Court's Regard of Driving Under Influence Charges
"It is obvious that some courts do not consider driving under the influence of liquor as the serious offence contemplated by Parliament…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Court of Petty Sessions Taree,monday, 5th JUNE (Before Mr F. G. Pocock, S.m.) Drunkenness Charges
The following were charged with drunkenness: Ernest Sands, Albert W. Beathe, Henry, A. Foster, Robert Sherry William Kim, Kelvin G. Smith-Sands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court of Petty Sessions. Wingham, Tuesday, June 6, 1950. Before Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M. Too Much Liquor
Thomas Joseph Byrnes, of 175 Victoria Road, Marrickville, and William Henry Germon, of Gloucester, charged with being drunk in a public place,…
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Yon Koscik, 23, of West Kempsey, received a severe lacerated wound under the right eye when, it is alleged, he was attacked by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Months for Stealing
Current sentences of four and two months respectively for stealing were imposed upon a defendant at the Kempsey Police Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Football Booth License--refused by Magistrate
An application for a booth license at the Kempsey Park on the day of the big football match between the Englishmen and the North Coast next Wednesday, was refused by the Licensing Court, presided over by Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M., last Wednesday on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Tribute to Kempsey Postal Staff
The District Postal Inspector is in receipt of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. F. Scott) in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Stealing Said to Be Widespr'd on N. Coast
Following reports of widespread cattle stealing on the North Coast, Police are said to have arrested two men and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Salesman Admonished by Stipendiary Magistrate
A 34-year-old married salesman who was arrested by the police on May 23 and was charged in the Taree Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged with Cattle Stealing
In a dawn raid police and black trackers arrested two alleged cattle thieves in a lonely hut in mountains near Nowendoc…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court— Remanded on Cattle Stealing Charge
In the Gloucester Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. F. J. Smith and M. Newton, Js.P., Hamilton Keith McCarthy, dealer and drover,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Salesman Admonished by Stipendiary Magistrate
A 34-year old married salesman who was arrested by Die police on May 23, and was charged in the Taree Court of Petty Sessions with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man for Trial on Wife Murder Charge
NEWCASTLE, Fri.--A man accused of having murdered his wife, was alleged by Detective C. B. Williams to have admitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Australian Called Police Sergeant Communist
A New Australian who called Sergeant E. Maher, of Macksville police, a "Communist and a Gestapo'" was discharged by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Charged With Murdering Wife Committed for Trial
In the Newcastle Coroner's Court on Thursday, Harold Stephen Devereaux (29), woood machinist, of Stockton, was committed for trial on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Indecent Assault on Girl Accused Not Ready to Proceed
When a case was called at the Taree Quarter Sessions on Monday, the accused told the Court that he was not ready to proceed because he had not been able…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Australian Calls Police Sergeant a Communist
A New Australian who called Sergeant E. Maher, of Macksville police, a "Communist and a Gestapo" was discharged by Mr A. E. Capp, S.M., at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Indecent Assault on Girl
When a case was called at the Taree Quarter Sessions on Monday, the accused told the Court that he was not ready to proceed because…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Valuation Court
Thirty appeals against the Kempsey Municipal Council valuations were finalised by Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M., in the Valuation Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court
The Licensing Inspector (Inspector Steele) told Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M. in the Licensing Court in Kempsey on Wednesday that…
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