Compensation Court
An award for the respondent company, with costs on the second scale, was made in a case in which Walter Welsh Robertson sought compensation…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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District Court Verdict
SINGLETON Friday.— Judge Nield yesterday gave a verdict for Robert Henry Chenoweth, trading as Russell and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Looked Like Drapery Shop
When Eric Ivan Wilson, 22, faced 13 charges of shopbreaking, there were so many exhibits the Ballarat (Vic.) Court looked more like a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Race Carnivals. Help for Anzac House Appeal
SCONE.—The Scone Police Anzac House Appeal race meeting will be held on 2nd September, and not.on 26th August, as previously advertised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Police Ball Big Function for Scone on 10th AUGUST
What promises to be a big night out for Scone folk is the Police ball advertised elsewhere in this issue. It has to be said that when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fix Minimum Wage for Women Court Will Examine Claim
CANBERRA Sat.—The need for an increase in the minimum wage of women workers in 12 “vital” industries will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: “Losses To Repair” Russian Frontal Assault Launched on Riga Nazis Report First Snow In Transylvania (Australian Associated Press)
LONDON Sept 29—The Russians are making a frontal assault on Riga, in a semi-circle from the Gulf of Riga to the [?]outh-western approaches of the city. The British Unied Press correspondent says that Cossack…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Court
CESSNOCK, Monday.—At the Cessnock court this morning before Mr. Hodgson, PM. Archinald King was fined £3 tor indecent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Successful Police Ball At Jerry's Plains
Approximately £27 was raised at Jerry's Plains for the Police Anzac House appeal, and the ball held there has been described as one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Police Court. Yesterday's Sitting. [?]
At Cessnock Police Court yesterday Archibald King was fined £8/10/ for being drunk and behaving in an indecent manner in Vincent Street on July 28…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—Australia’s meat industry, badly bungled by officials, was chaotic, and threatened to get out of hand, said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bidding at Sheep Sale Dealer -- Butcher Charged
A case of considerable interest to the stock industry was heard at West Maitland court to-day when a stock dealer wis charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Murder U.S. Crew. New York
The Japanese murdered three-fourths of the crew after torpedoing a United States' Liberty ship in the Indian Ocean in June, says Roy Porter, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged with Having Had a Still
NEWCASTLE Wed. — George Peter Engel, oyster farmer, of Lemontree Passage, was charged in the Summons Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →12 Months’ Gaol for Soldier
NEWCASTLE Thursday. — Pleading guilty in the police court to eight charges of theft. William Thomas Lindberg (25),…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cold-blooded Murder of 19 CANADIANS Brutal Crime Sheeted Home To Germans (Australian Associated Press)
LONDON August 2—The cold-blooded murder of 19 Canadians by men of the 12th S.S. Panzer division, on June 8, in the Pavie area of Normandy, is officially revealed, says the British United Press correspondent in France…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Convicted for Theft. Two Cases Before Local Court
In the Muswellbrook Police Court, James Edwards (47), laborer was charged with having on 28th July last stolen a tent, valued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further Committals Youths on Burglary Charges
Four youths who were committed for trial from the West Maitland court on July 24 on a number of burglary charges,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunger Strike in Gaol
PERTH Friday.—As a protes’ [?] their detention for hav[?] been absent without leave when their ship sailed, 14 seamen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Over £100 in Donations Subscriptions to Police Anzac House Appeal
It was reported to-day that over £100 had already been received by way of donations to the special effort being conducted…
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