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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,163 stories in Murray's papers · page 29 of 59

Unions to Contest Court Order Involving £100,000 SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 July 1949 · page 1

FOUR key Federal unions will contest an order secured against them on Saturday by the Commonwealth Government for the return of £100,000 withdrawn from the banks last Wednesday. The unions will put their case before Judge Kelly, Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court, in Sydney tomorrow. The money, it was alleged, was withdrawn from the hanks by the unions to avoid the…

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Stock Inspector Committed For Trial on Sheep Stealing

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 7

Wagga P.P. Board stock inspector, Thomas Edmond Keith Ryan, 58, was committed for trial on a charge of…

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Police Protecting Miners at Work

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday : Protected by 12 members of the police force, six Queensland coal mines in the Ipswich area were…

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Wodonga Police Investigate £1250 Jewel Loss

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 1

Investigations are being conducted by Wodonga police into the alleged theft of £1250 worth of jewellery from a…

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Court Action on Union Funds

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 4

Mr. Justice Kelly yesterday ordered the Ironworker's Union to pay £25,000 and the Miners' Federation £15,000 to the Registrar…

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Kitchen Battle Aired in Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 1

Failure to shut the door often brings down the wrath in most households, but it started a small war at 42 Hume street, in May, when following an instruction to close the door, an altercation commenced between two residents of the house, which culminated in the Echuca…

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Court Challenge to Coal Strike Act

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday, noon:- The validity of the Court order made yesterday by the Federal Arbitration Court, in ordering Federal Unions to pay to the Registrar moneys withdrawn from banks last week, was challenged in the High…

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Two Unions Ordered To Produce £40,000 In Court Today SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 July 1949 · page 3

JUDGE KELLY, in the federal Arbitration Court to-day, ordered officials of the Miners’ Federation and the Ironworkers 9 Association to produce £40,000 to the Registrar of the court by 11 a.m. tomorrow…

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Man Already in Gaol to Be Sentenced Again

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Tues. : A 23-year-old truck driver sentenced to five years’ imprisonment last week for robbery with violence…

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Woomargama for Theft; Man Arrested in Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 12

A 33-year-old laborer has been arrested in Melbourne and charged with unlawful possession of a motor car alleged to have been…

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Police Seek Two Armed Bandits

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 15

SYDNEY, Tues: Detectives were tonight making an intensive search for two men who staged an armed hold-up at a Petersham jeweller’s…

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Police Search for Jap Rail Chief

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 15

TOKIO, Tues.: Japan’s police are searching for Sadanori Shimoyama, chairman of the State Railway Corporation, who…

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Jap P.o.w. Clash with Police

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 12

TOKIO, Tues: One Japanese ex prisoner of war from groups currently returning from Sibena, was seriously injured in a clash with…

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High Court Proceedings Hold Up Union Funds “Freezing” Hearing SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 3

JUDGE KELLY to-day adjourned the "union funds case" in the Arbitration Court until to-morrow to await the outcome of proceedings in the High Court. He said that if the High Court upheld his orders to the Miners’…

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Unions Contest Validity Of Strike Act In High Court SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 1

A HIGH COURT judgment to be delivered at 11 o’clock to-morrow validity or otherwise of an order by the Federal Arbitration Court Chief Judge (Judge Kelly) directing two unions to deliver into the court £40,000 withdrawn from banks last week. The two unions concerned are the Miners’ Federation and the Ironworkers’ Association…

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Wodonga and District Section News From Chiltern And District New Police Station for Chiltern

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 7

The tender of R. J. Lowe, Perry st., Wangaratta, for £3,753/11/9. has been accepted for the erection and completion of a new timber…

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Carpenter Charged with Murder

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.: John Patrick Rylands, 19, a carpenter, of Croydon road, Croydon, was charged in the Balmain Court…

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Tug’s Crew, Owners Issue Supreme Court Writ

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Owners, master and crew of the tug Terawhiti today issued Supreme Court writs claiming compensation in…

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High Court Upholds Govt’s. Coal Act Three Judges Unanimous Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 1

HIGH Court today upheld the validity of the National Emergency (Coal Strike) Act and the validity of the orders made by Mr. Justice Kelly, of the Arbitration Court, for the return of money withdrawn from banks by unions…

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Police Guards for Jap. Minister

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 16

TOKIO, Thurs.: The Japanese Government tonight ordered police guards for all Cabinet Ministers as industrial unrest…

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