Kurri Bicycle Accidents
Frank Muirhead, 27, of Stanford Merthyr, fell while competing in the Kurri Kurri Bicycle Club's road race on Saturday afternoon. He was admitted to the…
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Accidents, 1939
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Week-end Accidents
Harry Griffin, 20, of Foster-street, Cessnock, was thrown from a sulky on Saturday afternoon. He was admitted to the Cessnock Hospital with a dislocated right…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Accidents in Australia Double Rate in U.S.A.
Thanks to the widespread safety campaign in the United States, fatalities in which motor vehicles were involved during 1938 showed a decline of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Accidents Injury To Fingers
Noel Smith, 17 of Denison Street. Carrington, had the middle and second fingers of his left hand [?] while at work at Morison and Bearby's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unconscious For 37 Days; Accident Victim SYDNEY
In an effort to save the life of a man who had now been unconscious for 37 days, doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital to-day will perform a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Speeding Up in Mines Responsible for Many Accidents" London, January 16. [?]
Scientific engineering, helping to speed up coalmining, is responsible for many serious accidents at the coal-face…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kurri-road Collision
For having driven a motor-car in a negligent manner on the Kurri Kurri road on December 4. Robert Arthur Williams of Dowling-road, Paddington, was fined £4…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To-day's Accidents Motor Cyclist Injured
Leo Prattle, 23, of Weorden-road near Clarencetown, was taken to-day to the Dungog Hospital by the Maitland Ambulance with head injuries…
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Neville Pascoe, 19, of High-street, West Muitland, fell from a bicycle in High-street yesterday morning, when attempting to avoid a collision with a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy of Seven Drowned in Water Hole
A search for fish in a waterhole near Morpeth Cemetery was the cause of Donald Trevor Beggs, aged 7, being drowned on January 24, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Men Injured Car Overturns on Pacific Highway
Two men were injured, one seriously, when a car overturned on the Pacific Highway, near Catherine Hill Bay, yesterday afternoon…
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Malcolm Warren, 12, of Warner's Bay, had his right forearm broken when he fell near his home. Lake Macquarie Ambulance took him to Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MAITLAND—KURRI—CESSNOCK West Maitland Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Sequel to Motor Accident
Robert V. Compton, 42, pleaded "Guilty" at the West Maitland Court yesterday to a charge of having driven a motor-car while under the influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Moree Man Acquitted of Slaying Charge Following Accident Moree
After a brief retirement, a jury at the Moree Quarter Sessions found Tom Cross not guilty of the charge of having feloniously slain Honor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Injured in Collision
When a motor-cycle and motor-car collided near Clare cetown yesterday Leo Trappell, 23, of Woerden-road, Clarence town, received severe lacerations to the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Three Mine Workers Injured
Alfred Skyrm, 36, of Cumberland-street, Cessnock, a miner employed at Aberdare Central colliery, was struck by a fall of coal yesterday, and received…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motor Collision At Adamstown: Damages Claimed
A claim for damages arising out of a collision between a car and a motor cycle and sidecar on Brunker-road. Adamstown. on July 9. 1938. was made…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Leven Killed in French Naval Collision Paris
Eleven were killed and 14 injured in a collision at sea in which the cruiser George Leygules almost cut the destroyer…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle Woman Injured in Smash Grafton
Grafton ambulance waggon, racing to the old of three persons who were Injured in a cur smash at Cangar, 50 miles from Grafton, skidded and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MAITLAND—KURRI—CESSNOCK West Maitland Action Commended Residents and Ambulance Drowning at Morpeth
The prompt action of three Morpeth residents-Errol Weston, Milton Weston, and Patrick McDonuell—and of the Maitland Ambulance Brogade, when Trevor…
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