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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Syphon Employee Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 1

Watson Grant, an employee at Lawson syohon works, was admitted to Deniliquin Hospital yesterday suffering with injuries to the head Giant fell…

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First Brigade Injured Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

Owing to an injury to the fetlock of his off foreleg, the Adelaide jumper, First Brigade, has been withdrawn from the Grand National Hurdle and…

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Gored by Bull Man Severely Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 1

Ainsley Grimison, of Geolgowi, was very seriously injured when gored by bull at Craigie Lea, Goolgowi, the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs…

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Youth Killed in Collision with Tram Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 6

John MacDonald, aged 17, of Elizabeth street. South Yarra, was killed this morning when the bicycle he was riding along Chopel street, Prahran…

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Culcairn Grazier Fined Sequel to an Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 6

Frank Smith [?], grasier, of “Dunoon.” Culcairn pleaded guilty in Albury police Court yesterday to having driven a motor…

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Wants Railway Crossing Accidents Prevented Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 5

In an effort to prevent railway level crossing accidents the Australian Railways Union, is asking that warning bells be installed at crossings and…

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Road Accidents Pile Up Again

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 2

Seven persons are known to have been killed and scores injured in road accidents in New South Wales during last week-end. These are…

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Rider and Mare in Strange Accident Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 June 1941 · page 5

When galloping after the last race at Ascot this afternoon. Lady Neith jumped the fence at the back of the course and fell into the concrete culvert, six…

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Are Road Smashes Accidents ?

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 4

Casualty lists for the first four months of this year show that people are still being killed on the roads of the state at the rate of 31 a month…

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PLANE [?] Drowned Hobart

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 4

William Henry Guy. aged 32. why was the first Tasmanian [?] to fly own plane [?] killed. His body [?]…

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Soldier Killed in Road Accident Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 June 1941 · page 4

One soldier was killed and eight others were injured early to-day when a military lorry overturned near Rutherford camp…

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Collision in Albury

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 June 1941 · page 3

While driving Mr. Don. Castles car in Albury on Saturday with a trailer attached containing three horses--Vines, Red Balkan and Wee Balkan…

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Young Couple Drowned in Floods ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 June 1941 · page 2

The bodies of Miss Eva May Horner, 27, and her fiance. Lloyd Siegert. 24, f[?]rmer, swept from a buckboard near [?] yesterday, were recovered…

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Army Truck Overturns One Man Killed, Nine Injured MAITLAND

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 June 1941 · page 4

When an army truck was returning to the Greta camp from Maitland it ran off the road and Overturned. A soldier, Keith Anderson Lucock,…

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26 A.I.F. Men Injured in Road Smash Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 4

Twenty-six members of the A.l.F. [?] injured when an army truck in which they were travelling skidded and overturned two miles on tho Melbourne side of Seymount…

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Bell Ringer Injured

Albury Banner Wodonga Express and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 8

SYDNEY.—Roy Livette, aged 32, years, of Gordon, was injured in an unusual accident at St. Phillip's' Church, City. He was tolling a bell…

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Three Cyclists Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 4

Three girl cyclists collided with a car on the Howlong road about 100 yards from Day street about 7 a.m. yesterday; but the car had almost…

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Cause of Double Road Fatality Unsolved Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 2

An inquest to-day failed to reveal the cause of a motor car fatality in which Constable William James Austin. Stuart street, Malvern, and Gwenyeth…

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Are Road Smashes Accidents?

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 14 June 1941 · page 1

Casualty lists for the first four months of the year show that people are still being killed on the roads of the State at the rate of 31 a month…

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Accident at Wahgunyah

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 2

In spite of the regulations governing the use of motor head lamps, in order to reduce the menace of dazzling lights, where other motorists are…

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