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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Two Men Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Fri.: Two men were drowned in v Queensland: today. They are Ian Dickie, 19, of…

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Three women are drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 12

SYDNEY, Fri.: Three women were drowned in boating mishaps in N.S.W. today. Two lost their lives when a…

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Man Falls From Launch, Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 24 year-old Traralgon man drowned today when he fell from a motor, launch at Lakes…

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200 Die in Christmas Accidents in America

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 3

HEW YORK, Fri.: Nearly 200 people hove been killed in the United States during Christmas holiday period. At midnight, the total count stood at 193,…

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Perth's fine holiday accident record

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 12

PERTH,. Fri.: There has been no road fatality in the Perth metropolitan area over the Christmas holiday period…

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Accident free day yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 6

Albury and district centres had a free day of accidents yesterday. Police officers throughout the…

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Woman Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY, Sun.: Police fear there is little hope of finding alive a 71-year-old women missing from a Terrigal waterside cottage since…

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20 fishermen believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 4

BREMERHAVEN, Sun.: Twenty German fishermen are feared lost with their trawler, the 487-ton Ebeling, which has been missing,…

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Youth killed trying to save sister from drowning

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sun.: A 17-year-old youth was killed when he attempted to save his be by sister from drowning in McIntyre Brook, at Karara, 30 miles west of Warwick, yesterday afternoon…

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Two young boys drowned whilst playing on beaches near Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: Two young boys were drowned at metropolitan beaches today. They were TONI RELF, 5, of Normanhurst, and GREGORY JAMES HOYE, 3, of Lawson. Relf was drowned in Curl…

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Accident-free Weekend

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 2

Up until late last night Albury District Ambulance reported that they had had an accident-free weekend. However, ambulances…

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Brother, sister drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.: While bathing in the Torrens River at Torrensville today, Rosemary Anderson, 10 years, and…

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Two men killed, three children drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 10

PERTH, Mon.: TWO men were killed in country road accidents and three children were drowned in the country in Western…

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Nurse uses bosun’s chair to reach injured man

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A bosun’s choir was used today to swing a nursing sister on to a ship at a Yarraville wharf and lower her to the bottom of a 40 feet hold so that she could administer morphia to a man…

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Look Out for Junior. Accidents to Children Should Be Prevented

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 December 1952 · page 4

Even among children between the ages of the and four years accidents are the commonest cause of death…

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