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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Accidental Death Finding On Colliery Tragedy

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 11

A finding of accidental death was recorded by the Kurri District Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pickering) yesterday when he inquired into the death of William Edward Edwards (50), a miner of Main-rd.,…

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2 Injured in Car Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

Two men were slightly injured when two cars collided at the corner of Stewart-avenue and Dumaresq-street, Hamilton, yesterday…

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Collision Fatal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—A 50-year-old married man, John Kenneth Lee, of Norval-street, Auburn, was fatally injured when the bicycle…

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Miner Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 3

Struck by a fall of stone in Borehill colliery, New Lambton, yesterday, Ken Thompson, 24, of South Wallsend, suffered a…

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Boy Drowned In Waterhole At Lithgow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1

LITHGOW, Friday.—Half an hour after he disappeared beneath the surface of a waterhole, Peter Franks, 14, was admitted to…

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Woman, Boy Drowned; Caught In Undertow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—An 11-year-old boy and 35-year-old married woman were drowned at a beach near Portsea to-day…

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Divers Find Submarine Sunk in Collision Race Against Time To Save 58 Entombed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 January 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 13. A.A.P.—At dawn to-day two navy divers located the British submarine, Truculant, which sank in the Thames Estnary last night after a collision with the Swedish tanker, Divina…

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2 Men Injured When Surf Boat Swamped

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 2

Two crew members suffered minor injuries when Newcastle surf boat overturned on two occasions in a heavy sea at Newcastle Beach…

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Bolting Horse Hurt In Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY.—A horse attached to a milkcart bolted a quarter of a mile down Newcastle-rd., Rose Bay, early today, collided…

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Slight Improvement In Injured Rider

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday.—The condition of apprentice jockey Stan Taylor, 20, was reported by St. Vincent's Hospital authorities…

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Mineworker Injured by Falling Slab

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

Struck by a falling slab in Lambton Central mine yesterday, Eric Roddom, 34, of Bailey-street, Adamstown, suffered an injury to…

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Accident Victim Died From Injuries

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

John Fernance, 19, of Wyong, a railway ported whose right leg was severed when he was knocked down by a goods train…

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3 Mineworkers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

Hugh Watkins, 49, of Darwin-street, Cessnock, shiftman at Abermain No. 2 colliery, had the first joint of the first, second and third…

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Couple Die 3 Days After Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—A young married couple injured in a motor-cycle accident on Saturday died to-day within two hours of each…

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Girl Dies After Road Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A seven-year-old girl was fatally injured to-night while playing with other children in Trafalgar-street,…

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Man Dead; 3 Feared Drowned Cyclone's Toll; Floods Forecast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

Three men are feared drowned in a flooded creek northern New South Wales and an Ipswich postman was electrocuted as a result of the intense cyclonic rainstorm…

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Double Decker Bus, Car Collide Nine Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Nine people were injured, one seriously, when a double-decker bus and a car collided to-night on a short…

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Cyclists Injured In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

A motor-cyclist and his pillion rider were injured late yesterday afternoon when the cycle and a car collided at the corner of Lawson…

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Cessnock Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

John Burke (26), of Northave., Cessnock, a clipper at Aberdare Extended Colliery had a piece of wire embedded in his…

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Fourth Officer Blamed For Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The fourth officer of the Nieuw Holland was held responsible by the Marine Court of Inquiry to-day…

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