One Occupant Injured in Mail Coach Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 4

When a mail coach overturned near Turill all occupants except one passenger escaped injury. The vehicle, which was being…

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French Seaman. I Believed Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Police are dragging the harbour at Waish Bay to-day for the body of a French seaman believed to have…

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Arrest Follows Fatal Car Accident

Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. — A 25- years old motorist was charged with manslaughter to-day, following the death of Neville Mantova, 23, of…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

Reginald Cyril Wallace, 61, agent, was admitted to Maitland Hospital late yesterday afternoon suffering from head injuries,…

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Fatality Near Coff’s Harbour

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

COFF’S HARBOUR, Monday— When a motor cycle crashed into a truck 11 miles from Coff’s Harbour, Mrs. Marjorle Lawler. 30. of…

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Rowan’s Injured Knee

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 4

PORT ELIZABETH, Jan. 8.— This South African bowler, A. Howan, who had cartilege removed from his knee after he…

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Two Injured In Road Smash One In Hospital

Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 2

A motorcyclist who was admitted unconscious to Dungog Hospital on Saturday night was this morning reported to be In a…

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Sequel to Collision

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 3

A collision between a taxi and A horse and sulky in South Avenue at about 8.55 p.m. on August 27 resulted in the appearance of the taxi driver,…

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Boy Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 2

A six-years-old boy, John Seymour, of Brisbane-st Lorn, suffered a probable fracture, of the ankle and shock when a…

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Mineworkers Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 1

Struck by a prop at Bellbird colliery yesterday, David Johns, 30, miner, of Gallagher Street, Cessnock, received an injury to the back…

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