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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

481 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 25

Car Overturns After Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 2

Ronald Mortimer Firminger. of cnr. Kiewa and Poole Streets, Albury, stepped out unhurt after the car in which he was travelling,…

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Man Bleeds to Death After a Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sunday: William James Taylor, 28, Palmer st, Ramsgate, bled to death in a few minutes after a collision between…

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Four S.E.C. Employes Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 6

Four employes of the SEC at Mt. Beauty were injured on Saturday night when the utility in which they were riding got out…

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A Freak Storm Hits Sydney ; Boy Is Drowned Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 July 1950 · page 1

Sydney was lashed by a freak storm to-day, which disrupted traffic and communications, and caused damage estimated at…

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Bodies of Drowned Boy, Two Men, Not Yet Recovered

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police have not yet recovered the bodies of a boy drowned at Banks town, an elderly man drowned at…

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Figured in Fatal Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 1

Police and civilians, using hacksaws and breakdown crane, had to work for three hours on Saturday night to free an injured man who had been trapped beside his dead companion in the wrecked cabin of this semi-trailer, which…

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Husband Sees Wife Killed in Street Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 7

Before the horrified eyes of her husband a young: woman who had come to Albury from Yackandandah walked into the…

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Two Men May Be Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 10

SYDNEY, Fri.: Two men seen clinging to an overturned launch today are missing in the ocean off Cronulla Beach…

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Injured Kiewa Player

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 9

Injured shortly after the start of the third quarter of the Kiewa-Tawonga football match at Kiewa on Saturday, G. Crockett (Kiewa), is being carried off by W. McDonald (left) and C. Robb. On the extreme…

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Cow Killed in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 2

A cow owned by Mr. W. Moulder, of Wodonga Flats, was killed on the Albury-Wodonga Road about 5.45 p.m. yesterday when it…

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Tarantula Causes Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 2

When a utility overturned on an embankment on the Oxley Flats Road, Mrs. E. A. Webster, 69, Ovens Street, Wangaratta, suffered a bad…

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Man Drowned, Another Missing

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.: One man has been drowned and another missing believed drowned in the flooded south west…

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Did Not Say Nurses Were Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 4

Hereunder are comments by the journalist whose report Mr Nolan has criticised: The “Mail” has not said that…

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Million Sheep May Die From Starvation or be Drowned SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 3

Despite intensified efforts to provide fodder for sheep and stock in the flooded northwest of NSW, it is feared that more than one million of the two million sheep in the area will…

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For the Motorist Road Accident Campaign

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 12

“The N.R.M.A. has appealed to the Minister for Transport (Mr. She[?]) to act vigorously and at once in a new plan for…

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Girl Collapses After Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 2

Albury Ambulance was called at 4.45 p.m. yesterday to render first aid to Miss Bonnie Briggs, 19, who fainted when the Chevrolet utility…

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Baby Drowned in Flooded Creek

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 3

MACKAY, Wed: A 20 months old baby girl, Maureen Margaret Thompson, of Morugo, near Ginch Hatton, was drowned this…

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Death from Gunshot Wounds Fatal Accident Near Conargo

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 3

The body of Albert Percy Wallace, 41, was found on Sunday week at Boonoke' Station, about three miles from Conargo. A discharged…

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Migrant Killed in Motor Cycle Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 11

A New Australian was killed instantly on the Bonegilla side of Bandiana last evening in a mysterious motor cycle…

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Six Killed in Freak Freak Railway Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 13

LIMA (Peru),Thurs.: Six persons were killed, and 11 were injured in a freak railway accident neat Cuzco yesterday…

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