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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Japanese Assault On Himalayas

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

TOKYO (Reuter): Japanese Alpinists, preparing for their second assault on 26,658 feet Mt. Manaslo, in the…

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Police Search for Attacker

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police are conducting an intensive search for a man, who abused, punched and stabbed a…

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Queen To Review U.K. Police

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

Queen Elizabeth II. is to review the police forces of the United Kingdom in Hyde Park, London, on July 14…

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Successful Year for Police Boys' Club Opens For Instruction To-morrow Night

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

The Cessnock Police and Citizens' Boys' Club had made great strides in the last 12 months, the President of…

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Gaol for Taking Car

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 4

LITHGOW: Kenneth Sydney Perry, 22, of King’s Cross-road, King’s Cross, was sentenced to six months’ gaol at Lithgow…

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Police Transfer

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 1

The Police Department has announced the transfer of Constable B. A .Beattie from Cessnock to Maitland…

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Court-Martial Gives 10 Years’ Sentence

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 4

TOKYO: A court-martial in Tokyo sentenced Lieutenant Norman Poole, of Kingaroy. (Queensland), to 10 years’…

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Court application in Hospital dispute Hospital Commission Probe on

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 2

The nursing staff dispute at the Dangar Cottage Hospital took a dramatic turn yesterday when the Secretary of the N.S.W. Nurses Association (Mr. Hart) made an application to the Arbitration Court for the Court to convene a compulsory conference at Singleton to resolve…

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Ten Soldiers Fined Australia Day Spree ends in Court Officer, trainee attacked

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 1

Ten National Service Trainees charged at Singleton Court House yesterday with offensive behaviour on Australia Day were said by police to have assaulted an army officer, attacked…

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Court application in Hospital dispute— Commission investigation- page 2 Members well pleased with Sub-Branch progress Members well pleased with Sub-Branch progress

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 1

There was a record attendance at the annual meeting of the Singleton Sub-branch of the R.S.S. and A.I. League on Friday night. Membership of 418 was the highest in the history of the Subbranch, and the executive officers, with the exception of treasurer Geoff…

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Magistrate Had Some Regret

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 2

Charged In Singleton Court with offensive behaviour on January 26, 10 National Service trainees were said by…

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Police Boys’ Club Opened

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 2

CESSNOCK: President of Cessnock Police Boys’ Club (Inspector C. Kennedy) said at the opening of the…

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Police Band at Newcastle’s Welcome

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 2

The New South Wales Police Band will use Elga’s arrangement of the National Anthem to lead the singing…

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Magistrate Commends Defendant

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 5

A man was commended by the Magistrate (Mr. F. R. Wood) yesterday when he faced a negligent driving charge…

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Muswellbrook Police Court Convicted on Vagrancy Charge

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 9

At the Muswellbrook Police Court on Wednesday last, before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., Kenneth Logue was charged with…

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Alcoholics Group Likely For Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 6

MELBOURNE: Although permission has not yet been granted, Victorian penal authorities favour a move by…

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Admissions Made Police Say

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Alfred William Hunter, 39, labourer, Cowper-street, Granville, was charged to-day with having set fire to…

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Long Chase By Police

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 6

DARWIN: A police party on the east coast of Arnhem Land walked and paddled tiny canoes for seven days on the…

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Man Convicted of Theft at Dance Incident at Local Hall

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 10

At the Mus well brook Police Court on Wednesday, Samuel Arthur Sturt, of No. 4 Hostel, Scone, was charged with having, on 22nd January, stolen a small purse containing the sum of 5/3. the property of Pamela Frances Hewett, of 50…

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Black Police. for U.n. Plan

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Labor M.P., has suggested having colored policemen in Britain. Mrs. Braddock…

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