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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Motor Cycle Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

Because motor cycles are favoured mostly by young fellows who are more apt to take risks than older men, the measure most…

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Gloucester Accidents Gloucester

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 2

A motor cyclist, James Raine, of Ma[?]rickville, was seriously injured when his cycle failed to take the turn at Baker’s Hill on…

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Car Passenger Injured NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

When the car in which she was a passenger collided with another car in Beautnont-street Hamilton, to-day, Joan Weatley,…

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Three Hundred Jobless Girls Injured Rome

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 1

About 300 screaming girl typistes were buried in rubble at Rome yesterday when marble staircase collapsed under their…

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Seven-Year-Old's Lucky Escape Was Apparently Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

A neven-year-old boy who was apparently drowned at the Cessnock Baths last Friday morning was discharged from Cessnock…

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Fatality at Abermain No. 1 Miner Killed by Falling Prop

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

A miner who jumped dear of a fall of coal at Abermain No. 1 Colliery shortly after work started yesterday morning was…

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Human Failure Causes Road Accidents Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 1

Transport authorides will make an all out “biltz” on people who cause road accidents, the Commissioner for Toad Transport…

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Boy Drowned in Lagoon Wagga

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 5

Reuben Geoffrey [?] aged two years was drowned [?] The child’s [?]…

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Accidental Death

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

They coroner, (Mr. V. R. Jenkins) found at an inquest at Maitland into the deaths of James Cook 47, and his nephew Ernest Raymond Cook…

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Ann Amputated After Accident SINGLETON

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

John Allen Stapleton was seriously injured last night when the car in which he was travelling collided with a coal track on the…

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Cessnock Accidents Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 3

Keith Roberts, 28, of Wollombi-road, Bellbird, a shiftman employed at Pelton colliery, had the first joint of the finger on…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 5

Thomas Lucas, 42, a miner, of Maitland-street, Kurri Kurri, had his chest injured at Richmond Main Colliery on…

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Borer Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 5

Harry Hodge, 28, a borer, of Alexander-street, Kurri Kurri, received injuries to his head while at work at Elrington…

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Car and Milk Lorry Highway Collision

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

On Wednesday night, a car carrying seven persons, including four children, struck the rear of a milk lorry proceeding in the same…

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First Aid for Injured Live Stock

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 6

When veterinary advice is unavailable, a farmer with a very sick or injured animal often has to resort to some form of…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 5

At Pelton colliery yesterday Keith Roberts, 23, of Wollombi-road, Bellbird, had a finger of his right hand severed when…

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Mineworkers Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 3

Three mineworkers were injured in accidents at local pits yesterday. Thomas Hodge, 26, of…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 3

Alexander Bigelow, 39, a miner, of Alexandra-street, Kurri Kurri, received an injury to his back when struck by a falling…

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Cycles Collide at Weston Three Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 3

Three people were injured wheh a motor-cycle and bicycle collided at Weston. They were:—…

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First Potato Chips Were Made by Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1951 · page 4

Potato chips, firm favourites with all Australian boys and girls, have an interesting origin. An American Indian cook who accidently dropped a…

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