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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

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Injured List New Boot for Tate

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 5

Gilligan, it is stated, will most likely not be able to bowl, or even take any further part in this match…

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Motor Cars Collide Five Persons Injured Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

Five persons were injured, two of whom were admitted to Parramatta Hospital, as the result of a head-on motor collision on the western road near…

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Steel Works Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

Herbert Ernest Maher, aged 42 years, foreman in the stockhouse at the Steel Works, and who lived in Hereford-street. Stockton, was fatally injured yesterday…

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Maitland District Aberdare Central Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 5

Mr. G. Brown, Coroner held an inquiry at the Cessnock Court House, yesterday, concerning the death of Leonard [?]lliott, a miner, who was fatally…

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Collision in Tube Second in 35 Years No Panic Passengers Shaken LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 1

A tube train from Hampstead collided with a stationary train in a tunnel between the Strand and Charing Cross station. The…

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Miner's Death Accident at Borehole

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 6

Thomas Brunton, miner, employed at Borehole colliery, who was accidentally scalded last week. died yesterday in the Wallsend hospital. The…

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Maitland Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 5

Clayton Mourilyan, a resident of East Maitland, had the first joint of the third finger of the left hand severed last night…

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Maitland District Aberdare Colliery Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 8

At the Cessnock Courthouse, yesterday. Mr. G. Brown, Coroner, held an inquiry into the death of Arthur Herbert Green, a shiftman, who died in the…

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Driver Blamed Railway Board's Finding Recent Sydney Accident Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 6

The chief responsibility for the accident which occurred in Sydney railway yard on January 14 has been placed upon the shoulders of the driver of the…

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The Moving Picture Show Accidental Posies

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

Mr. Fitzpatrick's bill to protest wild flowers provides that anyone found in possession of a protected wild flower may be prosecuted, but it will…

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Injured Riders Maitland Speedway Benefit

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 7

The Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, which controls motor carnivals on the Maitland Speedway, recently held a benefit…

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Sydney Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 2

Sir,—I notice in this morning's issue of the "Newcastle Herald" that the committee of railway experts appointed to inquire into the cause of the recent…

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Fatal Accidents Two in Sydney. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 5

Two accidents, ending with fatal results, occurred to-day. Sydney George Ellis, aged 17, a conductor of a motor omnibus, living at…

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Horse Shies Cyclist Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 January 1925 · page 5

Through a horse in a cart shying at a train at Broadmeadow railway gates to-day, Mr. Boltord, 23, of Fassifern, was knocked from his bicycle,…

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Safety First Miners' Propaganda to Reduce Danger Sealed Workings Bringing Risk of Accident to Absolute Minimum

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 January 1925 · page 8

In 1024 It was Proved without any doubt that in the Newcastle and Maitland coalfields there was a greater number of accidents and fatalities than in any other year in the mining industry. So said Mr. James Iceton, district check inspector and president…

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Horse Fell Eider Painfully Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 6

Mr. J. Wheeler, of Branxton, was riding a horse at Branxton yesterday when the animal fell and rolled on him, dislocating several toes…

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Thrown From Machine Motor-Cyclist Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 6

Two severely lacerated lips resulted from an accident to C. Towers (20) this morning, while riding his motor cycle…

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Shooting Accident Bank Clerk Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 4

Charles Kingston Mansfield, aged 18 years, a clerk employed at the Hunter-street West, Newcastle, branch of the Bank of New South Wales, was…

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Severe Scalding Maitland Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 January 1925 · page 6

Miss Ada Managan, of 41 Victoria-street Horseshoo Bond, West Maitland, was severely scalded yesterday, through falling while carrying bolling…

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Double Drowning

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1925 · page 5

Two boys named Robert and Harold King, aged 16 and 10 years, respectively were drowned in the river at Kempsey on Sunday…

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