Theft of Motors Is Dairymen's Nightmare Police to Be Asked to Take More Serious View
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 1
Members of Maitland branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council claimed this week that the present rampant theft of electric motors was proving a real nightmare…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 May 1949 · page 2
A fall police investigation into yesterday's tragic 'bus smash at The Spit was ordered by the Chief of the Superintendent Thompson. Members…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 3
DARWIN. —A jury in the Northern Territory Supreme Court found an aboriginal, Bobbie, guilty of the murder of…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A request that a police automotive expert be detailed to assist Transport Department engineers…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1949 · page 4
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A union official told the chief conciliation commissioner, Mr. Mooney, yesterday that employers hare been waiting for years to get an opportunity to remove penalty rates for shift work…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thurs. — The Full Bench of the Arbitration Court reserved judgment on a request to deregister the…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 8
At the Merriwa Police Court on Saturday last, Arthur Draper was fined 10/-, in default 24 hours' hard labor on a charge of drunkenness…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday.—Superintendent J. Wiley, of No. 1 Division, has been appointed officer in charge of the Newcastle division…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 4
CESSNOCK, Thursday. — Sergeant Stevenson, deputy president of the Police Boys’ Glob, visited Cessnock this morning…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 7
Due to higher posts of material and labour, the proposed Police and Citizens Boys' club at Cessnock would cost [?]22,000 the Deputy-President of…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 3
Superintendent Clifford, of Newcastle, was in Dungog during the week whilst on his tour of inspection of Police Stations. He visited…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 1
NEW YORK, June 4.—Police in three states—Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia—are searching for 14 prisoners who escaped early yesterday from the State penitentiary at Moundsville (West Virginia)…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1949 · page 4
BOMBAY: Bombay’s newly recruited policewomen went into action here for the first time, breaking up a women’s…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 3
The failure of some motor-drivers to dip their headlights made driving for others most difficult and almost impossible…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 3
CALCUTTA, June 6.—One person was killed and 26 injured when police opened fire here on crowd who broke up a…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 1
PARIS, June 6.—A policeman was fatally shot in the mouth and at least 10 people were seriously injured when police and two demonstrators fired on each other with machine guns and revolvers at Marseilles yesterday. The “battle” began when 300…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Monday. — The Full High Court unanimously ruled to-day that the Federal Government did not have the power to ration petrol. The Court declared that the National Security (Liquid…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 2
In Melbourne today, the full High Court unanimously ruled that the Federal Government did not have the power to ration petrol. The Court declared that the National Security (Liquid…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 1
WASHINGTON, June 7.—A Bell Aircraft Company librarian told the House Committee on Un-American activities yesterday,…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The National Security (War Service Moratorium) Regulation, which permitted an exserviceman to obtain a court warrant entitling him to occupy a home which is vacant or is about to become vacant, was…
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