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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

1,099 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 55

Scone Court of Petty Sessions

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 2

Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., occupied the Bench at Scone Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, when a lengthy Court list was heard. BETTING CASES…

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Ruling Of Greyhound Board Upheld By Equity Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 February 1948 · page 8

The right of the Greyhound Racing Control Board, of N.S.W. to deregister a greyhound racing…

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Violation of Ban Charged

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21— Phillip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organisations, pleaded not guilty to…

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£3000 Theft From Home Near Inverell

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 1

Three detectives from C.I.B. headquarters arrived at Inverell on Tuesday afternoon by air to investigate a £3000 robbery from a house on the…

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Farewell to Police Sgt. Gorman

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 21 February 1948 · page 2

A citizens' farewell was accorded to Sergeant F. Gorman and Mrs. Gorman in the School of Arts, East Gresford…

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Police Intervene in Street Brawl Three Men Fined £50

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 February 1948 · page 3

Fines totalling £50 were imposed on three soldiers by Mr. W. C. Avery, S.M., at West Maitland court to-day, following a brawl on Saturday evening between soldiers and the provost corps, and into which the civilian police were called…

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Alleged Theft Of £254

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

David Shimmins Ellis. 35, labourer. was charged at West Maitland court yesterday afternoon on warrant with having at Brishane [?]…

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Charge of Wife Murder

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Reginald James Hitching, 27 former prisoner of war who has been charged with the murder of his…

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Cessnock Court (Before Mr. Avery. S.M.)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 3

Alan Loughman was fined £2/10/ with 5/6 costs, on a charge of having permitted an unlicenced driver to ride a motor-cycle…

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Deputy Chief of Police

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday. — The Executive Council announced this morning that Superintendent S McCarthy had been appointed…

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Police and Trade Unions Prominent in Czech Coup

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 1

PRAGUE February 25.—Lorry loads of troops and police cruised the streets as 90,000 people shouting “Long live Gottwald” and “Long live Benes gathered last night in Wenceslaus Square in answer to the call of the…

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Alleged Theft

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 6

MUSWELLBROOK: Three men were arrested by Sergeant E. S. Fairlamb and Constable Pugh and charged with breaking and entering…

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Arbitration Court Order Defied

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Four hundred tramway workshop employees of four unions failed to report for work this morning…

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Rival Claims in the Falklands Matter For International Court of Justice

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 1

LONDON, February 26.—Britain’s dispute with Argentina and Chile will not be referred to the United Nations Security Council. Announcing this in the House of Commons, the Foreign…

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Police Boys' Club

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 5

WE are looking forward to the time when the Cessnock Police and Citizens' Boys Club will be an accomplished fact. The money—£15,000 or…

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Defying Court’s Order

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.— At a mass meeting to-day striking railwaymen decided to defy the Industrial Court’s order…

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Queensland Railway Strike. Court's Order May Be Ignored. Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 1

Striking railwaymen throughout Queensland will to-day at mass meetings consider the Industrial Court's order that they should…

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Racing Sidelights Hiraji Chosen to Win at Randwick Engaged in Denham Court Handicap Barnsley and Tamaroa Tote Bets

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 6

The Denham Court Handicap, run over seven furlongs at Randwick should prove the most interesting event of the day…

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Charged with Conspiracy

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday—The General Manager and Factory Manager of the egg Puip Marketing Board of Victoria’s factory,…

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Northern Police Transfers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 3

The following Police transfers in the North-Eastern Division have been noticed: Sergeants L. E. Boucher, Mayfield…

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