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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Accidental Burning Of Wanganella Woman

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 4

The Deniliquin District Coroner gave a finding of accidental death, after holding an inquest at Deniliquin into the…

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Merriwagga Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 2

Mr. N. Phillips, of Howlong Stn, Carrathool, received a fractured skuil and fractured ribs in an accident at a gyymkhana at…

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Accident has court sequel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 8

Because police could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that the driver of a car which crashed on the Albury-Jindera road…

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Two Injured in Collision at Wodonga

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1952 · page 8

Two people were injured when a car and a taxi (above) collided yesterday at the corner of Hume and Lawrence sts., Wodonga. Those injured were Mrs Lilian Isobel LeFoe, Hume st.,…

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Man, child drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sun.: A five-year-old boy and a man were drowned in New South Wales during the weekend…

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Constable badly injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1952 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A police motor cyclist, Constable Ray Lowe, of Russell street, was injured yesterday when his machine…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1952 · page 2

Harold Davey, of Bundalong, was badly injured on Saturday, when motor cycle he was riding struck a post on the road between…

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Four men believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Four men are missing at Swan Bay, near Geelong, since this afternoon when…

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£4572 for Injured Mechanic

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, MOD.: A 35-year-old. mechanic was awarded £4572 damages by a Supreme Court jury today for injuries…

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“Accidents Time Loss High”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1952 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Man.: Time lost through factory accidents could be cut by half if employers operated an adequate medical…

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£5500 damages for injured cyclist

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1952 · page 1

BALLARAT, Tues.: A Ballarat Supreme Court jury to-day awarded Maxwell James Crawford, 22, of Skipton,…

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Injured by steer: Watwa man collapses and dies

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1952 · page 9

A Walwa man who was injured when a steer, which was injured in the bush fires, rushed him collapsed and died at a…

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“Accident-free day as tribute to King”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A suggestion that there should be an accidents-free day ill Australia as a tribute to the…

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Change in husband after accident forced wife to leave him, court told

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1952 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A Country Court judge today awarded £499 damages to a New Australian whose wife left him after road accident injuries changed him from a happy husband to an “unbearable, weeping,…

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Drowned in six inches of water

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 February 1952 · page 11

GOSFORD, Wed.: A 13-months-old baby girl was drowned in six inches of water in a drum in the back yard of her home in Woy…

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College Pupil Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 February 1952 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Sun.: Paul Coapes, 12, of St. Joseph’s College, Aberdeen, was drowned yesterday while swimming with…

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Man Injured at Weir

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 2

When a heavy shuttle dumper carrying gravel crashed into a bank at the Hume Weir yesterday, the driver was thrown out…

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£1800 for Man with Injured Spine

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: A man whose spine was injured when he was struck by a bag of wheat while working in the hold of a ship…

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Fingers Crushed in Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 2

Mr. Tom Thorpe, a grader driver with Murray Shire Council, last Monday sustained two badly crushed fingers when a…

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11 Drowned in Cutter Wreck

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1952 · page 10

SUVA, Tues.: Eleven Fijians are feared to have been drowned following the loss of the sailing cutter Tui Maloku in the Fijian…

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