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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 40 of 40

"Gang" of Boys Questioned by Police

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 2

Grafton police inquiries into thefts at the P.D.S. store last week-end have uncovered the existence of a "gang" of…

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Unusual Case Before Coff's Valuation Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR.—Finality was reached in a case held over from a previous court when, at the Shire Valuation Appeals…

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Batik Bill Hearing By Full Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—The Full Court to-morrow will be invoked to grant an early hearing of the bank nationalisation…

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Tennis Court Controllers

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 5

Court controllers at the City Courts at the week-end are: Saturday, C Eslake and K. Holman; Sunday, R Beasley and R. O'Connor…

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An Appeal Against Prices Court Fine

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 3

Mr. R. C. Bray has indicated that he has lodged an appeal against fines imposed by the special Prices Court at Coffs recently…

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Court Refuses To Fix Date For Bank Case

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—An application by the Commonwealth to fix the date for the hearing of the challenge to the Bank Nationalisation Act was rejected by the…

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Father On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 December 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.—Evidence taken to-day from the 19-year-old daughter of a man, the father of nine children, who is alleged…

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Police Comment On Bridge Cyclists

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 December 1947 · page 3

Local Government Ordinance 34 allows two bicycle riders to travel abreast in thoroughfares, including the Clarence River…

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Youths Arrested For Assault Near Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Two Sydney youths were arrested yesterday after a Sydney man had been found battered by the…

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Priests Charged With Espionage

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Yugo-Slav authorities are now accusing priests of "espionage." Quoting the Belgrade…

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Police "Arrest" Baby Girl

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 December 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Police on Saturday night "arrested" a 10 months old baby girl and charged her for the second time with being a neglected child. The child had previously been arrested last month when found outside a Prahran hotel eating…

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Unusual Action Adopted In Theft Charge

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 4

A stealing charge against a Grafton man was withdrawn by the police in unusual circumstances at the Grafton Court of…

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Police Promotions

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—Only 60 country men are included in a list of 181 Police Department promotions announced to-day, the…

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Second Gaol Term For Illegal Use Of Same Vehicle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 4

John David Dunn, 22, labourer, a coloured man, pleaded guilty in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions on Monday to a…

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GREYHOUNDS. Appeal Court Held At Casino

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 5

At Casino at the week-end the Northern Rivers District Greyhound Racing Appeals Board had before it appeals by L. Bambury…

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Polish Translator Sentenced To Gaol

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 December 1947 · page 1

WARSAY, Sun. (A.A.P.)—A Polish military tribunal sentenced Maria Marinowska, former translator at the British Embassy, to…

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Police Seek Owners

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 5

Detective A. G. Clark, of the Grafton police sub-district, said yesterday that, he was anxious to find the owners of the following…

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Grafton Police Relax With Boating, Bowls & Wood-Work

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 5

WHEN I first told a couple of Grafton policemen that I wanted to write an article on policemen's hobbies, they thought I was pulling their legs. "Hobbies?" questioned one…

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Trunk Murder Case Police Allege Plan To Kill Husband

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.—A man charged with the murder of Mrs. Annie Kathleen Sturrock in the Central Court to-day is alleged by police to have tried to induce…

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Polish Jew Charged With Gold Offence

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 December 1947 · page 1

PERTH, Tues.—A Polish Jew, Israel Erts Kinstler, 43, engineer, appeared in Perth Court to-day, charged with sending gold out of…

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