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Central Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Not Enough Court Days

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 7

It is "obvious" to Mr O. J. Lake, SM, that there are not enough Woy Woy court days…

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Army officer's Court plea

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 5

An Army lieutenant was fined £3 for having crossed centre lines, in Gosford Court last week, after it…

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Magistrate's Warning in Assault Case

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 3

Mr. O. J. Lake, SM, said in Gosford Court on Friday, that, if perjury had been committed in a case he was hearing, he had "every intention" of charging the offenders…

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Theft from hotel

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 3

Mr J. L. Daven yesterday referred to a case in the Woy Woy Court on Thursday in which a Umina defendant…

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Police promotions

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

Three Gosford police constables. Rex Rienecker, B. J. Sawers. and nick Box, have been prompted to…

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Charged with Assaulting Boy

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 11

A 24-year-old man will appear at Wyong Children's Court today, on a charge of having assaulted a…

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Police caution parents

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

Gosford police today advised parents to caution children about meetings with plausible strangers…

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Veteran defendant in court

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 15 April 1954 · page 5

A man with a record of 51 charges against him was sentenced to two months' Jail for having insufficient…

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Tennis court wanted

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1

A tennis court is urgently sought by Terrigal CWA Younger Set. The set has the players,…

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Cafe scene results in court action

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 7 May 1954 · page 3

Mr. C. W. English, SM, fined men from Gosford, Woy Woy, Raymond Terrace und Lisarow, on…

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Man gaoled for theft

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 4

A labourer was sentenced in Gosford court on Friday to six months hard labour for stealing a bap of…

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Police said driver, wife both under the influence

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 7

Const. Donald McKenzie (Gosford) told Gosford Court yesterday that Lindsay Louis Dillon, 40, a,…

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Court House sees lights and shadows of human life

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 3

A dirty smudge marks page 702 in the swearing-in Bible at Gosford courthouse. Hundreds of witnesses have held the Bible at that place. not knowing that on the same page is this…

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Heavy list Of court Cases

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 1

Gosford Court of Petty Sessions has a heavy volume of business. At yesterday's siting Mr. G. W. English, SM…

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Gosford man sent to gaol

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 8

Judge Prior, in Newcastle Quarter Sessions, sentenced two men charged in the Wangi gravel conspiracy…

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Enthusiastic lying in the court, says SM

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 9

In the 15 differing stories told by the 15 witnesses in a cut before the court there had been…

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All police watch the highways

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 29 June 1954 · page 1

Gosford police, who control a very difficult stretch of highway from Calga to Wyong, have been…

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Police Raid Club

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 4

The Police Vice Squad from Newcastle raided the Central Coast League Club on Sunday night…

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Magistrate may soon he stationed at Gosford

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

A Police Magistrate may soon be stationed at Gosford. At present the visiting Magistrate lives at…

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Police told of licensing breach in N.T.

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 8

An application by Joseph Sidney Kelly for the transfer of the licence of the Woy Woy Hotel, from…

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