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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

2,397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 120

Cesbnock Hotels. Request Not to Serve Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

As a protest against the number) of uniformed and private police in the town, hotelkeepers and their staffs in Cessnock have been…

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Conditions at Mount Isa Exaggerated, Say Police

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

There is no truth in allegations that people have been assaulted and threatened by beer strikers at Mt. Isa (Q.) according to a report received by the…

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Police at Rothbury. Association Secretary's Comment. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

Commenting on statements regarding the conditions under which the police were working at Rothbury, the secretary of the Police Association…

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Rothbury Malicious Propaganda Communists Ejected. Police Not Satisfied

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) said last night that malicious propaganda was being Instituted to discredit the Government's…

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Lottery Drawing?. Journalists in Court. Capetown, Jan. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 7

After the "Rand Bally Mall" had described tho drawing of a lottery, in a Johannasburg Hotel a tow weeks age, the Minister for Justice ordered…

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Criminal Charge. Witness Can't Be Found, Police Allegation. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 5

At the Central Court, to-day, Aubrey Cummins, 21, a labourer, guido collity, 23, a dealer, and Sydney Kelly, 29, a dealer, were…

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Police on the Field Statement by Secretary. Men Loyal and Philosophical Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 2

B. Fortescue, Secretary of the Police Association, said it was a fact that soon after the police were sent to Rothbury he went there and saw the…

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Police Court. Charge Dismissed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 1

At the Muswcllbrook Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Taylor, J.P., Villious Thorley (18) pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in an offensive…

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Communist Fined. Insulting Words to Police. Magistrate's Comment. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

There was an echo of an arrest made in Cessnock on the night of December 15, at Cessnock Court to-day, when Herbert James Huggett, of…

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Ravensworth Burglary. Teacher's Residence Entered. Thief Took Advantage of Holidays

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

On Boxing night the residence occupied by Mr. F. A. Evans, school teacher, of Ravensworth, was broken into and a quantity of clothing, valued…

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Alleged Fraud. Accountant and Promoter Charged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day, Robert Bruce Dickson, aged 39, a promoter, and George Patterson, 37, an accountant, were charged…

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Police in Coalfields Hotels

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

A deputation from the miners lodges, in the Kurri Kurri district wailed on the domestic servants employed at hotels where police have…

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Rothbury Police Confidence in Government. Satisfied with Conditions. Police Statement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

A statement issued yesterday on behalf of the police encamped at Rothbury colliery set out that most of the men in camp attended a…

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Cessnock Court Statistics

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 8

Cessnock court statistics show that the fallowing volume of business was transacted during 1929:— 15 Shire and Municipal appeals; 8…

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Accommodation of Police Meeting of Hotel Employees

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

This afternoon at the Cessnock School of Arts, Mr. H. Forben, secretary of the Hotel, club, Restaurant Employees Union, and Mr. A…

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Cessnock Court. Indecent Language. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 2

At Cessnock Police Court to-day, James Callaghan was charged with having used indecent language on Christmas Day…

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Hotels Black at Kurri Effect of Police Residence

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

When the domestic employees at the hotels at Kurri Kurri were approached to cease work at the hotels where the police were…

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Beeby Award Testing Its Validity. Case Before Pull Court. Owners' Contention. MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

The Full High Court of Australia commenced to-day the hearing of the case which will contest the validity or otherwise…

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"The Police Are Scabs" Communist Speaker Fined on Charge of Insulting Words. "A Very Serious Matter," Says P.M.

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 5

"The police are all scabs; they belong to the basher gang; they are machine made scabs used by the Government." The above words, according to evidence given at Cessnock Police Court to-day, were used by Herbert James Huggett, Communist speaker,…

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Looking Backwards. Death of Tommy Ryan. Constable Hadley's Case Recalled. Law Precedent for Powers of Arrest. From "N.s.w. Police News."

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 6

So the last has been seen of that notorious aboriginal, "Tommy Ryan," who has departed this life to join the spirits of his ancestors—a customary…

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