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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Schoolboy Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 8

Bob Bartlett, 12, of Garden st, Albury, received stitches in his [?] knee as a result of a fall at the CBC yesterday. He was…

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Fatal Accident at Tocumwal

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 2

A fatal accident in which Mr. Roderick Charles Elliott, of Tocumwal, was killed, occurred on Geraki Station last week…

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Eleven Die in Air Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

MIAMI (Florida), Fri.: At least 11 persons were killed last night when a Navy DC3 aircraft and a small private…

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Boy Believed Accidentally Hanged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3

WAGGA, Friday : A 14-year-old schoolboy was found hanged in the cords of a hammock this afternoon…

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Eight People Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.: When a trawler, which was on a pleasure cruise off the French coast, was swamped today, eight of thirteen…

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Little Boy Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun: Andrew Charles Osborne, aged 5, to 125 Shaftsbury Parade, Thornbury, was found…

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Footballer Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 2

As a result of injuries received in a football match at Rand on Saturday, John Hehir, 22, of Rand, was admitted to the Albury…

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British Storm Death Roll Grows 12 Persons Known To Be Drowned, LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 3

AT least three more persons were drowned, bringing the known death roll to 12; a number of yachts round the south coast are missing from their moorings, while many others are…

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Chiltern Had Many Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 August 1948 · page 6

With many injured players, Chiltern have been finding it hard to filed a team, but hope to have F. Peake (knee injury) and Ron…

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Albury Girl in Wagga Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 August 1948 · page 2

Miss Anne Ringwood, of the Wagga “Daily Advertiser,” and formerly of Albury, who suffered slight injury when a utility truck…

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Drowned When Ice Breaks

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 August 1948 · page 11

HOBART, Monday : Charles Henry Scoble, an engineer with the Antarctic research expedition on Macquarie Island, was…

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Two Killed in Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 August 1948 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Two pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents tonight. WILLIAM Cavanagh an…

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Accident Upsets Candidate’s Itinerary Mr. Fairbairn Has to Cancel Meetings

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 August 1948 · page 3

Because an employe on his property at Holbrook has suffered a critical injury, Mr David Fairbairn, Liberal Party…

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Woomargama Man Dies Leg Was Amputated After Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 2

Clifford Williams, 20, of Woomargama, whose leg was amputated at Albury Hospital following a car accident on Tuesday…

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Cobra Causes Panic; 23 Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.: The Associated Press correspondent in Madras reports that 24 people in a boat on the Cauvery River…

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Four Injured Returning From Funeral

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE. Fri.—Four people in a car returning from a funeral at Springvale were injured in a head-on collision with another…

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Items of News Boy Injured in Explosion

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 August 1948 · page 2

Brian Ellis, 13-year-old son of Mr and Mrs H. Ellis, of Townsend st. is in the Albury District Hospital with injuries to his e[?]es as…

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Spectacular Blaze Destroys Transport Fire Follows Collision With Car

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 3

WHEN a semi-trailer transport caught fire on Hume Highway, near Ettamogah, shortly before 6 p.m. on Saturday, damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused, while the…

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One Dead: 82 [?] Four Buses Involved Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Sun.; Fire [?]dents during heavy rain [?] one death and injury [?] people yesterday. In four [?]…

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Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 2

Gordon, second son of Mr. and Mrs Fred Hawkins, of the New Crown Hotel, was the victim of a rather painful accident yesterday afternoon, as…

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