To High Court Rulling Sought re Petrol Tax
The Dorrigo Shire Council has decided to request the Shires' Association of NSW to contest through the High Court the action…
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Courts & crime, 1948
608 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 31
Salesman Charged With Murder
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Harry Turnbull Shoebridge (39), salesman, was charged at the Central Court to-day with the…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.--A sequel to the finding of a man's bloodcovered body in a dingy alley late last night was the appearance in…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. -- forty four-year-old First Class Police Constable John Proctor Bird, was committed for trial at the…
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MELBOURNE. Thurs.--Peggy Francis White (31) Was charged [?] City Court to-day with having murdered her husband,…
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JERUSALEM, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Three British police constables have been sentenced to ten years and seven years' imprisonment--…
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William Stewart-Carter (23), clerk, a New Zealander, appeared before Mr. E. I. Cocks. S.M„ at Grafton Court of Petty…
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BRISBANE, Thurs.--A well-known Communist and Federal Councillor of the A.E.U., Edward Joseph Rowe, was to-day committed to prison for an indefinite period. The order was made by the Full Bench of the Industrial Court after Rowe had been found…
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COOTAMUNDRA, Thurs.--The body of Robert Condron (46), who died from arsenic poisoning on March 2, was…
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SPEAKERS at a farewell yesterday to Mr. H. T. Breakell, Clerk of Petty Sessions, at Grafton, who has been transferred on promotion to Albury, praised his courtesy and efficiency. The function was held at the…
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MACLEAN.--At the Maclean Court cases of straying stock were dealt with. All defendants were filled £210 and 8 costs…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--For the first time in Australia, Sydney police over the Easter holidays used a plane to observe traffic on roads…
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SYDNEY. Tues.--Former Australian champion middleweight boxer. Jack Haines (40), was charged at Paddington Court…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--District Judge Richmond Keech has ordered the United Mineworkers' leader, John L. Lewis, to explain to the court why he yesterday ignored a subpoena served on him under the Taft-Hartley Labour Act…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. --Nineteen-year-old John Kenneth Donnelly, appeared in the City Court to-day charged with the murder…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Charged with the murder of Isabel Theresa Latham, at Randwick, on March 24, Thelma Margaret McNamara…
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SYDNEY, Wed.-- Alleged to have operated a racket in house construction, Ronald Payne, 67, was sentenced to five years and…
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WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P;). --Forced by a Federal Court,order to to tastify the United Mineworkers' President John L. Lewis, told a…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Police were apparently trying to make up a ease against Harry Turnbuil Shoebridge, after he had been…
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Grafton is suffering from an epidemic of bicycle stealing. Detective A. G. Clark stated yesterday that five cases had been…
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