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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Man Drowned in Reservoir

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: Police lowered a boat 40 feet into Dubbo water supply reservoir today to recover the body of a drowned council…

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Thousands of Sheep Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Fri.: Falling flood water in south western Queensland today revealed carcasses of thousands of sheep. Stock losses in…

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Trucks in Head-on Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 2

Two motor trucks met head-on on a narrow bridge five miles north of Culcairn on the Culcairn-Henty Road, early yesterday morning…

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Dean Street Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 2

When two cars collided in Dean st., Albury, yesterday afternoon no one was injured. Vehicles were being driven by Vincent…

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Migrant’s Second Accident Was Fatal

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 1

A New Australian, who had been in Albury hospital for several months following a motor cycle accident, figured…

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Figured in Fatal Accident Migrant Killed in Cycle-bus Smash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 1

An Irish migrant, Felix Michael Fitzgerald, aged 31 years, who had been only six months in Australia, was fatally injured in Wodonga Place, Albury, on Saturday afternoon, when a motor…

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Station Hand Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.: A station hand, aged 49, was drowned in the Bell River at Mumbil, near Wellington this afternoon…

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Wangaratta-albury “Head-on” Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 12

Action of Wangaratta Turf Club in deciding to race in opposition to Albury Diggers’ Race Club’s annul fixture on Caulfield Cup day, October 21, was criticised by Albury Racing Club…

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Accidental Death Underwood Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 2

How Albert James Underwood, of Hay, disappeared during a duck shooting expedition at Carrathool on July 16, and was later found in a lagoon…

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“Quite Indifferent to Dangers” Man Accidentally Shot, Coroner Finds

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 1

EVIDENCE that deceased was a man of unusual strength, without fear, and quite indifferent to danger, was given by Constable N Hartley at the inquest on Saturday into the death of Albert Percy Wallace…

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Road Accident Toll

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 13

Stronger action by the Government is urgently necessary if the road accident position is to improve, in the opinion of the…

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Henty Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 2

Mr and Mrs W. O. Jones, of Henty, had remarkable escapes from injury when a large semitrailer stock float collided with…

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Three Miners Hurt in Accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Wed:: Three miners were admitted to hospital seriously hurt and a number of others treated for minor…

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Man Drowned Near Hillston

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 2

Flood waters in the Lachlan River are responsible for the death of an old-age pensioner near Hillston. About a fortnight ago a levee bank was…

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Man Killed in Truck Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Thrown from a truck in which he was a passenger after it had been struck from the rear by a heavily laden…

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Henty Man Seriously Injured

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 1

Whilst Mr. Geo. Pratt, well-known Henty identity, was sitting in a stationary car on the side of the road about a mile from Yerong Creek on…

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Motor Trucks in Head-on Collision

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 1

Wednesday's accident was the third of a series of collisions on the Wagga-Albury Road during the past week. Two motor trucks met head-on on a…

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Missing Motor Cycle Damaged. in Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 August 1950 · page 2

A motor cycle was removed from in front of the Masonic Hall, Kiewa Street, at 12.15 o’clock yesterday morning and was later…

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No One Injured in Plane’s Crash Landing

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 August 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: A fire tender and. an ambulance stood by today as an Auster aircraft crash landed at Bankstown aerodrome…

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Young Man and Woman Riding Motor Cycle Killed in Collision MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 August 1950 · page 3

A young man and a young woman were killed yesterday when the motor cycle they were riding collided with a car in Lake road, Albert Park. They were DESMOND…

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