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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Youth in strange drowning

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: A 16 year old boy was unable to save his companion who collapsed and drowned with his head over the…

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Wodonga rover injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 7

Rover John Marks, playing his second game for Wodonga, suffered a broken collarbone in the match against Myrtleford and…

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Items of news Drivers Unhurt in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

Two motorists were unhurt when their cars collided on the Howlong-Albury road at 8.45 p.m. on Saturday A Car driven by Allan…

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Fought with injured hand

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 15

SYDNEY, Mon.: Don (“Bronco”) Johnson (11/8¼), who lost on points to Carlo Marchini (11/7¾) at Sydney Stadium…

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Young Man Injured in Fall From Mill

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 2

Latest advice from Melbourne is that Mr. Ronald G. Hehphill (22) who was badly injured in a fall from a windmill at Nyangay…

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Tallangatta man injured in road smash rushed to a Melbourne hospital

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 1

A Tallangatta man was yesterday rushed to Melbourne by ambulance, suffering from injuries juries received in a road smash earlier in the day on the Murray Valley Highway, four miles from…

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Accident Victim Still Serious

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 16

This is the car in which 28-year-old Hume Weir canteen worker, James Hannah, formerly of Bandiana, was seriously injured at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday in a car collision on Hume Weir rd. about five miles from Albury Albury Base Hospital said last night his condition was still serious…

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Breasley Injured in Fall

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 23

LONDON, Tues.: The condition of the Australian jockey Arthur Breasiey, who was injured when his mount Sayonara slipped at…

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Two men drowned when tangled in fishing nets

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wed.: The bodies of two farmers were found tangled in their own fishing nets in the Brisbane River, near Moore, today. The dead men were…

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Carpenter Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 2

Forty-four year old carpenter Bohden Tuziak of Howlong road West Albury was injured when knocked over by a small car as…

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Deniliquin Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 1

Robin Maver, 15, of Heriott St., North Deniliquin fell from a horse he was exercising on a track on North common last week…

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Dog Owner Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 May 1954 · page 3

Albury greyhound owner, Mr Alan Klinberg, of 381 Rau st., was injured on Saturday when leading his dog, Groon’s Last, to…

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Little boy drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY. Mon.: A two-year-old boy was drowned in the Toongabbie Creek at Northmead today He was Christopher Hession, of…

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Sobbing mother clung to injured son

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 5

PERTH, Tues.: Emotionally distraught and sobbing, an Italian mother refused to let ambulancemen touch her seven year…

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Dog’s drowning leads to the suspension of council employe after investigation

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 11

GOSFORD, Thurs.: The drowning of a kelpie dog near Terrigal with a 50lb. stone around its neck today resulted in an investigation by the Department of Local Government…

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Seven Injured in Bus-train Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Fri.: Seven people when injured when a passenger bus and a goods train collided at Coolangatta this afternoon…

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Man Drowned in Quarry

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 16

The body of a retired Rutherglen man was found floating in a water-filled quarry on Thursday night…

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Injured Radio Man Awarded £16,000 Damages

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 24

SYDNEY, Fri.: Radio programme Paul Seymour Jacklin, 39, was awarded more than £16,000 in the Supreme Court today as compensation for injuries he received in a road…

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Three Street Accidents at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 2

Three accidents occurred in Albury yesterday. Margaret Kathleen Hanel, of Mate street, who was driving a…

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Four Die Ix Vic. Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Sun.: PETER JOHN KILBY, 18, of Lakes Entrance, was killed about 8 o’clock last night when the…

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