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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Items of News Three Persons Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 2

The Wagga District Ambulance conveyed three persons to the Wagga Base Hospital on Saturday as a result of accidents. Stray dogs…

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70 Saved From Sea in Sydney Man Drowned at Bronte

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A man was drowned and his would-be rescuer nearly exhausted when the public tampered with rescue lines at…

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Fire Engine Crashes on Way to Fire Six Injured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: One of the fire engines going to a fire at Leichhardt this afternoon collided with a telegraph pole, throwing the…

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Driving Under The Influence Man Fined £10 Sequel To Fatal Car Accident

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court last Thursday Robert William Brown, shearer, of Warren, was charged with driving in a a manner dangerous to the public and also with driving under the influence of liquor on the Adelong Road near…

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Amana Injured at Flemington

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Ai- ] though Amaaa was injured In Che fall at Flemlngton to-day, he win start In the Mister Clark Stakes at…

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Lieut. Neville Faulks, From Wallendbeen Killed Last Tuesday in Flying Accident Off the N.S.W. Coast

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 2

At 7 o'clock on Tuesday night last the sad news came that Sub-Lieut. Neville Stanley Faulks. R.A.N.V.R. of H.M.S. Implacable, aged 22 years 8…

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Lad's Nasty Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 2

Boyd Stone, aged 13 years, of Uranquinty who at present resides in Wagga met with a nasty accident late yesterday afternoon. He…

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Boy Accidentally Shoots Brother Dead

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY. Thursday: Allan Bernard Paul James, aged 13 years, of Laughtendale, was accidentally shot dead by Phillip George James…

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Collision in Baylis Street

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

A motor car was extensively damaged about the hood and a lady passenger received cuts to her leg and arm when a motor car and a…

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Six Injured in Car Smash

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Six people were injured, one critically, when two cars collided at Bobbin Head Road. Edgecliff to-day. Donald…

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Bitumen Burns Three Men Injured At Burrinjuck

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

Three men suffered injury at Burrinjuck last Wednesday morning from burns, and were admitted to hospital…

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Wagga Boy Shot in Head Pea Rifle Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 1

With a pea rifle bullet embedded in his head, Edward William Day, aged 18 years, of 15 Yathong street, Wagga,…

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Man Killed When Helping In Street Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

PERTH, Sunday: While two men were attending to a man who had been knocked down by a taxi in a street in North Fremantle on…

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Wallendbeen Resident Killed in Flying Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 1

Sub–Lieut, Neville Stanley Faulks RANVR of HMS Implacable, aged 22 years, lost his life in a flying accident off the coast of NSW on…

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Floods in Victoria Seven Believed Drowned

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 2

Seven people are believed to have lost their lives and others are endangered by floods which cover the western district of Victoria and…

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Victorian Floods Five Drowned; Many Rescued

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Devastation and loss of life have accompanied the worst floods in the history of the Western district of Victoria. It appears…

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Record Rains in Tasmania Washaway Causes Rail Fatality

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

LAUNCESTON, Monday: The heaviest rains on record have been experienced in the east coast of Tasmania. Precautions have been…

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Bitumen Burns Three Men Injured At Burrinjuck

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 4

Three men suffered injury at Burrinjuck on Wednesday morning last from burns and were admitted to hospital…

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Bitumen Copper Boiled Over Three Men Injured at Burrinjuck

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

Three men suffered injury at Burrinjuck from burns. Mr. J. Keys was boiling a copper containing bitumen and napthaline,…

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