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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Nineteen Dead in Bus Accident

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 23 September 1950 · page 1

DARESSALAAM, Sept. 23. — Nineteen people died and 20 were seriously injured when a motor bus carrying 52 people rolled…

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Newcastle Drowning

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Henry Senter, 65, of King-street, Newcastle, was found drowned in the Hunter River…

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Wrench Slipped, Two Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 5

When a stilson wrench they were using at Millifield colliery yesterday slipped, John Baker, 33, of Mainroad, Heddon Grets, received a…

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Motorcycles Collide Three Men Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 5

Three men were injured when two motor-cycles came into collision on Allandale-road, Cessnock, last night. William Murray. 33, of…

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Two Injured When Car Left Road

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—When a car ran off the road at Black Creek Bridge, on the Cessnock Branxton road last night two…

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Detonator Accident

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. — George Molloy, of Cramm-street, Merewether, Injured his left hand when he exploded a…

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Transport Plane in Accident

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 1

TOKIO, September 26, AAP-Reuter.—Twenty-one of an estimated 48 persons on board were killed when a troop transport…

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Man Killed In Road Collision

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 4

CASINO, Wed.— Frank Scott, 45, traveller, of Lismore, suffered fatal injuries when his panel van and a utility truck…

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Injured Golfer’s Future Unknown

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Doctors at Evansville (Indiana) say it is too early to tell whether U.S. golfer “Skip” Alexander will ever…

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Leg Injured by Fall of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 3

CESSNOCK. Wed. — Amos Bridge, 59, of Millfield, a miner employed at Maitland Main colliery, bad his right leg severely,…

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Drowned on His Birthday

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 4

Pant Fitzgerald, 6, of Railway-st, Toongabbie, was drowned yesterday afternoon to a creek water hole at Seven Hills, it was…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 7

Struck by a skip at Richmond Main colliery yesterday, Leslie Armstrong, 26, miner, of Deakin-street, Kurri Kurri, Received an injury to his…

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Miner’s Back Injured

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 4

KURRI KURRI, Friday.—Leslie Armstrong, 26, a miner, of Deakin-street, Kurri Kurri, injured his back when struck by a…

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Motor Cyclists Injured In Collision

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1950 · page 1

Two young motor cyclists were injured last night when the motor cycle they were riding collided with a car at the intersection of…

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Timber-worker Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1950 · page 2

Francis Gill, an employee at Pender & Foster's Sawmill, on the Upper Allyn, was injured on Wednesday when a flitch of timber fell on his…

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Man Tells of Accidental Shooting

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A Redfern man was admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital last night with bullet wounds in the hands and…

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Motor Accident

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 1

Rider of a motor cycle involved in a collision with a car at the corner of Banks and Newcastle streets, East Maitland, on Friday…

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Five Killed in Road Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 2

DUNGOG, Monday. — Allan Ray Taylor, 20, of Brown-st., Dungog, was killed yesterday when a motor cycle he was…

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Foundry Fatality

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. — David John George, 57, of Wallsend, was killed when be fell and struck his head on some Iron at…

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Hexham Workshops Accident

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.—Crashed between two trolleys at the Home Steel Co’s works at Hexham, Ernest Osmond, 67, of Raymond…

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