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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Drowning Near Griffith

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 1

A former Albury man was drowned last Monday. on an irrigation property on the Warrawidgee farming settlement near…

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The Passing Scene Care, Caution and Control Needed to Stem High Rate of Road Accidents

The Observer · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 6

The passing scene of highway history in N.S.W. is not a pleasant one. It is littered with the accumulated wreckage of 40 years of accidents. It is strewn with the bodies of more than 10,000 killed. Among its population…

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Items of News Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 15

A Melbourne rider, J. Clarkson, received a probable broken right toe, when his motorcycle crashed into a fence at the Howlong…

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24 Injured in Oil Tanks Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 4

TOKIO, Sunday : Twenty-four people were injured and damage estimated at £1,500,000 was caused by a spectacular fire which…

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Us Golf Champion Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1954 · page 15

SYDNEY, Mon.: American open golf champion Ed Furgol, who is suffering from an farm injury, said today he expected in be out of bed…

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Three Were Injured in This Crash

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 October 1954 · page 16

Car in which three persons were injured when It was inbelved in a collision with a baker’ panel van, owned by…

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Two fishermen believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Wed: Two Queenscliff fisherman are believed to have lost their lives when their shark boat, Robert…

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Insurance Inspector Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 2

A 35-year-old insurance inspector Robert Longmore of 335 Sydney street Albury is in a serious condition in Albury Hospital…

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Oroner Thanks Police, Decides — Hon Drowning Was Accidental

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 5

POLICE were publicly thanked by the Dis[?]oroner for their efforts in searching for the body of John McCluggage at the Lawson Syp[?]ks earlier this month…

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Driver Was Not Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 13

This car was badly damaged in an accident in Prune lane, Lavington, on Wednesday. driver,, Sidney Herbert Patmore, of North Bondi, was uninjured. Car crashed into a telephone pole and brought down the lines, which took five hours to repair…

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Man Badly Injured in Crashed Car

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 2

Driver of this car was seriously injured in an accident in the Urana road near the Jindera School at 1.40 p.m. mi Wednesday. He is Robert Longmare, an insurance inspector, of Sydney street, Albury. He was admitted to hospital with a compound fracture of the right thigh, broken right arm, and face and hand abrasions…

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Corowa Constable Is Killed, Serge Badly Injured Car overturns on road al Hopefield

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 1

The constable-driver of a police car was killed and his passenger was seriously injured al Hopefield last evening when their vehicle over turned. The driver, Constable Edward Henry Dilks, of Corowa, was killed…

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Unusual Accident

The Observer · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 1

On Saturday morning last Mr. Pat Heffernan, of the staff of the Henty Meat Service, met with a painful accident,…

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Sg. M. Whelan In Corowa Accident

The Pastoral Times · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 1

Former Deniliquin police prosecutor, Sgt. 1st class M. Corowa Whelan was injured in an accident near Corowa…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1954 · page 2

A 22-year-old New Australian motor cyclist was severely injured in a crash at the “S” bend at the Bowser railway crossing,…

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Accident Victim Satisfactory

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 October 1954 · page 2

The condition of Robert Long-more, 335 Sydney road, Albury, insurance inspector, whose car crashed at Jindera on Wednesday,…

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Man killed in head-on collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: One man was killed and another critically injured in a head on collision between two cars near Singleton today…

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One killed, 37 injured in prison riot

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 16

JEFFERSON CITY (Missouri), Sun.: The third riot in a month erupted at the Missouri State Prison yesterday…

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Sgt. Whelan Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 2

Former police prosecutor for this district, Sgt. 1st Class, M. Whelan, was injured in an accident near Corowa last week. He…

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Bodies recovered of drowned men

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wed.: The bodies of four men drowned at Bobbin Head last night, when their car plunged into a creek, were…

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