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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

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Albury man seriously injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 1

A transport driver was seriously injured when a semi-trailer, loaded with sheep, overturned on the Culcairn road, near the Nine…

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’Plane Crash Was “Accidental”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 November 1953 · page 6

SAN FRANCISCO, Sun.: A Coroner’s jury has found that the crash of the British Commonwealth airliner in which 19…

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20 Seamen Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Mon. : About 20 Italian seamen are believed to have been killed today in a collision between the Italian…

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Two drowned ln boat capsize

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 November 1953 · page 12

COCOS, Tues.: Three men were rescued but two are missing presumed drowned, following the capsize of a sailing boat on the lagoon…

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Two youths drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wed: Two youths have been drowned during the past 24 hours. A 15-year-old youth was…

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Italian migrant drowned near Wagga

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 November 1953 · page 15

WAGGA, Wed.: The body of a 39-year-old Italian market gardener was taken from a lagoon about six miles from Wagga this…

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Six Injured Fighting Fire

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 10

BRISBANE, Thurs. “Six people were injured today in one of the fiercest fires experienced in Gladstone…

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Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 3

Robert, the 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Bruce Johnstone had the misfortune to be knocked down by a car when…

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“Machines cause more mine accidents”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thurs.: A witness told the Coal Industry Tribunal today that mechanisation of collieries had increased accidents…

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Woman Escapes Injury in Freak Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 1

Miss Edith Chesterman Chalmers. Smeaton Vale. Deniliquin, had a lucky escape from serious injury in a freak…

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Fatal Accident at Lawson Syphon

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 1

When a man was struck on the back of the head by a falling plank at the Lawson Syphon on Wednesday…

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Wednesday’s Court Accident in Edwardes Street

The Pastoral Times · Friday 20 November 1953 · page 2

Brian J. Daly, of the Railway Hotel was fined £5 with 12 costs in default 12 days imprisonment with ha[?] labor, on a…

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Seaman Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 November 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 31-year-old seaman was drowned at Williamstown today when he fell from the ship he was painting into…

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Guard for injured scientist

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 16

SYDNEY. Sun.: A scientist who was injured when a rocket exploded at Woomera rocket range on September 29…

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River Fatality Feared at Carrathool

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 November 1953 · page 2

Police are searching the river country near Carrathool for 18 months' old Jennifer Carver, who disappeared from her home, "The…

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Fatality at Lawson Syphon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 November 1953 · page 1

A man was killed at the Lawson Syphon, near Deniliquin this week when he was struck on the head by a piece of wood…

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Two fined: collision sequel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 November 1953 · page 5

A Sydney manager, Frederick Ernest Althouse, was convicted on two charges arising out of a collision in front of Wodonga…

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In Wodonga Court Yesterday Army W.O. fined: bar on licence: accident sequel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 November 1953 · page 5

An Army warrant officer had admitted he panicked after a road accident in which a man was knocked over, and kept on going, according to police evidence in the Wodonga Court yesterday…

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Shooting accident at Bungowannah

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 November 1953 · page 2

Mr John William Hatt Cook, well-known grazier of “Hillgrove” Bungowannah, met his death under tragic circumstances…

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Boy's Death Accidental

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 December 1953 · page 2

The Moulamein District Coroner, Mr. G. B. Culrose, held an inquest into the death of Garry Peter Burdett, aged seven years,…

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