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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Women in Hospital Binnaway Motor Collision

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 1

Mrs. Fred Easey, of Rampendates, Binnaway, is in the Binnaway Subsidiary Hospital following a motor car collision on…

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Couple Injured on Way to Visit Patient

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1950 · page 3

Mrs. Keith Lambert, of Cessnock, has a leg and ribs broken when a car in which she was riding with her husband was…

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Mail Contractor Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 2

The Nyngan-Danodong mail contractor, Mr. J. S. Field, was admitted to Nyngan District Hospital yesterday suffering…

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Mendooran Fatality Young Man Shot

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 15

A man was found at the property of Mr. Wallace Luckie, 20 miles from Mendooran on Friday with a bullet wound in his…

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Shooting Fatality at Mendooran Young Man Shot at "Blairgowrie"

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 1

After a search lasting two days, the body of a young man, Edward Robert Spicer, 21, was found on, Mr. Wallace Luckie's "Blairgowrie" property, Mendooran, on Friday last with a…

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Drivers' Fortunate Escapes in Motor Accidents

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 1

A young Wellington district man and a visitor from Sydney had lucky escapes from serious injury when the…

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Two Curra Creek Men Drowned in Bell River Flood at Wellington

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

A MAN was drowned and another man is believed to have been drowned whilst attempting to cross the flooded section of the Showground road at Wellington on Saturday night last. Police and civilians on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of John Spence (45), invalid pensioner, married, with a family, of Curra Creek…

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Men Drowned At Wellington WELLINGTON

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1

One of two men drowned in the flooded Bell River at Wellington on Saturday night was at first wrongly identified as his…

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Flood Fatality at Dunedoo. Dunedoo

The Wellington Times · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 1

A nine-year-old boy being taken home from school with other children was drowned when swept off a track which…

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Two Injured in Truck Crash

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1950 · page 1

When the ball Joint, connection of the steering control disconnected on Mr. Alfred Bailey Balley's on the Mitchell Highway,…

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Woman Hurt in Collision

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

A married woman was treated for shock, lacerations over the left eye and bruises to the left leg as a result of a…

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Buck Rogers, 25th Century, A.D. Purely an Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 4

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No Crimes or Accidents. Wellington's Quietest Easter for 20 Years

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

For the Wellington Police and the Ambulance Service, the Easter period was the quietest on record. For the…

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Two Men Hurt in Road Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 1

While walking on the bitumen to their camp on the western side of Trangle on Saturday evening. George stapies and W. Wootton were hit…

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"Sick" Cars Cause Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 3

Many vehicles involved in accidents and discomfort on the road are "sick", according to the N.R.M.A. The Association…

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Shooting Fatality Boy Charged with Murder

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 20 April 1950 · page 3

A 15 year old boy was charged with the murder of Roland Rosser aged 14 years at Gulgong Children’s Court…

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Fatal Accident Young Girl Killed in Fall From Lorry

The Western Herald · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 1

Whilst returning to town on Thursday afternoon from the aerodrome at North Bourke Shirley Dennis, aged 14-years,…

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Driver of Lorry Fined £5 Sequel To Collision With Cart

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 6

Norman Morris Power, of Early Street, Parramatta, whose motor lorry collided with a car on the Eulomogo Creek bridge…

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Court Charge Is Sequel to Car Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 2

A collision between two cars, on the Mitchell Highway about four miles from' Dubbo on February 4 had a sequel in the Dubbo C[?] of Petty Sessions when one of the drivers, A[?] McDonald…

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Shooting Fatality Boy Charged with Murder

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 27 April 1950 · page 4

A 15 years old boys was charged with the murder of Roland Rosser, aged 14 years, at the Gulgong Children's…

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