Two Pilots Killed Within Few Minutes Double Fatality Near Karuah Yesterday
Maitland Mercury · Monday 14 May 1951 · page 2
NEWCASTLE : Two jet plane pilots were killed near Karuah yesterday within a few minutes of each other. The planer — Vampire Jets — crashed 200 yards apart, on of them diving into Limeburner’s Creek and the other into soft…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 2
TAMWORTH.—Four-yearold Violet Ann Thompson, was drowned late on Monday in the Peel River, between Bourke and…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 1
LONDON: Sir Hartley Shaw-cross, President of the Board of Trade, yesterday became the first person to draw an accident…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 1
NEWCASTLE: One-Man : was killed and three injured [?] a bus and a car collided on the Pac[?] Highway, near [?]…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1951 · page 1
PHILADELPHIA: At least eight people were killed and 68 injured when two passenger trains collided shoot ten miles…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 2
Two motorcyclists were injured in the Maitland area yesterday. Last night William Alfred…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 2
NEW YORK: Six members of one family and a friend were drowned when their crudely built boat capa[?] in the Cal…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 May 1951 · page 3
TOWNSVILLE: A North Queensland archer, A. Trotter, was injured when a steel bow snapped as he was about to shoot…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 5
BRISBANE : Australian Rugby Union centre, Keith Gudsell, who was injured in the New Zealand v Australian Universities…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1951 · page 2
Gordon Stevenson, 21 of Shedder-street, Cessnock, clipper at Aberdare colliery fell while leading horses into the mine, and…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 2
A man and his wife were injured when a car plunged over a cutting on the Pacific Highway near to Belbora Post Office, about 18 miles from…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 3
LISMORE.—A young farmer’s wife suffered terri[?] injuries when she was savaged by a sow on her husband’s property at…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 1
A miner was injured by a fell of stone at Bloomfield colliery this morning. Harry Edmunds, 36, of Carrington-street,…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 May 1951 · page 5
CESSNOCK: Ray Radnidge, 80, of Sheddon-st., Cessnock, a miner employed at the Bellbird Colliery, received injuries to the…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Saturday 26 May 1951 · page 5
When he was struck by a piece of coal at Bellbird Colliery yesterday, William Hartley, 27, a miner, of Stephen Street,…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1951 · page 2
A claim for damages owing out of o collision on the Medowie-Williamtown rood in February, 1949, was started at the circuit court at East Maitland to-day before Mr. Justice Kinsella end a jury of four…
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The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 30 May 1951 · page 6
Shortly after lunch on Thursday last, Mr. George Clayuon, worKing in the A.C. & Co. Tahow House, almost several Four…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 May 1951 · page 1
A boiler attendant at Maitland Abattoir needed hospital attention when he accidentally cut his hand with a tomahawk…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 May 1951 · page 2
The Coroner, Mr. A. M. Chandler, yesterday returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest into the death…
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Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1951 · page 2
Reginald Percy Fraser, 24, married of Chatham, near Taree was killed on Monday night, when the lorry and semi-trailer, e was driving failed to…
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