Opening Day Police Club for Boys
The Newcastle Police and Citizens’ Boys’ Club will be officially opened on Saturday. April 20. A procession is planned for the ceremony in the…
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Courts & crime, 1940
1,293 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 65
“Miners Must Go to the Court” Government Won’t Intervene MELBOURNE
The Federal Minister for Industry, Mr. Hughes, in a statement last night, said the miners on strike would not go to the Arbitration Court, and there the matter stood. They still persisted in asking for Government Intervention, and his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Poland's Mass Murder London
Shocking stories of Nazi and Gestapo atrocities in German-occupied Poland have been revealed by the Provisional Polish…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Charged Goods in Custody SINGLETON
Goods stolen from a railway truck a Singleton on Wednesday night were recovered in a hidding piece on the railway property. The articles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →K.C's. Son Sentenced for Hotel Fraud "Contemptible Crime."
Stated to be the son of a late eminent K.C., and to have held a responsible post in the East before he began to drift into crime seven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Singleton and District Police Court Case Under Liquor Act Fine of £10 SINGLETON ,Friday
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Force Promotions Announced
The Commissioner of Police, Mr McKay, has announced the following police promotions in the Newcastle and Maitland districts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tennis Court Accident
Whilst umpiring in a tennis game on Lord's court on Saturday afternoon last, Owen Simmons fell off the umpiring stand and dislocated his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge. Shooting Affray Sequel. SYDNEY
A shooting affray in Woolloomooloo last night had its aftermath at the Central Court to-day, when Esau Henry Curran, 59, pensioner, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Night Clubs' Harm to Young People Report of Police Commissioner
Amendments to the Liquor Act to give the police power to deal with night clubs where the liquor laws are broken and the general conduct…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Refuses to Fight for Country Jehovah's Witness Tells Court
Charles Barron Ennor, who described himself as a minister of the Church of Jehovah's Witness, applied on Friday to Mr. Sheridan, S.M., in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paper Fined Contempt of Court “Vicious Attack” Brisbane
Giving reserved judgment in the Supreme Court at Rockempton, Mr Justice Brennan found Truth and Sportsman Ltd and Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court May Move Ending Coal Strike 35,000 Men Idle Industry Hampered
The Federal Arbitration Court, it is believed, is likely to make a move in the next few days to summon a conference of the parties to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Police Court Alleged Breach of Liquor Act
Denis James William Owen Ruddock, of Allandale Street, Cessnock, was convicted and fined £10, in default 20 days' hard labour, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Concert Party From Weston
A concert party organised by, Mr. and Mrs-5. C. Hayword, of Weston visited the Maitland Gaol on Saturday and entertained the inmates with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Charged Alleged Stolen Car
Ronald Joseph Smith (19) and. John William Charles Brown (18) appeared at the West Maitland Court to-day on b charge of having stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charged in Hospital Alleged Possession of Counterfeits KATOOMBA
A man, who was in the Blue Mountains District Hospital as the result of a motor accident, was charged at a special court there with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Had 10 Names, Married 8 Times Four Years' Gaol
A man who had posed as several doctors, had used ten names, and married eight "wives," was on Friday sentenced at Sydney Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man in Court Sequel to Disturbance
William Webster Davies (28), a militiaman, was charged at West Maitland Court to-day with having assaulted Constable Melvin Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Angourie Crocodile Again Police Belief in Its Presence
The Police Department believes that the Angourie crocodile is still in the district. In a letter to Harwood Shire Council, it suggested that,…
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