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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Truck, With Injured Man, Stalls In Floodwaters

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 2

A truck, carrying an injured man to a waiting ambulance, stalled while travelling through several feet of water on the East…

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Test Men Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 4

LONDON, June 22. — Trevor Bailey, star of the first Test against the West Indies, has strained his groin and may not be…

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Baby’s Remarkable Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 2

East LANSING (Michigan), June 22.—One-year-old Timothy Anderson lost the tip of a finger when be stuck it into the joint…

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Drowning Fatality at Wybong

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 6

Claude Googe (37), single was drowned while attempting to cross the flooded Wybong Creek, at about 9 a.m. yesterday (says…

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Crossing Fatality in Queensland

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday. — In a level-crossing smash at Ferny Grove, near Brisbane, Keith Owens, 80, farmer, was killed,…

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Shooting Fatality at Dartbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 3

A very tragic shooting accident occurred recently, when Thomas Andrew Clark, aged 14 years, was accidentally shot…

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Wybong Drowning. Police Continue Search for Body

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 1

Muswellbrook Police have carried on the search each day for the body of Claude Googe, who was drowned in the Wybong Creek…

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"Shots From Picket Lines." Four Workmen Injured. New York

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 2

Wholesale arrests prevented further violence at Morristown (Tennessee) yesterday, after four workmen were wounded, one critically, in an…

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Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 10

The continued wet weather was the cause, indirectly, of an unfortunate mishap on Thursday of last week. Whilst crossing from her home to…

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Search for Body Postponed. Wybong Drowning

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 1

Owing to the muddy state of the Wybong Crock the police have postponed the search for the body of Claude Go age, who was drowned in…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 3

Cecil Ramsay, 27, of Main-road, Neath, a clipper employed at Abermain No. 2 colliery, injured his right forearm when he was jammed…

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Taxi and Cyclist Boy Slightly Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2

When a taxi and his motor cyclist collided at the intersection of Dowling and Brown Streets, on Saturday night, Eric Studdert, of Dungog, was…

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Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 3

Robert Mortimer, 34, of Thomas, street. East Greta, a sawyer employed at the Maitland Furniture Factory, had portion of the first…

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Three Mineworkers Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 7

Jammed between skips while at Work at Ellington Colliery yesterday, John Hicks, 21, shunter, of Lismoreroad, Abermain, received an injured…

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Kurri Mine [?] Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 1

Joe Hill. 16, Aberdare-Btreet. Pelaw Main, a clipper at Pelaw Main colliery, received a probable fracture of the left arm when it was jammed…

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Dredge Sank After Collision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 3 (AAP).— The sand dredge Sandcraft (2000 tons) sank in New York Harbour after she and the American…

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Eight Deaths In Motor Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 2

Percy James Teller district manager for Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and West Australia for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer,…

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Schoolboy Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 1

When he jumped on to a piece of wood at Abermain on Sunday, Allen Dodd, a schoolboy, of Cr. Maitland and Orange streets. Abermain, had…

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Rector's Son Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 3

Stephen Redman, 11, of the Church of England Rectory, In Church-street, Maitland, fell from a tree in the rectory grounds on Saturday and was…

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Tile Worker Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—William Moore, 15, of Congewai, a labourer employed at Cessnock Potteries, received a wound to his left…

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