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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Baby Escapes Drowning

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 2

The 14 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Farlow of the Irrigation Area was rescued from an irrigation channel…

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Little Boy Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Ronald Sydney Behrens. aged 3½years, was drowned in a channel near his home at Leitchville last night…

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Cup Rider Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 15

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Jockey P. Glennon, who has been engaged for Welloch in the VRC Derby and Double Blank In the Melbourne…

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Tocumwal Man Fined £15/10/— Four Charges Follo Accidents

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 8

Johan Norman Morgan of [?], was [?] total £15/10[?] at the Court of [?] Sessions this week on the…

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Fell into lagoon in stupor and drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 25 October 1952 · page 3

WAGGA, Fri.: The Coroner returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest into the death of Ulric Joseph Hunt, 66, of…

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Eight Drowned at the Week-end in Three States

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 1

Eight people were downed at the week-end—three in N.S.W., three in Tasmania and two in Victoria. Three were children. A five-year-old boy and…

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Theft after accident is alleged

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 2

Three men were arrested at Tarcutta, 30 miles from Wagga, yesterday morning, and later charged at Wagga police station…

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Help for Injured Boy

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 October 1952 · page 2

An appeal has been launched to obtain sufficient funds to purchase an artificial leg for a boy who was seriously injured a few…

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Corowa boy fatally injured in road accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 October 1952 · page 1

An eight-year-old school child was knocked down and fatally injured in Albury road, Corowa, yesterday afternoon. He was Edgar Raymond…

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Wodalla on injured list

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 October 1952 · page 19

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Derby hope Wodalla joined the casualty list today. He was lame after galloping at Flemington and…

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Schoolboy Fatally Injured Accident in Honour Avenue

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 October 1952 · page 3

The third fatal accident in Honour Avenue within the past twelve months occurred on Tuesday afternoon last…

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Two soldiers injured in jeep crash

Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 October 1952 · page 2

Twosoldiers were injured, one seriously, when an Array jeep plunged down a 15ft embankment on the Albury-Wodonga…

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£31,800 damages awarded injured man highest ever

Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 October 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY Thurs.: The highest damages for on industrial accident in Australia £31,800—was awarded to o crippled builder’s laborer by a Supreme Court jury today…

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Injured Soldiers’ Condition Good

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 November 1952 · page 2

Condition of two soldiers injured on Thursday night when a jeep crashed through the guide fence on the Albury-Wodonga rd,…

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Injured man’s 10 days’ ordeal in underground tank

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 November 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Fri.: A 39-year-old shearer, Peter Heywood, who was rescued yesterday after having lain helpless with a…

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Accidental finding on 112 train deaths

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 November 1952 · page 9

LONDON, Fri.: A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death at the conclusion of an inquest yesterday…

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11 airmen believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 16

OKINAWA, Son.: An American B-29 Superfortress, returning to its Okinawa base from a bombing raid in North Korea,…

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Motor Cycle Car in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 2

A motor cycle and a car were involved in a collision in Dean st. on Saturday afternoon at 5.5 o’clock. The car was being…

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Former star runner badly injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 12

SYDNEY, Sun,: Former star sprinter Clarrie Hayes was seriously injured when a panel van, in which he was a passenger…

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Three vehicles in a freak accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 2

Three motor vehicles were involved in a freak accident on the Wodonga-Albury road shortly before 11 o’clock on…

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