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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Bowling Green Theft

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 4

BALLINA.--Police are investigating the theft of £8 from a till in Ballina bowling club house. The theft occurred on…

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Gaol And Fine For Former Economist

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Fri. (AAP).--William Remington (33), former Government economist, was yesterday sentenced to five…

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Six Men Charged On Dock Strike

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).--Six men arrested in a Scotland Yard raid on a public house at Stephney, the London dock area, were charged last night with conspiring to incite dockers to…

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Police Certificates To Grafton CWA

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 6

Gratfon branch of the C.W.A. has received a Certificate of Appreciation from the N.S.W. Police Department, for services rendered in co-operation with the police during the disastrous June flood…

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Police Attack On N.Q. Gambling

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 5

BRISBANE.--Police have punched a full-scale attack against gambling rackets in North Queensland…

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Death Sentence For Murder

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 1

HOBART, Sun.--In the Hobart Criminal Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Green sentenced Walter Robert' Gillies (31), truck driver,…

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Police Seek Gang Over "Dud Tenner"

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday--Sydney detectives are searching for a New South Wales counterfeiting gang which they believe is responsible for the forged £10 note which turned up in Brisbane last…

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Comic Court Tops Cup Charts

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Comic Court, Australia's No. 1 racehorse, became favourite for the Sydney Cup after his brilliant defeat of Chicquita and the Doncaster candidate Achilles, in the C. F…

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Sheep Stealing

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 5

The N.S.W. President of the Liberal Party, Mr. Lyle Moore, yesterday urged the State Government to al ot more police to…

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Police Tribute To Water Brigade

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 3

A letter from the Police Department together with a certificate of thanks were received by the Grafton…

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Missing Money Sought By Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 3

Sergt. J. O'Connor and Constable C. H. Swan, of South Grafton police, are inquiring into the disappearance of…

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Commissioner of Police Thanks Flood Helpers

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 2

In a letter to "The Advocate" the Commissioner of Police Mr. James Scott, writes: "The year 1950 was a disastrous one throughout the country districts of the State, so far as floods are concerned, and the police have been…

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Full Court Order Restrains Judge

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--The State Full Court to-day made an order restraining Judge Berne, of the District Court, from dealing further with the Burns' sedition appeal…

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Union Winding Up Ordered By Court

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day ordered the winding up of the N.S.W. division of the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia…

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Milk Carter Arrested On Murder Charge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--Detectives early to-day arrested a 22-year-old man while he was delivering milk in Canley Vale, and charged him with the murder of Richard Thomas Pope, 30, at his home…

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Two Japanese To Hang For Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 1

LOS NEGROS. Wed. (AAP-Reuter).--The Australian War Crimes Court to-day sentenced former rear-admiral,…

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Court Reinstates Union Leader

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed. -- The Arbiration Court to-day made an order for the reinstatement…

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Police Allege Threats Made To Witness

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.--Police alleged in the Supreme Court to-day that a woman charged with a £1000 jewel…

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Glenreagh Court of Petty Sessions

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 7

GLENREAGH.--At the Coramba Court of Petty Sessions. Percy Bruce Jones whose las[?] address was Glenreagh, failee…

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Playboy Will Clash With Comic Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thurs.-- Playboy is a definite runner in Saturday's St George Stakes, in which he will clash with Comic Court…

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