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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Two Kitted, Eight Injured in District Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 2

Two people died, four were seriously injured and four others were slightly injured as a result of weekend accidents in Albury and district…

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Nine Injured at Wagga

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 2

Nine people were injured, none seriously, in .. Wagga over the weekend in three road accidents. Two of the accidents occurred…

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10 Year-old Boy Saves Sister From Drowning

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 2

JOHN, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hanna, last Sunday saved his younger sister, Beverley, from drowning in an earth tank on the Hay Irrigation Area Mrs. Hanna informs us that on…

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Toddler Drowned in Sheep Trough Tallangatta

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 1

A 23 month-old boy was drowned in a sheep trough on his parents’ property at Mitta yesterday afternoon. He was VINCENT CARDWELL, son of Mr and Mrs Cyril…

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Accident Victims Still in Serious Condition

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 2

Albury District Hospital last evening reported the condition of William Palmer, 18 years, of Lavington, who was injured in a collision…

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28 Drowned in Iceland

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 2

REYKJAVIK (Iceland), Wed: Twenty-eight of the crew of the 7404-ton oil tanker Clam were drowned yesterday when the…

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Deniliquin's Motoring Accidents

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 3

Deniliquin last week had a series of motoring accidents. On Thursday a Jeep returning to Boonoke overturned, and one of the…

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Grandmother on Drowning Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Anna Mat[?]da Hoff, 60, alleged to have drowned her unmarried daughter’s newly-born baby in a drum of…

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Boy Drowned When Storm Hit Orange

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri When a violent thunderstorm swept Orange for an hour and a half today— A five-year-old boy was…

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Estonian Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: Police today recovered the body of an Estonian migrant from dam near Cobar. The migrant, Semko Cricajun,…

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Two Injured When Plane Nose-dives

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sun.: The pilot and passenger of a Tiger Moth plane which crashed on a beach one mile south of Brunswick Heads on the…

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Drowning Case Verdict of Suicide

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 4

AT a magisterial inquiry held last Tuesday afternoon into the death of Mrs. Mary Myrtle Copeland, whose body was retrieved from the Murrumbidgee River on 27th February, it was found that she had died on 25th February, by…

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Inquest Into Accident Death

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 2

Police said yesterday that an inquest would be held into the death at Albury Hospital on March 4 of Mrs. Lily Bell, aged 83, of…

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Migrant Drowned in Weir

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 1

A migrant was drowned in Hume Weir yesterday morning. He was Aleksander Pasiuk, 26, widower. He was Pole…

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Migrant Was Drowned Accidentally

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 10

Alexander Pasink, £6 year-old Polish migrant widower, drowned at Home Weir last Sunday, appeared to take a deep…

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Two Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 15

Two road accidents occurred in Albury yesterday. Douglas Pickett, 8, of Wilson st.. was slightly bruised when the…

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“Mad Mile” Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 2

A car and a bus were slightly damaged when they collided on Flanigan’s Creek bridge, on Hume Highway, between Albury and…

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Boy Drowned Fishing

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 8

TOWNSVILLE, Sun.: Guiseppe Tomaschio, 12, was drowned in the Ross River today when he slipped while fishing. Weight of the tackle…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.: In weekend accidents, Harker Steele, of Holston, was fatally injured when the bicycle he was riding skidded…

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Injured Man Spends Night on Road

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 2

Mr George William Vinge, of “Toonallook” Station, spent a night in agony on Saturday when he fell 12 feet into a creek after…

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