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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Two Cars and Bus in Collision

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 2

Two cars and a bus were involved in the one collision at the intersection of Kincaid and Trail Streets early yesterday afternoon…

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Drowned Man’s Body Recovered From Burrinjuck

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 7

The body of Mr William James McAlister, who was reported missing from Burrinjuck about three months ago, was found on the…

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Utility Truck Overturns Accident on Wagga Road

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

When a utility truck overturned on the Wagga road last Saturday evening the driver, Mr. N. C. Williams…

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Double Drowning Tragedy at Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

Two small boys who lived next door to each other were drowned yesterday in the Wollundry Lagoon, near the Dunlop factory, at Wagga…

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Funeral of Junee Man Drowned at River

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

The funeral of the victim of the drowning fatality at the Murrumbidgee, Mr. Ralph Murphy, took place yesterday, the remains being interred…

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Two Boys, Next Door Neighbors, Drowned in Wollundry Lagoon

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

Two small boys who lived next door to each other were drowned yesterday in the Wollundry Lagoon, near the Dunlop factory. The boys were MAURICE HASTIE, 6, son of Mr. and…

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Funerals of Boys Drowned at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1948 · page 2

About five hundred, many of them children, attended the funeral services yesterday of the two seven-year-old boys who were drowned…

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Man Drowned After Attempt to Save Girl

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Sunday: Swept out with five other surfers, a young man was drowned today at Merewether Beach, Newcastle. His body…

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Man Drowned in River Above Wagga Beach

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

Two unsuccessful attempts were made to save the life of a man who was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga yesterday. The man was William Joseph Mulvihill, aged 25, an…

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Boys Drowned in Lagoon

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 3

Two small boys were drowned in Wollundry lagoon at Wagga on Thursday. The boys Maurice Hastie and Raymond Ashford,7, left home…

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Chemist Drowned in Farm Dam

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: Believed to have entered a dam for a swim too soon after a meal, Edgar Brotchis, 41, a Bendigo chemist,…

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Man Drowned Above Wagga Beach

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Two unsuccessful attempts were made to save the life of a man who was drowned in the Murrumbidgee at Wagga yesterday. He was William…

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Man Drowned When Waves Swamp Boat

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Lawrence Desmond Walsh, 23, single, of Ocean Parade. The Entrance, was drowned when a rowing boat…

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Scalding Accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Mr. Clarrie Marks, of Willow St., met with a scalding accident while working on night shift at the Leeton Cannery on Tuesday. Water…

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Serious Car Accident Near Gunning

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 2

While driving to Young to spend the holiday week-end with his relatives, Mr. Kenneth Batley's car left the road near Gunning at about midnight on…

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Shunters' Deaths Were Accidental

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 3

Two coronial inquiries were held in Junee when the coroner (Mr. J A. McKenzie), after hearing evidence from eye-witnesses, returned verdicts…

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Sequel to 1946 Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 2

An accident on the Barmedman Road on Saturday, September 18, 1946, when a jeep crashed into an electric light pole, and three men were…

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Gundagai Man’s Brother Mangled to Death Accident in City Wool Plant

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 5

Mr Sydney Taylor, aged 48, brother of Mr Roy Taylor, of Gundagai was mangled to “death in a wool scouring plant at Botany last week…

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Tragedy Follows Extraordinary Accident in Victoria Man Accidentally Pulled Himself Into River

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 1

An extraordinary accident which unfortunately ended in the death of the principal, occured in the Thompson River, near Heyfield,…

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Accidents

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 2

On Monday last two accidents occurred at the Lake. John Osmond (15 years) son of Mr. and Mrs."Dood" Osmond, was with…

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