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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Two Injured In Cycle Capsize

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

Bert Dunscombe, 41, of Charles-street, Maitland, was admitted to Maitland Hospital last night unconscious…

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Back Injured By Mine Skip

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 6

William Bambach, 32, fitter, of Addison-road, Beresfield, struck by a skip at Kent colliery yesterday, injured his…

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3 Unusual Accidents At Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

Three men were injured in unusual accidents at Maitland yesterday. Ronald Hill, 28, of…

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Two Dead After Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 February 1952 · page 2

Archibald Hunter, 48, who Was injured at a Teralba sawmill, on Tuesday, died in Wallsend Hospital yesterday…

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Student Drowned At Aberdeen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 1

Paul Coates, 10, of Raymond Terrace, a pupil of St. Joseph's College, Aberdeen, was drowned in the Hunter…

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Gravel Lorry Used To Aid Injured Man

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 3

With a badly smashed leg and suffering great pain, a man was transported five miles in a gravel…

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Boy Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY.—Garry Thompson, 5, of Miller's Point, was drowned yesterday when he fell into the…

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Boy, 5, Drowned In Harbour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A 5-year-old boy was drowned in the harbour at Walsh Bay early to-night…

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Two Accidents At State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 4

William G. Allan, 26, of Bay View-street. Blackalls, winch driver at Awaba State Mine, was slightly burnt on…

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Three Injured In Cycle Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1952 · page 2

Terry Moran, 19, of Lang-street, Kurri Kurri, and John Chippendale, 18, of Hopetoun-street, Maitland, suffered…

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Three Injured By Falls From Horses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 3

Three men were admitted to Maitland Hospital yesterday and last night as a result of falls from horses…

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Cessnock Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 3

Robert Thompson (43), Rawson St., Aberdare. a wheeler employed at Aberdare Colliery, had a piece…

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Man Drowned In Rescue Bid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Jack Lionel Jarvis, 51, railway porter, was drowned trying to rescue a youth at Milang…

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Police Seek Injured Men

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

Police have not yet located two men they believe were injured when a stolen truck crashed 20…

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3 Injured When Car Overturns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 February 1952 · page 2

Three persons were slightly injured when a car overturned near Bob's Farm yesterday. They are—…

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Two Mineworkers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 6

William Findley, 54, of Millfield, loader hand at Stanford No. 2 Colliery, broke his right ankle in a fall yesterday…

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Woman Killed In Car Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — A woman was killed and her husband badly injured when their car skidded and collided…

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Injured Trotter May Race

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday. — The trainer-driver of the Sydney pacer First Again hopes to be able to start the horse at the…

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Accidents At Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 2

Charles Bailey, 26, of Main-rd., Neath. a shiftman at Bellbird Colliery, suffered injuries to his…

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"Money Gone" After Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 2

A Cessnock businessman said at the Cessnock Court today that when his car overturned in an accident…

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