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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Assault Charges Sustained

The Northern Champion · Saturday 27 May 1950 · page 2

Victor Avery, a ferry hand, of Forster, was charged with unlawfully assaulting Warren Andrew Blows at Forster on 1st April last, while Charles…

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Fair Rents Court

The Northern Champion · Saturday 27 May 1950 · page 2

In the Fair Rents Court, Sidney Ernest Brown, as the occupier of a house at Tuncurry owned, by Francis Richard Avery, sought for a determination of…

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Forster Petty Sessions Court

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 May 1950 · page 2

At Forster Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, before Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M., Maxwell Percy Smith tendered a plea of guilty to…

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Court of Petty Sessions Forster, Thursday, 25th MAY (Before Mr Pocock, S.m.) Fisheries Breaches

The Northern Champion · Saturday 27 May 1950 · page 2

Maxwell Percy Smith tendered a plea of guilty to a charge of having in his possession a quantity of oysters reasonably suspected as having been stolen…

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Assault Charge Postponed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 1

Colin Charles Blows charged Wylie Ray Gregory with assault. Mr. Butterworth appeared for the complainant…

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Boy's Shocking Conduct Deplored By Magistrate

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY.--The conduct of an 11 year old boy had been "fantastic, shocking and astounding," Mr. Debenham, S.M., said…

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Court of Petty Sessions

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 1

At Forster Court of Petty Sessions, Thursday week, before Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M., Maxwell Percy Smith tendered a plea of guilty to…

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Ferry Hand Convicted Of Unlawful Assault

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 2

Before Mr. F. G. Pecock, S.M., at Forster Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, Victory Ayery; a ferry hand, of Forster, was charged with…

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Assault Cases at Forster Charge and Counter Charge

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 4

In last issue we detailed the cases heard by Mr F. G. Pocock, S.M., at the Forster Court of Pc.ty Sessions on Thursday last, and briefly mentioned a case of…

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Unusual Defence Submission To Court

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 2

There was it somewhat unusual submission made by a defence lawyer in the Court of Petty Sessions on Monday when Mr. Pocock…

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District Court June 26

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 1

The Kempsey District Court will sit at the Court House on Monday, June 26, when His Honor Judge Storkey, V.C., will preside…

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Police Appreciation of Council Work During Flood

Macleay Argus · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 1

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. F. Scott) has forwarded to the President (Cr. H. D. Woodward) and the other…

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Magistrate Discharges Accused Railwayman

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 June 1950 · page 1

In the Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M., discharged Felix Andrew Hinchey, a railway employee at Taree, who was charged with having in his room part of a bottle of gin reasonably suspected to have…

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A.P.P.U. To Register With Arbitration Court

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 June 1950 · page 6

"During 1950 A.P.P.U. will register with the Arbitration Court. It is the only primary producers' union qualified to so register, which give us…

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Cattle Rustling. Police Investigations In Nowendoc District

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 2

Police have been investigating reports of widespread cattle rustling over hundreds of miles from Walcha to districts on the North…

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A.P.P.U. to Register— with Arbitration Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1950 · page 3

"During 1950 A.P.P.U. will register with the Arbitration Court. It is the only primary producers' union qualified to register, which gives us…

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Charged with Cattle Stealing Police Arrest Graziers

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 2

In a dawn raid on Saturday police and blacktrackers arrested two alleged cattle thieves in a lonely hut in mountains near Nowendoc…

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Salesman Admonished by Stipendiary Magistrate

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 1

A 34-year-old married salesman who was arrested by the police on May 23 and was charged in the Taree Court of Petty Sessions on Monday with unlawfully assaulting a 19-year-old girl in a house in Wonga Street, was…

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Alleged Assault on Young Woman Charge Against Salesman

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 1

At the Taree Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, before Mr F. G. Pocock, S.M., John Laurence Swan, a salesman was charged with assaulting Denise…

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Taree Court of Petty Sessions

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 June 1950 · page 1

Ouring Anzac Day celebrations in Taree, when victoria Street was temporarily closed to traffic. Alfred R. Tyler drove his motor car on the…

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