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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Schoolgirl Injured

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 2

A schoolgirl, Sandra Bent, of 71 Baylis Street, received a probable fracture of her lower left arm when she fell from her…

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Shocking Accident Near Grenfell Farmer Loses His Left Hand

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 1

Mr George Holland, of "Good" Hope" between Grenfell and Goolagong, met with a bad accident last week by which he lost his left…

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Judge Tells Injured Girl to Take Holiday

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: After being awarded £750 damages by consent in the Supreme Court today. Raema Jean Browrt 19…

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Shot in Lung Rifle Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1

Mr. Colin Terry, accountant at the Boorowa branch of the Bank of N.S.W. had the misfortune to be shot through the…

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Local Items Youth Injured

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 2

Maurice Cheney, 16, of 194 Edward Street, received a confused wound to his forehead, a lacerated mouth, abrasions to…

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No Berlin Leave for U.S. TROOPS Sequel to Planes' Collision

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 1

BERLIN, Tuesday (A.A.P.): The Frankfurt correspondent of the American Associated Press today reported that the United States military authorities had banned American forces from spending leave in Berlin…

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Shooting Accident Near Yass

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 1

Had it not been for a two-shilling piece and a penny in his pocket, a man would probably haye had his thigh bone…

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“Jessop’s Cutting Is a Veritable Death Trap” Sequel to Accident on Hume Highway

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 5

In the Gundagai Court yesterday, Percy H. Bellchambers, a Melbourne business man, pleaded to a charge of negligent…

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Burrowa Man Shot in Lung Accident With Rifle When Getting Through Fence

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 5

Mr Colin Terry accountant at the Burrowa branch of the Bank of NSW had the misfortune to be shot through the lung on Saturday…

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Ashbridge Resident Drowned at Port Lincoln (S.a.)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 3

The deep sympathy of district resident has been extended to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Fay and family, of Ashbridge on their sad loss of a son…

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Car and Utility in Collision

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 2

No one was injured when a car and a utility truck collided in Hampden Avenue, Wagga, yesterday afternoon. The car was…

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Trams Collide in Melbourne 16 Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Six-tween people were injured when two crowded city-bound tams, collided in Elizabeth street this…

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Collision with Cow Farmer's Arm Lacerated

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 3

Mr. F. H. Brown, of Farm 853, Stanbridge, received lacerations to his right arm when a car that he was driving on Saturday evening,…

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Serious Burning Accident Explosion of Petrol

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 2

Mr. J. C. Watts, a fencing contractor, of Yanco, met with a serious burning accident on Saturday evening, when the petrol with which he…

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Helen Keller in Accident

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Helen Keller, world famous blind authoress, narrowly escaped injury this morning when the car…

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Coolamon Man Killed in Accident

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 1
Also in The Gundagai Independent

A Coolamon mall contractor was killed, his three-year-old son critically injured, and his wife seriously injured when the…

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Coolamon Man Killed in Accident

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

A Coolamon mail contractor was killed, his three-year-old son critically injured, and his wife seriously injured when the motor lorry he was…

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Tragic Accident Motor Lorry Overturns Mr. Vincent White Killed

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

On Wednesday at about 6 p.m., a motor-lorry, returning from Wagga and driven by Mr. Joseph Vincent White, who was accompanied by his…

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Second Death in Coolamon Accident

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 2

Michael White. aged tall years, died in the Wagga Easel Hospital yesterday as a rfl Injuries he received in a Motor…

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