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Broken Hill & the Far West · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

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New Basic Wage Adopted Decision Of Federal Court on 10p.c. Cut Increases of 7d. TO 6/9 in Capitals Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 April 1934 · page 1

A slight general rise in the basic wage, varying in each State, was made by the Full Arbitration Court to-day in an involved judgment covering 44 foolscap sheets. The sharpest rise, 6/9 a week, will be at Perth…

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Italians Sentenced

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.— At the Cairns Circuit Court Guiseppe Busti and Guiseppe Pariel, who had proviously been found guilty of…

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Police Opposed to Arbitration Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The 'Police Association Conference rejected a motion providing that the police force be given access to the Arbitration…

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Attempted Murder; Woman Found Guilty

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.— At the Supreme Court yesterday Margaret Emily Bovey was found guilty of the attempted murder of George Smith…

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Police and Public

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— At the annual dinner of the Folleo Association the Chief Socretary (Mr. Chaffey) said that if the public studied…

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Court Sequel to Collision Woman Claims £2500 Damages

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 1

John Clague, who is being sued by Miss Millicent Armstrong for £2500 for damages and injuries sustained in a motor car collision, denied in the Supreme Court this afternoon that he had told Mrs. Armstrong that he was responsible for the accident or that he had told…

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Stranding of Trawler Court Censures Captain Suspension of Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 1

The Marled Court of Inquiry today suspended for three months from March 15 last the certificate of Knud Moller, mate of the stranded trawler…

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Naylor Case in Court Was He Properly Disqualified? SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 1

"Naylor has no more right to go on the course than the Emperor of Japan," declared Mr. Weston, K.C. (for the A.J.C.) in his address…

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Libra's Death Constable Charged His Second Trial Darwin

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 4

The second trial of Constable Gordon Cameron Stott, of the Northern Territory police, on charges arising out of incidents at the…

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Woman Claims £2500 Damages Court Sequel to Motor Collision

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 1

After having a summary of Mr. Justice Milner Stephen's summing up yesterday road to them this morning the jury in the case in which Millicent May Armstrong is claiming £2500 damages from John Clague for injuries arising out of a motor accident, deliberated all the…

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Quite at Ease Aborigines In Court Progress Slow Darwin

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 3

Natchelma, Mow, nnd Narkaya, the three Caledon Bay aborigines who surrendered to Mr. Fred Gray for the killing of five Japanese at Caledon…

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Breach of Promise? Woman Sues ExHusband Letters Read in Court (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.) PERTH

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 5

Mrs. Bertha Hubbard, who divorced Claude Hubbard on March 14, 1928, is suing her former husband for alleged…

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No Limit to Speed Explanation by Police Chief

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 1

"Any person who drives a motor vehicle upon, a public street, negligently, furiously, or recklessly, or at a speed or in a manner dangerous to…

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31 Arrests in Moscow Plot To Murder Stalin Alleged (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, April 18

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 4

A plot to assassinate Josef Stalin and other Bolshevik rulers is believed to lie behind the admission of the Ogpu (secret police) of the recent…

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Military Bands Union's Case in Court (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition). SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 4

"Sufficient evidence is not before the court to enable me to say which instrumentalists should be classed us principals, and I would ask the parties…

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Man Killed at Cadell Son Is Charged With Murder MORGAN

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 1

At 2.50 a.m. to-day Reginald Kenneth George Coxall, aged 23 years, of Cadell, manager for A. E. Ball and Co., of Cadell, was…

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Man Killed at Cadell Son Is Charged With Murder MORGAN

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 11

At 2.50 a.m. to-day Reginald Kenneth George Coxall, aged 23 years, of Cadell, manager for A. K. Hall and Co., of Cadell, was…

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Week to Pay Debt; Gaol As Alternative

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Giving Judgment in favor of Patterson, Laing and Bruce in the County Court to-day. Judge Moule ordered T. S. Vrysht…

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Week to Pay Debt; Gaol As Alternative

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Giving judgment in favor of Patterson, Laing and Bruce in the County Court to-day. Judge Moule ordered T. S. Vryshi…

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No Jurisdiction, Says Magistrate

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 3

Walter Smith, of Beryl-street, North 0Broken Hill, proceeded against W. G. Dannett,in the Small Debts Court this morning claiming £5/0/6…

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