Use of Long Paddock Meant Heavy "Agistment Fees" Defendants Before Court for Straying Stock
Ten persons appeared in the local Police Court before Mr. J. McElrcy, P.M., yesterday afternoon on charges of allowing…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 51
Censorship Issue Before High Court. Actions by Sydney Newspapers. Intense Pubjlic Interest. Sydney
Seating accommodation at the High Court was packed this morning when the hearing was listed of actions by Sydney newspapers to test the legality…
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NEWCASTLE Monday. — For stealing tools valued at £2, the property of the Commonwealth Steel Co.. Lloyd Hamilton Frith…
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John Leslie Rowley, [?], a labourer, was sentenced to six months’ gaol by Mr. I. Beavers, PM, at West Maitland court…
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SYDNEY Monday—In Cham[?]rs today the Chief Justice of [?] High Court, Sir John Latham, [?]ade an order that a statement…
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A 17-year old youth has been arrested on a murder charge following the death early to-day at the rear of a house at Cabramatta of Mrs. Helen…
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LONDON April 24—Ivor Novello, the film star, was sentenced eight weeks' imprisonment for alleged petrol offence, also for…
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A Macquarie Street specialist (Dr. Howard Bullock) was fined £50 for contempt of court. He failed to attend the court to give evidence after being…
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PERTH Wed.âThe body of George Spiers, an officer in the accounts branch of Hollywood Military Hospital, was found in…
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Dr. Howard Bullock, a MacQuarie Street specialist and honorary surgeon at Sydney Hospital, was severely reprimanded…
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Although only 19 years of age, Gunner Milton Thomas Green is entitled to wear four chevrons for service in Libya and New…
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NEWCASTLE Thursday.—In the quarter sessions today the bearing was[?] of the case in which Murry May…
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LONDON, April 26—A military tribunal in Algiers has sentenced to death 36 Frenchmen in absentia…
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SYDNEY Thursday—The following statement was issued by Mr. G. A. Watson, Deputy Crown Solicitor, Sydney, yesterday:—…
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NEWCASTLE Friday.—Muriel May Fulford (42), barmaid, found guilty in the Quarter Sessions last night of using an instrument…
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NEWCASTLE Friday.—Gordon Geoffrey Hall (24), cycle dealer pleaded not guity in the Quarter Sessions to-day to theft of a…
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Lance Keith Glew, 39, of Lithgow, was sentenced at Bathurst Quarter Sessions to 18 months' imprisonment on six charges of fraudulently failing…
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SCONE Friday—Mr. Gurner Firth, well-known business man of Scone, has received a letter from the Commissioner of Police…
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SYDNEY Friday-The State Full Cours to-day [?] to deal [?] attempt by the Crown to attach the “Sydney Morning…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Roy Kable, 32, labourer has been charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Irene Kable, 32, who was…
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