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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Man drowned swimming in canal

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 October 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 28- year-old man was drowned in the Sale Canal yesterday while swimming…

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Level Crossing Fatality

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 2

An old identity of Barellan, Paddy O'Neill, aged 77, died in Leeton Hospital last week. He had been admitted to Leeton Hospital a…

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WALWA Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 12

Mrs V. Brindley fell at her home and sustained spinal injuries and is in hospital. When Mr Langton McHarg was…

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Three Boys Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues: Three boys were drowned in NSW today. Two perished while paddling in Iron Cove Bay, Rozelle, early…

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Road Accidents

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1951 · page 2

The New South Wales Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr Shoebridge, has forwarded a statement prepared from information furnished in police road…

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Starter Injured At Moulamein Races

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 October 1951 · page 1

Mr. Phillip White was brought to the Deniliquin Hospital by ambulance last Wednesday following an accident at…

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Three Cars in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 October 1951 · page 2

Three cars were involved in a collision at the corner of High and South sts., Wodonga, shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday. The…

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Two men drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY. Sun.: Two men were drowned while, swimming in Sydney this afternoon. An unidentified man. aged about…

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Drowned in water tank

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 3

WEST WYALONG, Sun.: A man found drowned in a 400 gallon water tank near West Wyalong last night has been identified as…

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Motor-cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 2

Clifton Gordon Chrisp, 20 years, of Lavington, received head injuries when he was thrown from his motor-cycle after it had…

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Two die in car-truck collision Smash Near Walbundrie

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 1

In one of the worst weekend accidents in Albury district for a long time, two people were killed and four…

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Police blitz cuts accidents on roads

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 October 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Weekend blitz by the police on traffic offenders has resulted in the lowest accident Tate for some months…

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[?] Accidentally Drowned in Bullatale Creek [?]Coroner Watkins Finds At Inquest

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 1

James Trent, or James Lawrence, as he was variously [?] was accidently [?] when he feel into…

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Fishermen Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 2

LAUNCESTON, Tues: Following the finding of wreckage and the sighting of a partly-sunken hull of a vessel near Eddystone…

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Four dead in road accidents MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 October 1951 · page 2

Four people were killed in road accidents during the week-end. Annie Susan Guest, 65, of East…

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Car, Van in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 2

A car driven by Thomas Henry Davies Jackson, Scotsburn st, Hawthorn, yesterday collided with a van owned by Maples, which…

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Seven Die in Harbor Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 12

BUFFALO (N.Y.), Tues.: At least seven men lost their lives and 20 were injured last night following a collision between a…

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Yarrowonga woman’s death accidental

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 8

When a motor car and a semitrailer collided head on near Woomargama early in the evening of August 18, Mrs Irene…

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Truck Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 2

Quite a gloom was cast over Balranald when it became known that Mr. Frank Moore, well known business man and popular…

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Surning Accident at Wahgunyah

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 November 1951 · page 1

Yesterday morning an employee of Coldon Timbers Wahgunyah, Charles Fry, of Rutherglen, aged about is, was…

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