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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Minor Car Accidents on

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 22 March 1949 · page 2

Two minor collisions between motor vehicles and a “near miss” occurred in the main streets on Saturday…

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Forestry Officer Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 1

Rutherglen police and residents yesterday recovered the body of a 45-year-old forestry officer from Murphy’s creek…

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Forestry Officer Drowned

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 1

Rutherglen police and residents on Wednesday recovered the body of a 45-year-old forestry officer from Murphy's Creek near…

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Police Officers in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 7

Police Superintendent F. G. Parmenter, of Wagga, who arrived in Albury on Tuesday morning for an inspection of…

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Argument Over Bottles Of Beer Man Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A man was fatally injured in an hotel bar on ,arch 3 because trouble arose over two bottles of beer, it…

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Items of News Linesman Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 March 1949 · page 2

Colin Crawford, linesman, attached to the Beechworth staff of the State Electricity Commission, suffered shock, internal injuries, a…

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Railway Worker Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 2

Arailway worker, Harold Schultz, of Charles street, Albuiy, was treated at the District Hospital yesterday afternoon for a…

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Two Men Charged After Triple Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: Following a triple car smash on the Western Highway near Penrith today, in which two men were…

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Our Motor Cyclists Killed Six Others Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four people were killed, and six were seriously injured in motor cycle accidents over the week-end…

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Collision

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

A collision occurred at the later section of Sanger street and Deniliquin road on Friday afternoon last between a new Vanguard car driven…

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Pillion Rider Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Mon.; James Greenwood, 22, Olive st. East Malvern, sustained fatal injuries after being run over by a motor…

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Injured Man Still in Critical. Condition

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 2

Report from the Albury District Hospital late last night stated that there had been no change in the condition of William Harold Brady,…

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Fishermen Drowned When Boat Goes on Rocks

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 14

LONDON, Fri.: At daylight today the wrecked fishing boat Pioneer was found on the rocks off Hastings, with the bodies of…

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Verdicts of Accidental Death

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 5

WANGARATTA, Mon: Verdicts of accidental death were recorded by the district coroner (Mr Bell) at two inquests this afternoon…

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Man Shockingly and Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wed. : A young father of two children who was shockingly injured, when he was spun around on a shaft at…

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Car-truck Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 April 1949 · page 2

A car which had a blow-out on Hume Weir road last evening struct the wheel of a passing lorry and collided with a tree. The…

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42 School Girls Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 April 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Fri.: Forty-two schoolgirls, a boy and a man were drowned and 34 other people are reported missing…

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Woman Car Driver Injured Accident Near Jindera

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 April 1949 · page 2

A woman was badly injured yesterday afternoon near Jindera when a sports model car she was driving turned a…

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Bushman Critically Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 April 1949 · page 3

Whilst felling timber at Glen Wills on Friday a man was critically injured when a large sapling hit him…

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Woman Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 April 1949 · page 2

When she fell from a cycle she was riding near the Central Hotel, Albury. yesterday afternoon, Miss M. Jenkins, who is staying at the…

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