Viewpoints Readers' Opinions in Fifty Word Letterettes. What do you Think ? Ministers' Power to Override Court Decisions
Singleton Argus · Monday 5 May 1941 · page 3
would be glad if both candidates seeking our votes on Saturday next would state clearly their attitude, if elected, to any proposal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army Boots Proceedings In The , High Court SYDNEY
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 May 1941 · page 8
Proceeding are about to be taken in the High Court against a “number of person” against whom allegations were made regarding army boot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Clerk Sentenced
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 6
At Newcastle Sessions, Judge Nield imposed a sentence of 18 months imprisonment on each of two charges against Roy Gladstone Pain [?] cler…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft and Loss of A.i.f. Parcels
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 2
It was true that some parcels sent from Australia to the A.I.P. in the Middle East had been pillaged and lost, the Army Minister (Mr Spender)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal Fails Constable Convicted Assault Charge Newcastle
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 1
An appeal by Police Constable [?] Treva[?] Watts against his conviction for assault was dismissed by Judge Nield to-day…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 4
James Francis Ryan, 20, labourer, pleaded guilty at the Bathurst Police Court on Monday to a charge of having unlawfully assaulted a baby boy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Army Boot Fraud Action in High Court
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 4
The Federal Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) said on Monday that prosecutions would be launched in the High Court against "a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Cup Won By Newcastle Boy
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 6
The Basil Spicer Cup, offered for the best pass in the 1940 Intermediate Certificate examination, by the child of a policeman stationed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Traffic Cases East Maitland Court
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 6
For having permitted an unlicensed person to drive a motor car, Arthur, Leo Murrell, of Charles street, E[?] kineville, was fined £1 and [?] costs,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Abattoir Site Appeal Against Shire Councils Decision District Court Case
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 6
The bearing of the appeal by Foggitt Jones Pty. Ltd., against a decision of Kearsley Shire Council in regard to premises at Rutherford, commenced before Judge Nield at the Maitland District Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Poultry Exhibits at Police Court Alleged Stealing of Ducks Farmed Convicted and Fined
Singleton Argus · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 1
Two ducks, one dead and the other alive, were exhibits at the Singleton Police Court yesterday afternoon, when three men were charged with having stolen them on, the night of Saturday, April 12. According to the police story. Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rate Arrears Interest To Be Charged SINGLETON
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2
Interest at the rate of five per cent. will be charged on municipal rates unpaid after Thursday, Mau 22. This was reported to the Municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bicycle Theft Man Fined At Newcastle New Castle
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 1
On April 1. Jim Arthur, Dudley Wall (26), sheet metal worker, stole a bicycle at Islington Technical College, and dissembled it. He put some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brutal Assault Attack On Five-Year- Old Boy SYDNEY
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 1
An unknown man brutally assaulted a five-year-old boy in a Boy Scouts’ hall, adjoining St. Thomas’s Church, North Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Still No-motive The Nebo Murder BRISBANE
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 3
Police left Nebo last night for a farm a few miles outside the town ship, following a promising lead to the murder of Herbert Blake and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Firm's Appeal Proposed Abattoirs District Court
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 7
Expert evidence as to the suitability of the site and buildings at Rutherford proposed to be used as abattoirs was given, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Abattoir Appeal Case in the District Court Mr. Cramsie’s Evidence
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 4
John Boyd Cramsie, former Chairman of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board continued giving evidence in the Maitland District yesterday afternoon in the afternoon in the appeal by Foggitt Jones Pty. against the decision of Kearsley Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →15 Years Ago (From "Argus" Files of May 4, May 6 and May 8, 1926.) New Police Buildings
Singleton Argus · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2
The tender of Mr Thos. Ellis, manager of the estate of the late Lena Ellis, has been accepted for the erection of a new charge room and a new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.Z. BLACKOUT Failed To Draw The Blinds Court, Sequel Wellington (N.z.)
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1941 · page 1
For the fourth time in the city’s history a householder has been fined £2 for having failed to draw the blinds and screen the [?]light. above…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Charges Alleged Assault At Cesnock CESSNOCK
Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 5
At Cessnock Police Court to-day Herman Richard Hall pleaded guilty to having behaved in an offensive manner in Hickey-street on January…
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