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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Wodonga man’s death accidental

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 6

A Wodonga man who was found dead in a bath three-parts full of hot water on June 16 had taken a fit in the bathroom earlier in the…

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Airmen killed by impact : not drowned

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Two young airmen whose Wirraway aircraft crashed into the sea within a few seconds of taking…

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Accident changed woman’s personality : given £2000

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A damages claim for £3500 by Mrs. Edna May Hodder, of Eubalong (N.S.W.), who said she suffered a complete change of personality as the result of injuries suffered in an accident on Winchelsea…

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Woman in accident seeks heavy damage

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Mon.: A woman whose baby was killed in [?] arms in a car accident as [?] was returning from her father…

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Two Killed in Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 14

SYDNEY, Wed: Two men were killed and two others were seriously injured in road accidents in Sydney tonight…

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Injured Playing Basketball

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 2

A 14-year-old, schoolgirl Dorothy Webb, of Albury High School, was taken to hospital by ambulance yesterday after being struck on…

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Neither Driver Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 2

When Mr Arthur B. Burdack, of Jindera, backed his car from the kerbway in front of Motor Spares, Dean st, early yesterday…

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Proposed Footway to Hospital Should Be Changed. Accident Should Have Convinced Council, Says Board Chairman

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 2

A REGENT accident in King George Avenue in which two women were injured when knocked down by a car, should have convinced the Municipal Council that a footway to the hospital should be constructed along…

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Junee Child Drowned in Sheep Dip

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 1

There was an appalling accident in Junee on Saturday week when a three-year-old boy Alan Leonard Hancock, was drowned…

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Four in Hospital After Road Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 July 1951 · page 2

A man and his wife and two children were taken to Hay District Hospital last night, following a car accident on the…

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Driver Was Hot Injured !

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 3

This thick swerved off the Murray Valley Highway nine miles on the Albury side of Rutherglen after the front tyre had blown out. It completely wrecked a utility parked on the side of the road and crashed into a tree. Driver, B…

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Fatal Level Crossing Accident Motor Cyclist Dies From Injuries

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 3

A fatal level crossing accident occurred at Jerilderie on Wednesday night of last week, when a young man, Edwin James Eddy…

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Murder attempt by drowning alleged

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE. Fri: Charged in the city court today with having attempted to murder Ernest Attersoll Hayes, of Albert Park,…

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Woman Drowned at Barbecue Party; Man Is Missing

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A woman was drowned and a man is missing, bettered drowned, in Jackson’s Creek at Wildwood. Both were members of a…

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Man and boy drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 2

LAUNCESTON, Mon.: A man and a three-year-old boy were drowned in the Tamar River today…

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Albury man badly injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 3

Marine dealer Stanley Albert (“Joe”) Price, 56, married, of Kiewa st, is critically ill in Albury Hospital suffering from a…

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30 Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

RANGOON, Wed.: Thirty people, including a number of women, were drowned when a boat with 35 persons on board capsized…

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Man drowned when wharf collapses

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed: A waterside worker was drowned and two others hurled into the water when a section of the…

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Corryong woman drowned in lagoon

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

The body of an elderly woman, Mrs Ethel Mildred Clark, 59, was recovered from a lagoon about two miles from…

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Level Crossing Accident Coroner's Inquiry

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 1

On Thursday last, Mr. M. Fenaughly, District Coroner, conducted an inquiry into the level crossing accident at Jerilderie, on 25th ult…

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