Pickets and Police Clash Over Strike Placards
Barrier Miner · Monday 15 March 1948 · page 1
BRISANE.—Police drew batons and hit several pickets over the wrists when the latter refused to drop placards they were carrying in a march, today. One hundred police and 400 rail and wharf strikers took part in the brawl over placards…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys Arrested On Theft Charges
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 3
Following the breaking and entering of a butcher's shop over the week-end three young boys were apprehended by the police early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Force News
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 8
Constable Keith Norris arrived from Penrith last week to join thc Central Police Station staff This morning he was admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boys Before Court
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 8
Three boys appeared in the Children's Court this morning to answer a charge of having broken into a butcher's shop in North…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BusDriver Fined £ Court
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 1
George Edward Read, bus driver, was fined £20 with £6 costs by Mr. Bott, S.M., in the Police Court today ' on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mam Fails in Court Claim Against Wife
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 8
AN action by Thomas John Hatch against his wife claiming household goods valued at £13/10/ alle edly detained by her was dismissed by Mri Bott, S. I., in the Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Fail to Halt March of Strikers Batons Used To Capture Placard
Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 1
Brisbane, March 15.—Police armed with batons failed to halt a march by over four hundred strikers from the Shell Company's depot at Bowen Hills to the Trades Hall today. After violent clashes with strikers the police succeeded in removing large anti-Hanlon placards which many of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forty-One Japs Sentenced To Death For Murder Of American Airmen
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1
Tokio (AAP-Reuter). March 16—The Eighth Army Commission at Yokohama today sentenced to death 41 Japanese for murdering three American naval…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Sentenced On Charge Of Vagrancy
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 7
AFTER having no permanent job for five years, Herbert Frederick Slater, vagrant, may work…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boys Before Court
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3
In the Childern's Court yesterday three young beys were charged with breaking, entering and stealing and with malicious damage to a butcher shop, the property…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Application for Vacant House
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 6
William Percy and Patrick Donelly applied in the Police Court yesterday, under the War Service Moratorium Act, for possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police, Strikers in Fierce Clash; Men's Leader Hurt
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1
BRISBANE.— Scores of police thrashed with flailing batons into the strikers march in Brisbane today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Verdict For Plaintiff In Small Debts Court
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 8
IN a case arising from a year-old debt, Charles Stivala was ordered to pay £11/3/3 to Ivan Ravlich in the Small Debts Court today. Ivan Ravlich, of 166 Patton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →First Arrests Under Anti-Picketing Law Police Prevent Street March
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1
Brisbane, March 16.—The first arrest arising out of the present strike was mode in Brisbane this morning when Edward Conrad Englart (50), State Secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, was taken into custody on two traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comic Court In Brilliant Win At Cheltenham Veteran Ducal Defeats Sprinters
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 4
As Comic Court had recently defeated Melbourne's best two-year-olds at Flemington. It was not surprising that bookmakers demanded long odds-on when the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank Case Now Within Six Days Of Record For Full High Court Hearing Dr. Evatt In Fourteenth Day Of Address In Defence
Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1
Melbourne, March 16.—There was nothing in the Federal Constitution which put any Governmental operation in a position interior to that of any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempted Murder of Wife Is Alleged
Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 8
BALLARAT—John Proctor Bird, 44, police constable stationed at Ballarat, was arrested last night and charged with the attempted murder of his wife, Violet Margaret Bird…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ordered Out Of Court
Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3
Brisbane. March 17.—Mr. Julius was ordered, out of court when he attempted to name a detective who he alleged Injured Mr. Paterson with a baton Julius…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor Caucus Behind Hanlon; Police Action
Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3
BRISBANE—A proposal that a public inquiry should be held into yesterday's clash between strikers and the police was defeated by a large majority at a meeting of the Labor Caucus last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seize Gold Worth MoreThan£800
Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 4
MELBOURNE—Detectives who raided a house at Essendon seized more than £800 worth of gold…
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