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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Woman Killed, Four Injured in Collision

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A married woman was killed and four other people were injured, one critically, when a tram and car…

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Local Items Boy Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

An eight-year-old boy had his thigh pierced by a piece of furniture beading when playing at his home in Wagga yesterday…

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Motor Cyclist Hurt in Wagga Collision

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

A motor cyclist was admitted to Wagga Base Hospital with internal injuries and abrasions after a collision at Wagga on…

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Accident Victims Recovering at Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

Three accident vicitims were progressing, satisfactorily at the Wagga. Base Hospital yesterday. They were Fred Burke, of…

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Cootamundra Man Wounded in Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

A Cootamundra man was wounded by a 22 callbre bullet while hunting rabbits on New Year's Day…

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Accident Victims Recovering

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

Three accident victims were progressing satisfactorily at the Wagga Base Hospital yesterday. The were Fred Burke, of…

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Sailor Shockingly Injured Thrown From Motor Bike

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday — A young sailor was shockingly Injured today when the allegedly stolen motor cycle he wins riding…

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45 Dead and Many Injured in U.s. Tornadoes

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: Forty people were killed in tornadoes in Arkansas, Louisiana and Kansas yesterday, according to various sources, mostly from the Red Cross. Highest casualty list was in…

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150 Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Wednesday (A.A.A.-Reuter): One hundred and fifty passengers are feared to have been drowned when a…

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Three Men Believed Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Wed.: Three young men are believed to have drowned while on a fishing trip to a bay near Werribee today…

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Former Gundagai Residents Injured in Motor Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 1

Former Gundagai residents Messrs Bob Piper and Bill Ryan were injured in a motor accident last week, when a utility in which they were…

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Former Gundagai Priest Killed in New Guinea Rev. Fr. J. C. Glover Victim of Aircraft Accident

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 7

Well known Catholic priest, Rev Father John Glover, who for many years was stationed in Gundagai, was billed in an aircraft accident in New Guinea last Saturday. Only meagre details of the…

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Ten Injured in Sydney Tram Smashes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Ten people were taken to hospital following two accidents involving trams in Sydney today…

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Junee Lady Injured in Boom Gates Mishap, Two Fitters Hurt at Loco, Ammonia Affects Mechanics' Eyes

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

WEDNESDAY WAS "ACCIDENT DAY" IN JUNEE, WHEN A NORTH JUNEE LADY WAS INVOLVED IN A MISHAP AT THE BOOM GATES ON THE CENTRA CROSSING AND TWO FITTERS AT THE LOCOMOTIVE SHEDS…

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Adelong Man Killed in Motor Accident Truck Overturns Down Embankment

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

Adelong and Batlow folk were shocked with the news that Arthur Peter Cheetham, aged 60, of Adelong and lately employed by the Batlow Packing House, had been killed and four others injured when a motor truck containing seven people left the road…

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Lady Injured in Junee's Boom Gates

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

Mrs. C. H: Turner, of Prince street, was driving across Junee's central crossing at a time motorists experience difficulty…

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Fatal Fall From Truck Albury Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

Albury police are trying to locate two men who saw a man fall, from a truck at North Albury on Saturday…

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Four Hurt in Wagga Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 2

FOUR people were injured in accidents at Wagga during the weekend. None was seriously hurt…

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Utility Overturned In Collision

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

IN a collision between a car and a utility yesterday morning about eleven o'clock, at the intersection of Grevillia and…

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Lithuanian Injured at "Greenhills" Forestry

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

Jurgis Marcipukas, 42, a Lithuanian migrant, suffered injuries when he was struck by a falling tree at Greenhills Forestry, near Batlow, on…

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