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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Items of News Accident Victims Improving

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1948 · page 2

Mrs Margaret Slater, of Bandiana who had her skull fractured last Saturday week when the utility in which die and her husband…

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Chinese Gardener in Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 2

James Goon, Chinese market gardener, was involved in a collision on Hume Highway, near the old Halfway, yesterday…

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Hundreds Homeless in Eire Cattle and Horses Drowned in Floods!

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1948 · page 7

DUBLIN, Tues: Hundreds of people were rendered homeless and hundreds of cattle and horses were drowned when river banks…

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Items of News Plane Accident at Corryong

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 December 1948 · page 2

An Albury pilot, Mr Bert Seaton, and a companion escaped injury in a plane crash at Corryong on Sunday. Mr Seaton was on a…

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Ten on Lugger Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 3

DARWIN, Wed: It is now considered certain that 10 members of the crew of the pearling Inger La Grange lost their lives…

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Bus Hits Tree; Driver Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 1

What could have been a very serious accident occurred on the Albury-Wagga road about one mile from Henty…

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Mulwala Man's Accidental Death

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 3

Jack Drown, of Mulwala who received concussion when he was thrown from a horse on Sunday evening last, died in Yarranwonga District…

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Airmen Were Accidentally Killed

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 12

SYDNEY, Thurs. : Two decorated RAAF pilots were accidentally killed when the plane they were flying crashed near S[?]hofields on…

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Items of News Boy Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 December 1948 · page 2

When he fell off his cycle at the comer of Schubach and Ran sts yesterday, Lennie Briggs, 7 years, of Schubach st, sustained…

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Kneecap Fractured in Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 December 1948 · page 14

A motor cyclist, E. Smyth, of Rand, while riding along Deniliquin rd, Corowa, on Thursday, rain into an electric light pole. he…

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Injured at [?]

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 2

Gerald Carter, a lad living at the Border Service Station in Wodonga Place, suffered laceration to the head when he struck it on…

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Student Teacher Drowned Tragedy at Wagga

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 1

WAGGA, Sun.: Mervyn Gray, 18-year-old first year student at Wagga Teachers’ College, disappeared while…

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Items of News Steer Rider Injured at Wodonga

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 2

William Dwyer, aged 26, of South st, Wodonga, suffered a lacerated forehead and bruised arm when he was thrown and kicked on…

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Scene of Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 1

Scene of the crash on the road to Table Top, six miles [?] Albury, in which an [?] sergeant was killed and…

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Drowning Victim’s Body Recovered

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 11

WAGGA, Tuesday; Gelignite charges used to-day and yesterday in an effort to bring the body of an 18-year-old student…

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Father and Son Seriously Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 1

A MAN and his young son were seriously injured in a collision between a truck and a [?]ar about 20 feet from the Bethanga Bridge, on the Victorian side, yesterday morning. Four others were injured…

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Spirit Of Progress In Amazing Mishap Two Wheels Leave Line Was Travelling At 60 m.p.h.; No One Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 December 1948 · page 1

HURTLING along at 60 miles an night, on the run from Melbourne to Albury last night Australia’s most famous train, the Spirit of Progress, threw the two front engine wheels off the line, tore on for half…

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Two Men Injured in Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 December 1948 · page 2

Two men are in Albury hospital as the result of accidents on Saturday. Mr Frank Wilson, of Burrumbuttock, suffered an…

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Three Wangaratta People Injured Car Accident at Indigo

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 December 1948 · page 3

Three Wangaratta people were injured in a car accident at Indigo about 6 p.m.. on Saturday. They are: Edward Morris,…

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Apprentice Injured When Mount Falls

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Monday—Ron Grierly, a probationary apprentice, suffered concussion and abrasions to the face when English Maid, which he was…

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