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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

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Enlistment Ban On Police

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—The Police Association has learned that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. McKay, intends to take steps to have…

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Jumped From Express Train American Soldier Eludes Military Police

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 2

An American soldier escaped from American military police while being, escorted from Melbourne to Brisbane on Sunday…

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Soldier Fined For Stealing Petrol

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Thursday.— At 8.30 p.m. yesterday. Constable Fenley saw Leslie Miller, Dennis (251, soldier, riding a motor-cycle…

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Gaol for Failing to Enrol

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Thursday.—For jailing to attend foi military enrolment victor Edger Hamllion was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment…

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Elected to Go to Gaol Man Charged with Absenteeism

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

Norman Jones, one of the 44 war workers whe pleaded guilty in the Central Summons Court, Sydney en Wednesday night to charges of…

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Alleged Theft of Bicycle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Friday.—William Raymond Thomas (25) electrician an, was charged in the police court to-day with having stolen a…

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Meanest Theft of All

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 4

The meanest theft of all time is reported by the N.R.M.A. A member of the association seeing a fellow motorist in trouble on the road, spent…

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Soldier On Assault Charges

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday—Harold Athol Ackroyd, 21, a soldier, was remanded at Newtown Court to-day on two charges of assault…

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Muswellbrook Police Court. £20 Fines for S.P. Betting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

At the Muswellbrook Police Court yesterday, Norman James Simpson, a coal miner, and Jamese Bede Faulkner were charged with street betting…

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Heavy Rain Delays Assault at Sanananda

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Friday.—New developments in the Papuan campaign cannot be expected in the immediate…

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Police Promotion

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Friday.—Sergeant J. W. Booth of Cessnock, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant. first class. He is one of…

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Police Chief And Manpower Rules

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY Friday—“I have not been officially informed of the position, and it is all news to me. When 1 receive a report, I…

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Police and Manpower. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 2

Emphasising to-day that the National Security Regulations, as applying to protected industries would be applied in their entirety, the…

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No Special Treatment for the Police

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE Friday—Emphasising to-day that National Security Regulations as applying to protected industries would be…

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Absentee Court Sits at Cessnock Contract Wheelers Charged

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 2

CESSNOCK Sat.—The special court, which was constituted to deal with the men who were charged with absenting themselves from work at Aberdare Extended Colliery on January 7, was in session [?]t than ten minutes this morning…

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Police and Manpower Authorities

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Saturday.—“Although the Commissioner of Police has stated that be did not wish to take part in the controversy on…

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Police Watch On The Wharves

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Saturday.—An officer of the CIB to–day declared that special squads of detectives, whose only job was to prevent…

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Stole Suitcase Magistrate Warns Soldier

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 2

Pleading guilty at West Maitland court today to a charge of having stolen a suitcase and its contents, valued at £10, the…

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Police Transfer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 4

SINGLETON Monday.—Second Class Sergeant Sewell, of Guyra, will commence duty at the local police station shortly in place of…

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Fined for Assault Argument in House at Hinton

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 3

Charles Alfred Jarrett, 29, a saw-miller, was charged with having at Hinton on October 30 assaulted William Edward Piggott…

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