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Blue Mountains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

6 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Month's Gaol For Not Putting Out a Fire

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 1

In the Katoomba Court on August 24 a tramp was sent to gaol for one month for failing to extinguish a fire he had…

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Improvements to the Court House

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1948 · page 8

For many years people have had to put up with the discomfort of trying weather conditions which have swept the…

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Basketball Court

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1948 · page 2

The Works Committee of the Blue Mountains City Council is to inspect two sites which have been suggested as suitable for…

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Police for Leura

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 29 October 1948 · page 1

Leura Progress Association will ask the officer in charge of Katoomba police to arrange for more police protection for…

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Basketball Court At Blackheath

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 2

Following inspections of the terraced portion of Whitley Park and an area of Jubilee Park, Blackheath, which had been…

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Police Recover Goods

The Blue Mountains Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1948 · page 3

On receiving: certain information, Detectives J. Fisher and T. Dudeney, visited a furnished cottage in Oatley Avenue…

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