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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Miner’s Finger Injured CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3

Lesile Hayes, 84, of Love street Cessnock, a wheeler at Aberdare, had the top of the little finger of his left hand severed to-day when…

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Injured Man in Cave on Glacier Wellington (N.z.)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

Two men—one badly Injured— have been at the mercy of the elements in an Ice, cave high in the Southern Alps above Fox…

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Colliery Employees Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3

Freeman Fogg, 64, of Bellbird, [?] top hand employed at Bellbird colliery, received an injury to his right knee when he fell at work…

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Man Injured in Coal Blast

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3

Small fragments of coal, dred by an exploding charge of powder, struck and injured a wheeler at Rathluba colliery this morning…

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Pillion Rider Injured

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

When his motor cycle skidded and ran off the road over a culvert near Hamberger's on the Pacific Highway near Gloucester, on Sunday…

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Fatal Road Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, a fatal motor accident occurred on the Hexham road, near Heatherbrae. A car driven by Albert Exeringham, 28, of…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 5

Thomas Craft, 30, miner, of Northcote-street, Aberdare, had the first joint of the middle and index fingers severed when he…

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Collision After Horse Rolted

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 5

A milk cart being drawn by a bolting horse and a small car collided at the corner of Newcastle-road and Melbourne-street,…

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Woman Feared Drowned Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 5

Police suspect that a woman whose neatly-folded clothes were found at Maroubra bench last night, may have drowned…

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Widow's Claim Fails Neath Level Crossing Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 1

Sarah Ann Hall, of Subiaco-avenue, Cessnock, widow of Albert Edward Hall, electrical fitter, who was killed when…

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Death of Two Mineworkers Railway Fatality at Neath

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 5

Two mineworkers met their deaths after having been struck by a locomotive on the railway line between the…

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Ek-muswellbrook Resident. Killed in Motor Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 1

On Tuesday last, Mr. Trev. Hallett was advised by telegram by Mrs. Simmons (nee Miss Myrtle Teasdale) that her brother, Victor, had been…

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Double Accident on Highway

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 5

Two separate accidents occurred at the same spot on the New England Highway, on the Singleton side of Branxton, after…

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Ferries in Collision Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 6

Several passengers had narrow escapes when two terries collided on Sydney Horobur this morning…

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Four-Year-Old’s Alertness Prevented Drowning

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 3

An alarm by four-years-old Carmel Brooker, of Bella-st., Horseshoe Bend, yesterday prevented the drowning of her six-years-old mate. Norma Webb, of the same street, who had fallen into the Hunter River…

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Two Accidents From One Streel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 3

Two men from Mount Pleasure st., Maitland, were injured in sa[?] accidents this morning Ron Wells, so , of [?]…

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Clipper Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 3

At Bellbird colliery yesterday Ray Hall, 18 a clipper, of Bridge-street, Cessnock, suffered slight concussion when…

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Miner Injured Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 3

Waler Jones, 45, of Allendale street, Kearsley, a miner employed at Abermain No. 2 co[?]ary, received an injury to his right…

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Telarah Family Injured in Smash

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 3

Five members of a Telarah family were Injured— one seriously—in a collision between a car and a semitrailer on the New…

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Aberdeen News Two Jockeys Seriously Injured at Aberdeen Races. Three Horses Fall in Improvers' Handicap

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 4

Three of the seven starters fell in the Improvers' Handicap, as a result of which jockeys R. Snowden and W. Bell were admitted to Brentwood…

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