Road Tax Is Valid : Court
SYDNEY, Thurs. : The High Court today declared valid the N.S.W. road levy on motor vehicles engaged in interstate carriage of goods. The judgment was a majority of four to…
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High Court Will Decide on Peter
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Full High Court of Australia today granted leave to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Frederick Mace to appeal against an order to return their foster son, or Wayne, to his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Holbrook Court briefs Soldier Settler Warned
Warning a Woomargama soldier settler in Holbrook Court yesterday that he could not run rabbits as well as sheep on his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Serial Story Alias Basil Willing a thrilling adventure in multiple murder
THE STORY: Jack Duggan, a private detective, died of poison, possibly was murdered, Basil Willing had followed Duggan to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wodonga Court briefs No Lights : FINED £2
Because he could not secure a battery for his truck, Robert England, Wantigong St., Albury, was forced to leave it parked in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In Tumbarumba Court Retired grazier fined
In Tumbarumba Court yesterday before Mr. Lake, SM, a retired grazier was fined £10 on a charge of attempting to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Peter’s foster parents lodge appeal in the High Court
SYDNEY, Fri.: Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mace lodged an appeal in the High Court today against a State Court ruling to return their foster son, Peter, to his natural mother. Solicitors Allen, Allen and Hemsley lodged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →C.P.’s move to “kill” Two -for-one Bill goes into the Supreme Court
MELBOURNE, Fri.: The Victorian Country Party was granted two Supreme Court injunctions today restraining the Government and Clerk of Parliaments from presenting the Two-for-one Electoral Reform Bill to the Governor for Royal Assent…
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ELIZABETH (N.J.), Sun.: A 15-year-old boy, Michael Monahan, has retracted his admission that he had killed two men in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oil grab goes to court
LONDON, Sun.: Reuter’s Rome correspondent says that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company will begin next month three legal battles…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Two-for-one in Court on Thursday ?
MELBOURNE, Sun. : As the Victorian State Government is prepared to contest the Country Party’s writs challenging the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Police Court Police allege that ex-publication drove under influence
Claiming that he had only seven whiskies during the day, the former licensee of the Burrumbuttock Hotel, Gordon Leigh Dutton, was fined £15 with £7/10/- witness' expenses by Mr. O. J. take, S. M., in Albury Police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Shorts Cut the Corner
Fines of £3/8/- with 12/-costs were imposed on five people, four men and a woman, who cut the corner while…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Out Of Court Valuation Settlements
In the Court of Petty sessions yesterday before Mr. Keith W. Smith, S.M. Hugh Malcolm Eastman, of Old Morago, appealed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Albury Court Yesterday Speedsters Fined
Three men charged with speeding were fined a total of £20/16/. Const. Allen said he checked speed of John O…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Alias Basil Willing Serial Story a thrilling adventure in multiple murder
THE STORY: Jack Duggan, a private detective, was murdered apparently by poison which he may have taken in a drink at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Police report yet on doping of Tarien
SYDNEY, Mon.: Detectives investigating the doping of the Doncaster Handicap winner, Tarien, did not make a report to the A. J. C. today This was stated by the Superintendent of the C. I. B. (Mr. Ramus)…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →This court officer will be missed (By the “Mail’s” court reporter)
After six years as assistant Clerk of Petty Sessions at Albury, Mr. Harry Walker will leave for Cootamundra this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaoled for theft of newspaper
The newspaper which he took at the Bethungra railway station on March 4 was an expensive one for Richard Penn Symons (29),…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police intensify search for missing girl
SYDNEY, Wed.: Police today intensified their search for a 14-years-old schoolgirl, who has been missing from her, home since…
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